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temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Parks/North Carolina/Elk Knob State Park
Elk Knob State Park, North Carolina
State Park in Ashe County, North Carolina45°
65°/42°
Clear·
Feels like 45°·Light air 2 mph NNE
Now. Elk Knob State Park is 45° and clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the north-northeast at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 64° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° by 5 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.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 74°, and the coolest Sunday, near 62°. Rain is likely Sunday (61%) and Monday (52%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:03 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 4:13 AM after midnight. The next new Moon is Saturday, Oct 10. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 38 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
44Air quality
87%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
45feels45
now, clear
Today
Oct 6
6542
UV 7
Wed
Oct 7
7244
UV 7
Thu
Oct 8
7449
UV 7
Fri
Oct 9
7249
UV 6
Sat
Oct 10
6648
12%
UV 6
Sun
Oct 11
6248
61%
Mon
Oct 12
6850
52%
45°
65°42°
72°44°
74°49°
72°49°
66°48°
62°48°
68°50°
As of 3:00 AM in Elk Knob State Park, North Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Elk Knob State Park
Index 44, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, North Ridges (NC), 21 miles off.
44Good
- Ozone44Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Thu Oct 8, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 46, good.
GoodModerate
- 46YesterdayOct 5
- 40TodayOct 6
- 45WedOct 7
- 45ThuOct 8
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Wed 8 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Elk Knob State Park
None in the last 24 hours; 0.44 in over the last 3 days, to Tue 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.44in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Elk Knob State Park, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Wed 8 PM, lowest 10 miles Wed 9 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 6.48 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 3,434 ft
- County
- Ashe County
- State
- North Carolina
- Latitude
- 36.3876° N
- Longitude
- 81.6713° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Elk Knob State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station EW6072EW6072
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.3 mi away/3,282 ft/152 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/13.0 mi away/3,146 ft/288 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Creston 2.8 SWNC-AS-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/3,040 ft/394 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Boone 1SEBOON7
At a cooperative observer's station/12.3 mi away/3,278 ft/156 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Boone 1SE (BOON7), 12.3 miles from here, read 5 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in North Carolina
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Elk Knob State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Cove Creekcommunity, 10 mi
- West Jeffersontown, 10 mi
- Jeffersontown, 11 mi
- Boonetown, 12 mi
- Lansingtown, 12 mi
- Valle Cruciscommunity, 14 mi
- Appalachian Ski Mountainski area, 15 mi
- Foscoecommunity, 17 mi
- Beech Mountainski area, 17 mi
- Beech Mountaintown, 17 mi
- Blowing Rocktown, 18 mi
- Seven Devilstown, 18 mi