At an airfield/7.5 mi away/95 ft/15 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Weather/North Carolina/Jackson Heights
Now. Jackson Heights is 71° and mostly cloudy at 11 PM. The dew point is 69°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the east at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 65° by 7 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 87°, and the coolest Saturday, near 62°. Rain is likely Saturday (69%). Rain is possible Sunday (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 21 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Jackson Heights, North Carolina.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Lenoir County (NC), 1 mile 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 44 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Fog: visibility falls to 0.9 miles Fri 7 AM, under a mile for 1 hour.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Jackson Heights, North CarolinaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Jackson Heights, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/7.5 mi away/95 ft/15 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station KK4MGJKK4MGJ
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.5 mi away/45 ft/35 ft below here
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TrentonTRTN7
At a river or reservoir gauge/19.3 mi away/13 ft/67 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Kinston 7.0 SWNC-LR-22
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.6 mi away/79 ft/1 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lwr Cstl Plain Tobacco Research STNKNSN7
At a cooperative observer's station/11.0 mi away/56 ft/24 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 7.5 mi from Jackson Heights, North Carolina. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 700 ft; the ceiling is 700 ft; visibility 7 mi.
71.6 F with a dew point of 69.0 F, 92 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 600 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 700 ft.
From the east southeast (110 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Kinston/Stallings, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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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.