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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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Showing nearest 15 stations ordered by distance...        Name ID City State County Network Distance from JEFF Years of Data West Jefferson 0.9 NE NC-AS-8 West Jefferson NC Ashe County CoCoRaHS 0.8 mi 2011 - 2014 West Jefferson 1.2 ESE NC-AS-14 West Jefferson NC Ashe County CoCoRaHS 1.2 mi 2013 - 2016 West Jefferson 1.4 SE NC-AS-23 West Jefferson NC Ashe County CoCoRaHS 1.5 mi 2017 - 2020 Jefferson 2.7 ESE NC-AS-16 Jefferson NC Ashe County CoCoRaHS 2 mi 2013 - 2018 Jefferson 2 E 314496 Jefferson NC Ashe County COOP 2.1 mi 1896 - 2020 Jefferson 2.1 ENE NC-AS-5 Jefferson NC Ashe County CoCoRaHS 2.5 mi 2008 - 2008 West Jefferson 2.3 S NC-AS-7 West Jefferson NC Ashe County CoCoRaHS 3.1 mi 2010 - 2012 Ashe County Airport KGEV Jefferson NC Ashe County AWOS 3.2 mi 2000 - 2020 Glendale Springs 1.5 WSW NC-AS-13 Glendale Springs NC Ashe County CoCoRaHS 5.5 mi 2013 - 2018 Glendale Springs 313455 Glendale Springs NC Ashe County COOP 5.8 mi 1943 - 1993 Idlewild 314385 Idlewild NC Ashe County COOP 6.3 mi 1940 - 1998 Todd 3.6 ENE NC-AS-19 Todd NC Ashe County CoCoRaHS 6.5 mi 2014 - 2019 Todd 4.3 E NC-AS-3 Fleetwood NC Ashe County CoCoRaHS 6.6 mi 2008 - 2008 Todd 2.6 NE NC-AS-10 Todd NC Ashe County CoCoRaHS 7.3 mi 2013 - 2020 Lansing 2.3 W NC-AS-4 Lansing NC Ashe County CoCoRaHS 7.9 mi 2008 - 2008

Current Conditions
Current conditions at JEFF as of Friday, April 10th, 2020 @ 8:45 AM EDT (3 mins ago)
Temperature:	21.2 °F (-6 °C)
Dew point:	calculated at 13.4 °F (-10.3 °C)       Relative humidity: 72%
Wind:	West (288°) at 26 mph with gusts of 41 mph
Pressure:	846.4 mb (24.99 inHg) station pressure

Station Time Weather Temp (F) Dewpoint (F) Humidity (%) Pressure (mb) Wind (mph)

      

» Mt. Jefferson Tower, NC (JEFF) » Hourly Data Retrieval

Hourly observations are the actual observed weather conditions recorded at least once every hour. If you need help, a tutorial is available. To lessen the load on our servers, public queries are limited in the period of record. If you need more data than what is available with the selections below, please request it from the State Climate Office. The first observation for this station is August 14, 2013 The most recent observation for this station is April 10, 2020 Step 1: Retrieve data from the past... (pick one) 1 day            3 days           7 days Check this box to retrieve only regularly scheduled top of the hour observations Step 2: Select the desired parameters. Click here for help. Atmospheric Parameters Unit Height Air Temperature (dry bulb) CelsiusFahrenheitKelvin 2m Air Temperature (hourly average) CelsiusFahrenheitKelvin 2m Dew Point (calculated using instantaneous temp and rh) CelsiusFahrenheitKelvin 2m Heat Index (calculated using instantaneous temp and rh) CelsiusFahrenheitKelvin 2m Wind Chill (calculated using instantaneous temp and wind) CelsiusFahrenheitKelvin 2m Station pressure atmin Hgmm HgkPamillibars 2m Station pressure hourly average atmin Hgmm HgkPamillibars 2m Calculated Sea level pressure estimate atmin Hgmm HgkPamillibars 2m Wind Parameters Unit Height Calculated Log Wind Profile knotskphmphm/s Calculate atft. Wind speed knotskphmphm/s 10m Wind direction degreesdeg & compasscompass 10m Wind speed knotskphmphm/s 6m Wind direction degreesdeg & compasscompass 6m Wind speed (hourly average) knotskphmphm/s 10m Wind speed max for the past hour knotskphmphm/s 10m Time of max wind speed for past hour HHMM 10m Wind direction of maximum wind speed for past hour degreesdeg & compasscompass 10m Wind direction (hourly average) degreesdeg & compasscompass 10m Wind gust knotskphmphm/s 10m Standard deviation of direction degrees 10m Moisture Parameters Unit  Height Relative humidity percent (%) 2m Relative humidity (hourly average) percent (%) 2m Hourly precipitation mmcmin 1m Hourly precipitation from impact sensor mmcmin 2m Soil Parameters Unit Depth Soil temperature hour average CelsiusFahrenheitKelvin 0.1m Soil moisture hour average meters3/meters3 (m3/m3) 0.2m Soil temperature CelsiusFahrenheitKelvin 0.1m Soil moisture meters3/meters3 (m3/m3) 0.2m Solar Radiation Parameters Unit Height Photosynthetically active radiation µmole s-1m-2 2m Photosynthetically active radiation (hour average) µmole s-1m-2 2m Solar radiation Watts/meter2 (W/m2) 2m Solar radiation (hourly average) Watts/meter2 (W/m2) 2m Output format:   Web Page (recommended)Excel Spreadsheetcomma delimitedtab delimited

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