French Broad River At Asheville03451500
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.8 mi away/1,950 ft/179 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/North Carolina/Emma
Coming up. Tomorrow is 27 degrees cooler: a high of 55° after 82° today.
Now. Emma is 61° and partly cloudy at 8 AM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the northwest at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 79° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 44° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:54 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11 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 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 8:00 AM in Emma, North Carolina.
Air quality
Index 41, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Buncombe County (NC), 2 miles off.
Highest 67, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 47, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 9 miles Fri 8 AM.
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The 6 instruments nearest Emma, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
French Broad River At Asheville03451500
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.8 mi away/1,950 ft/179 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station CW9566CW9566
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/2,230 ft/101 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Asheville 8 SSW53877
At a climate reference station/7.7 mi away/2,151 ft/22 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
At an airfield/11.9 mi away/2,169 ft/40 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Asheville 3.4 WNC-BC-214
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/2,136 ft/7 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
National Climatic Data CenterNCCN7
At a cooperative observer's station/1.8 mi away/2,229 ft/100 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 11.9 mi from Emma, North Carolina. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 8:11 AM 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.