North Wilkesboro, NC 28659 Weather

Wilkes County10:05 PM EDT36.20°N, 81.13°W

Current conditions

Clear
49°
Clear
Feels like 49°
High 65° Sunday·Low 39° tonight
WindN 3 mph
Humidity76%
Dew point42°
Visibility10 mi
Cloud cover4%
UV index0 Low
Sunrise7:40 AM
Sunset6:39 PM

Forecast for this hour (no station report in the last two hours)

Forecast

10-day

  • Saturday Night

    Mostly clear, with a low around 39. Northeast wind around 5 mph.

  • Sunday

    Mostly sunny, with a high near 65. Northeast wind around 5 mph.

  • Sunday Night

    Mostly clear, with a low around 37.

National Weather Service forecast updated 1 day ago.

Hourly

Hourly forecast
  1. Now Clear 49°
  2. 11 PM Clear 48°
  3. Sun12 AM Mostly Clear 47°
  4. 1 AM Mostly Clear 46°
  5. 2 AM Mostly Clear 45°
  6. 3 AM Mostly Clear 44°
  7. 4 AM Partly Cloudy 43°
  8. 5 AM Partly Cloudy 43°
  9. 6 AM Mostly Sunny 42°
  10. 7 AM Partly Sunny 40°
  11. 8 AM Partly Sunny 41°
  12. 9 AM Mostly Sunny 44°
  13. 10 AM Mostly Sunny 49°
  14. 11 AM Sunny 55°
  15. 12 PM Sunny 59°
  16. 1 PM Sunny 61°
  17. 2 PM Sunny 63°
  18. 3 PM Sunny 64°
  19. 4 PM Sunny 65°
  20. 5 PM Sunny 64°
  21. 6 PM Clear 62°
  22. 7 PM Clear 58°
  23. 8 PM Clear 54°
  24. 9 PM Clear 51°

10-day forecast

Details
  1. FriOct 23 Sunny Sunny41°68°
  2. TodayOct 24 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny39°63°
  3. SunOct 25 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny37°65°
  4. MonOct 26 Sunny Sunny37°70°
  5. TueOct 27 Sunny Sunny43°72°
  6. WedOct 28 Partly Sunny Partly Sunny44°68°
  7. ThuOct 29 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny44°72°
  8. FriOct 30 Mostly sunny Mostly sunny47°72°
  9. SatOct 31 Sunny Sunny43°64°
  10. SunNov 1 Cloudy Cloudy41°62°

Days after the National Weather Service's seven are MET Norway's outlook, a computer model with no forecaster's review.

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Air quality

Forecast

  • SatGood (38)
  • SunGood (35)
  • MonGood (40)

Wilkes County, NC reporting area. Data from AirNow (EPA and its state, local and tribal partners); preliminary and subject to change.

Sun & moon

Sunrise 7:40 AM
Sunset 6:39 PM
Daylight 10 h 58 min (−2 min 7 s tomorrow)
Waxing Gibbous · 98% lit
Moonrise 5:29 PM Moonset 5:57 AM
Full moon Oct 26 New moon Nov 9

Almanac

Monthly
Normal high / low68° / 42°
Yesterday74° / 38°
Month to date5.52 in (normal 2.94 in)

North Wilkesboro, records since 1955. Normals 1991–2020. Data from NOAA's Regional Climate Centers (ACIS).

Nearby

Forecasters' discussion

From the National Weather Service office in RNK, issued 8 hrs ago

What Has Changed

Cloud cover increased a little this afternoon and again late tonight into Sunday. Lowered temps/dewpoints slightly from NBM.

Key Messages

1) Dry weather through Halloween.

Discussion

KEY MESSAGE 1:Dry through Halloween

Been dealing with stratocu that has been trapped under subsidence inversion in the mountains this morning and sunshine angle getting a little lower taking more time to mix out that inversion thereby keeping the clouds in a little longer. Satellite trends showing these clouds clearing out.

Some models are showing another repeat tonight as moisture around 2-5kft gets trapped under another inversion. So leaned toward more clouds in the Piedmont advancing west to the mountains by dawn. This may affect temps limiting any frost potential.

As high pressure builds overhead Sunday night, not seeing any cloud concerns and should be a fairly good radiational cooling night such that frost is likely to form and may need headlines for the Piedmont/east of the Blue Ridge. Remember the growing season for the mountains ended earlier this month thereby no frost/freeze headlines for them.

The rest of the week keeps a dry pattern in place, though some frontal boundaries should steer some clouds our way at times, but for the most part mostly sunny days are expected.

Model ensembles showing next chance for any showers may come around the 1st-3rd of November.

Aviation

Some MVFR cigs from stratocu affecting LWB but should clear out by 20z. Another potential for high end MVFR to lower end VFR cigs possible again tonight especially east of a ROA/BCB line. Overall keeping the tafs VFR. Could see a bit of fog at LWB late tonight as wind still from the east and should advect fog into LWB. For now have tempo 3sm in case some cloud cover drifts in late.

Winds will generally be from the northeast in the Piedmont and southeast in southeast WV.

Forecast confidence is high.

EXTENDED OUTLOOK...

VFR conditions will persist into next week. Could see some morning fog, but likely will be confined to rivers and lakes, given the dry airmass overhead.

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