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Station Details
Station: JEFF - Mt. Jefferson Tower        Date of First Observation: August 14, 2013
Station Type: ECONET - Tower what is this?         Maintenance Logs
City, State: West Jefferson, NC      County: Ashe County
Latitude: 36.40331°      Longitude: -81.46346°
Elevation: 4608 feet above sea level
Climate Division: NC02 - Northern Mountains
River Basin: New
Supported By: Division of Air Quality
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Current Conditions
Current conditions at JEFF as of Monday, August 19th, 2019 @ 4:45 PM EDT (1 day, 9 hrs, 21 mins ago)
Temperature: 67.6 °F (19.8 °C)
Dew point: calculated at 57.2 °F (14 °C)       Relative humidity: 69%
Wind: Calm with gusts of 2 mph
Pressure: 864.9 mb (25.54 inHg) station pressure


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» Mt. Jefferson Tower, NC (JEFF) » Hourly Data Retrieval
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The first observation for this station is August 14, 2013
The most recent observation for this station is August 19, 2019

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Atmospheric ParametersUnitHeight
Air Temperature (dry bulb)2m
Air Temperature (hourly average)2m
Dew Point (calculated using instantaneous temp and rh)2m
Heat Index (calculated using instantaneous temp and rh)2m
Wind Chill (calculated using instantaneous temp and wind)2m
Station pressure2m
Station pressure hourly average2m
Calculated Sea level pressure estimate2m
Wind ParametersUnitHeight
Calculated Log Wind ProfileCalculate atft.
Wind speed10m
Wind direction10m
Wind speed6m
Wind direction6m
Wind speed (hourly average)10m
Wind speed max for the past hour10m
Time of max wind speed for past hourHHMM 10m
Wind direction of maximum wind speed for past hour10m
Wind direction (hourly average)10m
Wind gust10m
Standard deviation of directiondegrees 10m
Moisture ParametersUnit Height
Relative humiditypercent (%) 2m
Relative humidity (hourly average)percent (%) 2m
Hourly precipitation1m
Hourly precipitation from impact sensor2m
Soil ParametersUnitDepth
Soil temperature hour average 0.1m
Soil moisture hour averagemeters3/meters3 (m3/m3) 0.2m
Soil temperature 0.1m
Soil moisturemeters3/meters3 (m3/m3) 0.2m
Solar Radiation ParametersUnitHeight
Photosynthetically active radiationµmole s-1m-2 2m
Photosynthetically active radiation (hour average)µmole s-1m-2 2m
Solar radiationWatts/meter2 (W/m2) 2m
Solar radiation (hourly average)Watts/meter2 (W/m2) 2m


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