Areal Flood Advisory — Henderson County, NC, Polk County, NC 7:00 AM Areal Flood Advisory — Polk County, NC 7:30 AM Areal Flood Watch 1:00 PM

Polk County, North Carolina, United States

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16°C
Feels like 15°
Rain
▲ 19°  /  ▼ 12°
Wind
8 mph N
Humidity
98%
Dew Point
16°
Pressure
28.70 inHg
Visibility
2 mi
UV Index
0.0
Cloud Cover
97%
Sunrise
7:30 AM
Sunset
6:59 PM
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WeatherAI™ Analysis

WeatherAI Analysis: Polk County is currently rain at 16°C. Precipitation is likely — peak probability 90% around 11 PM. Sunrise: 7:30AM · Sunset: 6:59PM.

31 AQI · Good Dominant: O3 Air Quality
Hourly Forecast · Next 24 Hours
Now
16°
83%
11 PM
16°
90%
12 AM
17°
90%
1 AM
17°
90%
2 AM
18°
90%
3 AM
18°
90%
4 AM
19°
90%
5 AM
18°
81%
6 AM
17°
70%
7 AM
16°
41%
8 AM
16°
10%
9 AM
17°
10%
10 AM
17°
10%
11 AM
17°
5%
12 PM
18°
15%
1 PM
19°
15%
2 PM
19°
5%
3 PM
19°
5%
4 PM
19°
5%
5 PM
19°
3%
6 PM
18°
3%
7 PM
18°
3%
8 PM
18°
3%
9 PM
17°
3%
7-Day Forecast
Tonight
19° 12°
Rain, 83% chance.
Sun
20° 16°
Partly Cloudy with a 90% chance of rain.
Mon
28° 16°
Clear.
Tue
31° 14°
Mostly Clear.
Wed
33° 17°
Clear.
Thu
30° 16°
Clear.
Fri
28° 14°
Clear.
TimeTempConditionsPrecipWindHumidity
Now 16° Rain 83% 8 mph N 98%
11 PM 16° Rain 90% 7 mph N 98%
12 AM 17° Heavy Rain 90% 5 mph NNE 98%
1 AM 17° Haze 90% 5 mph ENE 98%
2 AM 18° Heavy Rain 90% 6 mph E 98%
3 AM 18° Heavy Rain 90% 6 mph SE 98%
4 AM 19° Heavy Rain 90% 7 mph SE 98%
5 AM 18° Heavy Rain 81% 6 mph SSE 97%
6 AM 17° Mostly Cloudy 70% 5 mph S 95%
7 AM 16° Mostly Cloudy 41% 6 mph SSW 93%
8 AM 16° Partly Cloudy 10% 7 mph SSW 90%
9 AM 17° Partly Cloudy 10% 9 mph SSW 84%
10 AM 17° Mostly Clear 10% 10 mph SSW 79%
11 AM 17° Mostly Clear 5% 10 mph SSW 76%
12 PM 18° Mostly Clear 15% 11 mph SSW 76%
1 PM 19° Partly Cloudy 15% 12 mph SW 76%
2 PM 19° Mostly Cloudy 5% 12 mph SW 75%
3 PM 19° Mostly Cloudy 5% 11 mph SW 76%
4 PM 19° Mostly Cloudy 5% 11 mph SW 75%
5 PM 19° Mostly Cloudy 3% 10 mph SW 77%
6 PM 18° Mostly Cloudy 3% 8 mph SW 79%
7 PM 18° Mostly Cloudy 3% 7 mph SW 81%
8 PM 18° Partly Cloudy 3% 7 mph SW 80%
9 PM 17° Partly Cloudy 3% 7 mph SW 80%
15-Day Forecast
Today
10/10
Rain
83%
12°
19°
Sun
10/11
Partly Cloudy
90%
16°
20°
Mon
10/12
Clear
3%
16°
28°
Tue
10/13
Mostly Clear
3%
14°
31°
Wed
10/14
Clear
8%
17°
33°
Thu
10/15
Clear
16%
16°
30°
Fri
10/16
Clear
17%
14°
28°
Sat
10/17
Clear
17%
2°
21°
Sun
10/18
Drizzle
44%
-1°
16°
Mon
10/19
Drizzle
44%
-1°
17°
Tue
10/20
Clear
21%
1°
20°
Wed
10/21
Drizzle
60%
7°
22°
Thu
10/22
Clear
60%
8°
22°
Fri
10/23
Drizzle
60%
8°
22°
Sat
10/24
Drizzle
60%
8°
22°
31
Good
U.S. Air Quality Index · Dominant: O3
50 100 150 200

Air quality is satisfactory and poses little or no health risk.

Pollutant Breakdown · Today
PM2.5
Fine particulate matter
22 AQI 3.9 µg/m³
O3
Ground-level ozone
Dominant
31 AQI 34 ppb
3-Day Outlook
DayAQICategoryO₃PM2.5
Today 31 Good 31 22
Mon 37 Good 37 8
Tue 43 Good 43 31
About the Air Quality Index
0–50 Good
51–100 Moderate
101–150 Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups
151–200 Unhealthy
201–300 Very Unhealthy
301–500 Hazardous

The U.S. AQI runs 0–500. The overall value equals the highest individual pollutant sub-index, and the dominant pollutant is the one driving it. PM2.5 (fine particles) is reported in µg/m³ and ozone (O3) in ppb. Forecast source: NWS NAQFC.

1000850700500400300250200150100 -40-30-20-10010203040 0.41247101624 LCL0°C Temperature (°C) Pressure (hPa)
Temp Dewpoint Parcel (SB) CAPE CIN Dry adiabat Moist adiabat Mixing ratio
RAP
Valid Sun Oct 11, 01:00'Z' · F0 · 130 (13 km CONUS/NA)
Hodograph · kt
10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 SM
0–1 1–3 3–6 6–9 km
Instability
SBCAPE0 J/kg
MLCAPE31 J/kg
MUCAPE367 J/kg
SBCIN—
MLCIN0 J/kg
Lifted Index7.0
Kinematics
0–6 km Shear50 kt
0–1 km Shear37 kt
Eff. Shear34 kt
0–1 km SRH416
0–3 km SRH627
Eff. SRH185
Storm Motion198° @ 30 kt
0–1 km EHI0.0
Composite Parameters
Sig. Tornado0.0
STP (eff)0.0
Supercell1.2
K-Index39.2
Thermo & Levels
PWAT2.11 in
0–3 km LR2.8 °C/km
700–500 LR5.9 °C/km
Total Totals46.7
LCL968 hPa
LFC—
EL—
Freezing Lvl14,380 ft