Croatan RAWSNPTN7
A remote fire weather station/0.4 mi away/30 ft/3 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/North Carolina/Newport
Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow morning, from about 9 AM, the chance peaking at 58% around 3 PM.
Now. Newport is 69° and mostly cloudy at 1 AM. The dew point is 69°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 81° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 63° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 72°, and the coolest Sunday, near 65°. Rain is likely tomorrow (69%). Rain is possible Sunday (47%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:32 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:39 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 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Newport, North Carolina.
Air quality
Index 26, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Carteret County (NC), 12 miles 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 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Newport, North CarolinaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Newport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Croatan RAWSNPTN7
A remote fire weather station/0.4 mi away/30 ft/3 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW7648GW7648
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/29 ft/2 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/7.4 mi away/30 ft/3 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Newport 0.5 NNC-CR-24
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/28 ft/1 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Newport/Morehead City WfoMHXN7
At a cooperative observer's station/1.4 mi away/20 ft/7 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 7.4 mi from Newport, North Carolina. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:07 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Sky obscured at 200 ft; the ceiling is 200 ft; visibility 3/4 mi.
68.0 F with a dew point of 68.0 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 200 ft.
Calm.
The full report of Cherry_Point_Mcas, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Newport/Morehead City Wfo (MHXN7), 1.4 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 23:58. 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.