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temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Parks/North Carolina/Grandfather Mountain State Park
Grandfather Mountain State Park, North Carolina
State Park in Avery County, North Carolina42°
61°/37°
Clear·
Feels like 41°·Light air 3 mph N
Now. Grandfather Mountain State Park is 42° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the north at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 59° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° 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 71°, and the coolest Sunday, near 58°. Rain is likely Sunday (63%) and Monday (51%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:04 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 4:14 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 39 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
44Air quality
99%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
42feels41
now, clear
Today
Oct 6
6137
UV 7
Wed
Oct 7
6739
UV 7
Thu
Oct 8
7143
UV 7
Fri
Oct 9
6844
UV 7
Sat
Oct 10
6243
13%
UV 6
Sun
Oct 11
5842
63%
Mon
Oct 12
6444
51%
42°
61°37°
67°39°
71°43°
68°44°
62°43°
58°42°
64°44°
As of 2:00 AM in Grandfather Mountain State Park, North Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Grandfather Mountain State Park
Index 44, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, North Ridges (NC), 1 mile off.
44Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)-18.8 mi
- Ozone44Good7 ppb11.1 mi
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 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Wed 8 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Grandfather Mountain State Park
None in the last 24 hours; 0.06 in over the last 3 days, to Tue 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.06in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Grandfather Mountain State Park, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Wed 8 PM, lowest 9 miles Wed 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 4.6 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 4,869 ft
- County
- Avery County
- State
- North Carolina
- Latitude
- 36.1079° N
- Longitude
- 81.8259° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Grandfather Mountain State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station EW6072EW6072
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.8 mi away/3,282 ft/1,587 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/11.7 mi away/3,146 ft/1,723 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Grandfather MtnLNNN7
At a cooperative observer's station/0.9 mi away/5,262 ft/393 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Seven Devils 0.1 ENC-WT-48
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/4,028 ft/841 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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 Grandfather Mountain State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Grandfather Villagevillage, 1 mi
- Grandfather Mountainfeature, 1 mi
- Sugar Mountainski area, 2 mi
- Sugar Mountainvillage, 3 mi
- Seven Devilstown, 3 mi
- Linvillecommunity, 4 mi
- Foscoecommunity, 4 mi
- Banner Elktown, 5 mi
- Newlandtown, 6 mi
- Valle Cruciscommunity, 7 mi
- Beech Mountaintown, 7 mi
- Beech Mountainski area, 8 mi