Watauga River Near Sugar Grove03479000
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.6 mi away/2,608 ft/116 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/North Carolina/Cove Creek
Now. Cove Creek is 65° and partly cloudy at 11 PM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 60° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 78°, and the coolest Saturday, near 51°. Rain is likely Saturday (53%). Rain is possible tomorrow (34%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 18 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Cove Creek, North Carolina.
Air quality
Index 34, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, North Ridges (NC), 12 miles off.
Highest 71, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 42, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 3 miles Fri 9 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 5 instruments nearest Cove Creek, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Watauga River Near Sugar Grove03479000
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.6 mi away/2,608 ft/116 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW6072EW6072
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.4 mi away/3,282 ft/558 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/9.1 mi away/3,146 ft/422 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Boone 5.2 NNWNC-WT-72
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.6 mi away/3,995 ft/1,271 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Flat Springs 1EFTSN7
At a cooperative observer's station/7.6 mi away/3,261 ft/537 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 9.1 mi from Cove Creek, North Carolina. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:15 PM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
No cloud reported; visibility 10 mi or more.
63.5 F with a dew point of 63.5 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground.
At 3,146 ft above sea level, 11 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 26.67 inHg and the temperature at 47.8 F; the station's altimeter setting of 30.19 inHg means its barometer reads 26.91 inHg; it reports 63.5 F, 15.7 F warmer than standard.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Flat Springs 1E (FTSN7), 7.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.