Citizen station FW8439FW8439
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.9 mi away/3,742 ft/12 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Weather/North Carolina/Seven Devils
Special Weather Statement, in full
Alert. A Special Weather Statement is in force for Seven Devils until 8 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 26 degrees cooler: a high of 48° after 74° today.
Now. Seven Devils is 55° and partly cloudy at 5 AM. The dew point is 57°, so the air feels a little humid. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 72° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° by 7 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 Wednesday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 48°. Rain is likely tomorrow (63%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:50 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 day is 11 hours 16 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Seven Devils, North Carolina.
Air quality
Index 34, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, North Ridges (NC), 3 miles off.
Highest 71, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 34, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Fog: visibility falls to 0.4 miles Sat 12 AM, under a mile for 3 hours.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Seven Devils, North CarolinaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Seven Devils, 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
Citizen station FW8439FW8439
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.9 mi away/3,742 ft/12 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Watauga River Near Sugar Grove03479000
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.3 mi away/2,608 ft/1,122 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/9.5 mi away/3,146 ft/584 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Seven Devils 0.1 ENC-WT-48
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/4,028 ft/298 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Banner ElkBELN7
At a cooperative observer's station/3.8 mi away/3,704 ft/26 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 9.5 mi from Seven Devils, North Carolina. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:55 AM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
No cloud reported; visibility 1 mi.
54.7 F with a dew point of 54.7 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground.
At 3,146 ft above sea level, 11 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 26.67 inHg and the temperature at 47.8 F; the station's altimeter setting of 30.14 inHg means its barometer reads 26.87 inHg; it reports 54.7 F, 6.9 F warmer than standard.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Banner Elk (BELN7), 3.8 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.