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Station Details
Station: MITC - Mount Mitchell State Park        Date of First Observation: June 26, 2008
Station Type: ECONET - Tower what is this?         Maintenance Logs
City, State: Burnsville, NC      County: Yancey County
Latitude: 35.7585°      Longitude: -82.2712°
Elevation: 6200 feet above sea level
Climate Division: NC01 - Southern Mountains
River Basin: Nolichucky
Supported By: NC DENR Air Quality
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Current Conditions
Current conditions at MITC as of Monday, April 6th, 2020 @ 8:00 AM EDT (3 mins ago)
Temperature: 43.2 °F (6.2 °C)
Dew point: calculated at 35.5 °F (1.9 °C)       Relative humidity: 74%
Wind: Northeast (40°) at 18 mph with gusts of 20 mph
Pressure: 813.4 mb (24.02 inHg) station pressure


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» Mount Mitchell State Park, NC (MITC) » Hourly Data Retrieval
Hourly observations are the actual observed weather conditions recorded at least once every hour.

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The first observation for this station is June 26, 2008
The most recent observation for this station is April 6, 2020

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Atmospheric ParametersUnitHeight
Air Temperature (dry bulb)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
Calculated Sea level pressure estimate2m
Wind ParametersUnitHeight
Calculated Log Wind ProfileCalculate atft.
Wind speed10m
Wind direction10m
Wind speed6m
Wind direction6m
Wind gust10m
Moisture ParametersUnit Height
Relative humiditypercent (%) 2m
Hourly precipitation1m
Hourly precipitation from impact sensor2m
Soil ParametersUnitDepth
Soil temperature 0.01m
Soil moisturemeters3/meters3 (m3/m3) 0.02m
Solar Radiation ParametersUnitHeight
Photosynthetically active radiationµmole s-1m-2 2m
Solar radiationWatts/meter2 (W/m2) 2m


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