High Wind Warning — Madison, NC, Yancey, NC, Mitchell, NC, Swain, NC, Haywood, NC, Buncombe, NC, Graham, NC, Northern Jackson, NC, Macon, NC, Southern Jackson, NC, Transylvania, NC 7:00 AM Areal Flood Watch 1:00 PM

Yancey County, North Carolina, United States

Last updated: 9:36 PM CDT  ·  Refresh
14°C
Feels like 12°
Rain
▲ 19°  /  ▼ 10°
Wind
13 mph ESE
Humidity
95%
Dew Point
13°
Pressure
26.85 inHg
Visibility
3 mi
UV Index
0.0
Cloud Cover
89%
Sunrise
7:31 AM
Sunset
7:00 PM
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WeatherAI™ Analysis

WeatherAI Analysis: Yancey County is currently rain at 15°C. Precipitation is likely — peak probability 90% around 10 PM. Sunrise: 7:31AM · Sunset: 7:00PM.

43 AQI · Good Dominant: O3 Air Quality
Hourly Forecast · Next 24 Hours
Now
14°
90%
11 PM
17°
90%
12 AM
17°
90%
1 AM
17°
90%
2 AM
18°
90%
3 AM
18°
90%
4 AM
18°
90%
5 AM
16°
90%
6 AM
16°
87%
7 AM
16°
66%
8 AM
16°
16%
9 AM
17°
39%
10 AM
17°
26%
11 AM
17°
26%
12 PM
17°
30%
1 PM
20°
40%
2 PM
19°
50%
3 PM
18°
50%
4 PM
18°
50%
5 PM
16°
64%
6 PM
16°
64%
7 PM
16°
64%
8 PM
16°
64%
9 PM
15°
65%
7-Day Forecast
Tonight
19° 10°
Rain, 90% chance.
Sun
21° 13°
Partly Cloudy with a 90% chance of rain.
Mon
23° 12°
Mostly Cloudy with a 49% chance of rain.
Tue
28° 12°
Clear.
Wed
31° 15°
Clear.
Thu
28° 14°
Clear.
Fri
27° 11°
Clear with a 28% chance of rain.
TimeTempConditionsPrecipWindHumidity
Now 14° Rain 90% 13 mph ESE 95%
11 PM 17° Rain 90% 13 mph ESE 96%
12 AM 17° Heavy Rain 90% 11 mph ESE 96%
1 AM 17° Mostly Cloudy 90% 9 mph ESE 97%
2 AM 18° Mostly Cloudy 90% 8 mph ESE 97%
3 AM 18° Mostly Cloudy 90% 7 mph ESE 97%
4 AM 18° Mostly Cloudy 90% 6 mph SE 98%
5 AM 16° Mostly Cloudy 90% 6 mph SE 97%
6 AM 16° Mostly Cloudy 87% 6 mph SSE 96%
7 AM 16° Partly Cloudy 66% 5 mph SSE 94%
8 AM 16° Partly Cloudy 16% 6 mph S 90%
9 AM 17° Partly Cloudy 39% 7 mph SSW 84%
10 AM 17° Mostly Clear 26% 8 mph SSW 77%
11 AM 17° Mostly Clear 26% 7 mph SW 76%
12 PM 17° Partly Cloudy 30% 7 mph SW 76%
1 PM 20° Mostly Cloudy 40% 7 mph WSW 76%
2 PM 19° Mostly Cloudy 50% 8 mph WSW 80%
3 PM 18° Mostly Cloudy 50% 8 mph WSW 86%
4 PM 18° Mostly Cloudy 50% 8 mph W 92%
5 PM 16° Overcast 64% 8 mph W 95%
6 PM 16° Overcast 64% 9 mph W 96%
7 PM 16° Overcast 64% 8 mph W 96%
8 PM 16° Rain 64% 10 mph W 96%
9 PM 15° Rain 65% 10 mph W 96%
15-Day Forecast
Today
10/10
Rain
90%
10°
19°
Sun
10/11
Partly Cloudy
90%
13°
21°
Mon
10/12
Mostly Cloudy
49%
12°
23°
Tue
10/13
Clear
16%
12°
28°
Wed
10/14
Clear
16%
15°
31°
Thu
10/15
Clear
16%
14°
28°
Fri
10/16
Clear
28%
11°
27°
Sat
10/17
Snow
28%
-2°
18°
Sun
10/18
Clear
44%
-4°
12°
Mon
10/19
Clear
44%
-3°
18°
Tue
10/20
Clear
21%
0°
21°
Wed
10/21
Drizzle
60%
4°
22°
Thu
10/22
Drizzle
60%
6°
21°
Fri
10/23
Drizzle
60%
5°
21°
Sat
10/24
Drizzle
60%
5°
20°
43
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
13 AQI 2.4 µg/m³
O3
Ground-level ozone
Dominant
43 AQI 47 ppb
3-Day Outlook
DayAQICategoryO₃PM2.5
Today 43 Good 43 13
Mon 43 Good 43 6
Tue 45 Good 45 27
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 90 SM
0–1 1–3 3–6 6–9 km
Instability
SBCAPE0 J/kg
MLCAPE21 J/kg
MUCAPE199 J/kg
SBCIN—
MLCIN0 J/kg
Lifted Index6.4
Kinematics
0–6 km Shear48 kt
0–1 km Shear36 kt
Eff. Shear27 kt
0–1 km SRH479
0–3 km SRH665
Eff. SRH118
Storm Motion195° @ 30 kt
0–1 km EHI0.0
Composite Parameters
Sig. Tornado0.0
STP (eff)0.0
Supercell0.3
K-Index33.0
Thermo & Levels
PWAT1.70 in
0–3 km LR3.5 °C/km
700–500 LR5.6 °C/km
Total Totals39.9
LCL894 hPa
LFC—
EL—
Freezing Lvl12,293 ft