Citizen station FW8394FW8394
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.3 mi away/92 ft/58 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Weather/North Carolina/Chinquapin
Coming up. Tomorrow is 21 degrees cooler: a high of 65° after 86° today.
Now. Chinquapin is 68° and fog at 2 AM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the south-southwest at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 60° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 71°, and the coolest Sunday, near 63°. Rain is likely tomorrow (67%). Rain is possible Sunday (37%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:35 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:43 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The day is 11 hours 18 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Chinquapin, North Carolina.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Lenoir County (NC), 30 miles off.
Highest 58, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 46, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 33 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 5 miles Sat 6 AM.
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The 5 instruments nearest Chinquapin, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.3 miles away.
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Citizen station FW8394FW8394
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.3 mi away/92 ft/58 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/11.7 mi away/95 ft/61 ft above here
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BurgawBKIN7
At a river or reservoir gauge/21.6 mi away/23 ft/11 ft below here
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measured daily2 instruments
Chinquapin 3.1 ESENC-DP-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.3 mi away/59 ft/25 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WallaceWCEN7
At a cooperative observer's station/12.0 mi away/23 ft/11 ft below here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 11.7 mi from Chinquapin, North Carolina. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:07 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 100 ft; the ceiling is 100 ft; visibility 1/4 mi.
68.0 F with a dew point of 66.2 F, 94 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 100 ft.
From the northeast (40 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
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Snow on the ground
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.