At an airfield/2.1 mi away/108 ft/6 ft above here
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Weather/North Carolina/Elroy
Coming up. Rain is likely late tonight, from about 3 AM (50%).
Now. Elroy is 70° and overcast at 1 AM. The dew point is 69°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the east-southeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 87° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 58° by 8 AM, with some cloud. 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 62°. Rain is likely tomorrow (69%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:35 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:42 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 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Elroy, North Carolina.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Lenoir County (NC), 17 miles off.
Highest 58, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 47, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 39 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Fog: visibility falls to 0.3 miles Fri 4 AM, under a mile for 2 hours.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 5 instruments nearest Elroy, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/2.1 mi away/108 ft/6 ft above here
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Goldsboro RAWSGBON7
A remote fire weather station/8.9 mi away/82 ft/20 ft below here
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Citizen station EW7271EW7271
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.5 mi away/137 ft/35 ft above here
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measured daily2 instruments
Goldsboro 4.2 SENC-WY-23
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/103 ft/1 ft above here
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Goldsboro AgGOLN7
At a cooperative observer's station/7.7 mi away/121 ft/19 ft above here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 2.1 mi from Elroy, North Carolina. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:10 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 600 ft; the ceiling is 600 ft; visibility 9 mi.
71.6 F with a dew point of 69.8 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 600 ft.
From the east southeast (120 degrees) at 6 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.