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In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/861 ft/13 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Weather/North Carolina/Lawndale
Coming up. Tomorrow is 23 degrees cooler: a high of 60° after 83° today.
Now. Lawndale is 76° and clear at 12 PM. The dew point is 68°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the southwest at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 83° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° by 8 AM, with some cloud. 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 Tuesday, near 71°, and the coolest Sunday, near 59°. Rain is likely tomorrow (64%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:50 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:57 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 18 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 PM in Lawndale, North Carolina.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Lincoln County (NC), 20 miles off.
Highest 67, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 45, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lawndale, North CarolinaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Lawndale, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
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Citizen station FW2516FW2516
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/861 ft/13 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/11.2 mi away/846 ft/2 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Raingage At Fire Station 56 At Ramsey353459081334545
At a fire lookout or ranger station/11.7 mi away/1,291 ft/443 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Shelby 3.5 NNC-CV-26
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.5 mi away/881 ft/33 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CasarCASN7
At a cooperative observer's station/6.3 mi away/1,043 ft/195 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 11.2 mi from Lawndale, North Carolina. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
77.7 F with a dew point of 68.0 F, 72 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,300 ft up.
From the west southwest (250 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Shelby_Muni_Arpt, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Casar (CASN7), 6.3 miles from here, read 10 Oct, 08:00. 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.