At an airfield/4.5 mi away/1,188 ft/101 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Weather/North Carolina/Mountain View
Mountain View, North Carolina
Community in Catawba County, North Carolina67°
84°/62°
Clear·
Feels like 67°·Calm 0 mph SSW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 24 degrees cooler: a high of 60° after 84° today.
Now. Mountain View is 67° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 83° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 49° 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. Air quality is moderate (index 51): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 71°, and the coolest Sunday, near 59°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:49 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:55 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 17 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
51Air quality
89%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
67feels67
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8462
20%
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6048
29%
14mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
5940
12mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6440
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
7144
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
7146
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
7046
UV 6
67°
84°62°
60°48°
59°40°
64°40°
71°44°
71°46°
70°46°
As of 1:00 AM in Mountain View, North Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Mountain View
Index 51, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Catawba County (NC), 5 miles off.
51Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)51Moderate3.4 mi
- Ozone-12 ppb17.3 mi
The days ahead
Highest 67, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 52, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 52YesterdayOct 15
- 67TodayOct 16
- 35SatOct 17
- 37SunOct 18
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Mountain View
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Mountain View, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Mountain View, North CarolinaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Mountain View, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Rank363of 2,255
Citizen station DW5595DW5595
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.2 mi away/982 ft/105 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Raingage At Fire Station 56 At Ramsey353459081334545
At a fire lookout or ranger station/13.0 mi away/1,291 ft/204 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hickory 4.8 SWNC-CT-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.3 mi away/974 ft/113 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Rhodhiss Hydro PlantRHON7
At a cooperative observer's station/7.7 mi away/1,020 ft/67 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Hickory_Regional_(ASOS), drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 4.5 mi from Mountain View, North Carolina. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in North Carolina
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Mountain View
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Brookfordtown, 2 mi
- Long Viewtown, 3 mi
- Hickorycity, 4 mi
- Hildebrantown, 4 mi
- Icardcommunity, 6 mi
- Northlakescommunity, 7 mi
- Rhodhisstown, 7 mi
- St. Stephenscommunity, 8 mi
- Newtoncity, 8 mi
- Conovercity, 9 mi
- Granite Fallstown, 9 mi
- Connelly Springstown, 9 mi