Citizen station GW0648GW0648
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/2,073 ft/45 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Weather/North Carolina/Horse Shoe
Coming up. Tomorrow is 27 degrees cooler: a high of 54° after 81° today.
Now. Horse Shoe is 60° and fog at 9 AM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 79° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° by 8 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 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:54 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:01 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 AM in Horse Shoe, North Carolina.
Air quality
Index 41, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Buncombe County (NC), 17 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 5 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 5 miles Sat 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Horse Shoe, North CarolinaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Horse Shoe, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station GW0648GW0648
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/2,073 ft/45 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Asheville 13 S53878
At a climate reference station/4.3 mi away/2,103 ft/15 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Backlund Hort. Nr FletcherFLTN7
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.9 mi away/2,067 ft/51 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/5.9 mi away/2,169 ft/51 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Horse Shoe 1.0 SSENC-HN-17
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/2,300 ft/182 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Fletcher 3 WFLEN7
At a cooperative observer's station/5.5 mi away/2,047 ft/71 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 5.9 mi from Horse Shoe, 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.