At a river or reservoir gauge/6.5 mi away/2,651 ft/1,456 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Parks/North Carolina/Lake James State Park
Lake James State Park, North Carolina
State Park in Burke County, North Carolina57°
73°/53°
Clear·
Feels like 57°·Calm 1 mph N
Now. Lake James State Park is 57° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 54°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 72° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 53° 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 85°, and the coolest Sunday, near 70°. Rain is likely Sunday (68%). Rain is possible Monday (48%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:04 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 4:15 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
6Air quality
92%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
57feels57
now, clear
Today
Oct 6
7353
UV 7
Wed
Oct 7
8051
UV 7
Thu
Oct 8
8556
UV 7
Fri
Oct 9
8057
UV 6
Sat
Oct 10
7456
14%
UV 6
Sun
Oct 11
7056
68%
Mon
Oct 12
7757
48%
57°
73°53°
80°51°
85°56°
80°57°
74°56°
70°56°
77°57°
As of 1:00 AM in Lake James State Park, North Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Lake James State Park
Index 6, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Caldwell County (NC), 22 miles off.
6Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)-15.9 mi
- Ozone6Good9 ppb15.9 mi
The days ahead
Highest 52, moderate, Thu Oct 8, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 18, good.
GoodModerate
- 18YesterdayOct 5
- 40TodayOct 6
- 50WedOct 7
- 52ThuOct 8
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Wed 8 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Lake James State Park
None in the last 24 hours; 1.05 in over the last 3 days, to Tue 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 1.05in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Lake James State Park, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Wed 8 PM, lowest 10 miles Tue 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 5.92 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,195 ft
- County
- Burke County
- State
- North Carolina
- Latitude
- 35.7493° N
- Longitude
- 81.8554° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Lake James State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station FW8634FW8634
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.5 mi away/1,360 ft/165 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/14.6 mi away/1,270 ft/75 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
BridgewaterBRWN7
At a cooperative observer's station/1.1 mi away/1,100 ft/95 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Morganton 8.5 WNWNC-BK-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.6 mi away/1,258 ft/63 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in North Carolina
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Lake James State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Glen Alpinetown, 4 mi
- Nebocommunity, 4 mi
- Morgantoncity, 9 mi
- Salemcommunity, 9 mi
- Marioncity, 9 mi
- West Marioncommunity, 11 mi
- Glenwoodcommunity, 12 mi
- Drexeltown, 14 mi
- Gamewelltown, 16 mi
- Valdesetown, 17 mi
- Spruce Pinetown, 17 mi
- Rutherford Collegetown, 18 mi