Raingage At Fire Station 2 At Gastonia351643081112145
At a fire lookout or ranger station/2.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/North Carolina/Dallas
Now. Dallas is 69° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 63° by 6 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 85°, and the coolest Sunday, near 59°. Rain is possible Saturday (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 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Dallas, North Carolina.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Lincoln County (NC), 12 miles off.
Highest 67, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 51, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 28 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Dallas, North CarolinaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Dallas, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Raingage At Fire Station 2 At Gastonia351643081112145
At a fire lookout or ranger station/2.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW9660EW9660
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.7 mi away/824 ft/58 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/8.1 mi away/801 ft/35 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Dallas 0.3 NNC-GS-77
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/791 ft/25 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
GastoniaGTAN7
At a cooperative observer's station/3.7 mi away/738 ft/28 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.1 mi from Dallas, North Carolina. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:54 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
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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.