Hot SpringsHTSN7
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.5 mi away/1,306 ft/75 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/North Carolina/Hot Springs
Coming up. Tomorrow is 26 degrees cooler: a high of 57° after 83° today.
Now. Hot Springs is 65° and mostly cloudy at 7 AM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the southwest at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 82° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 7 AM, under cloud. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. Rain is likely tomorrow (79%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:55 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 7:00 AM in Hot Springs, North Carolina.
Air quality
Index 2, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Haywood County (NC), 25 miles off.
Highest 58, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 33, 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 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 5 miles Sat 12 AM.
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The 6 instruments nearest Hot Springs, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
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Hot SpringsHTSN7
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.5 mi away/1,306 ft/75 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW2588FW2588
In a volunteer observer's own ground/24.7 mi away/2,221 ft/840 ft above here
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Asheville 8 SSW53877
At a climate reference station/30.6 mi away/2,151 ft/770 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
At an airfield/36.0 mi away/2,169 ft/788 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hot SpringsHTSN7
At a cooperative observer's station/0.5 mi away/1,339 ft/42 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Marshall 10.7 NNWNC-MS-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.0 mi away/1,800 ft/419 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 36.0 mi from Hot Springs, North Carolina. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 6:54 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Hot Springs (HTSN7), 0.5 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.