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Station Details
Station: LAKE - Lake Wheeler Rd Field Lab        Date of First Observation: May 12, 1982
Station Type: ECONET - Tower what is this?         Maintenance Logs
City, State: Raleigh, NC      County: Wake County
Latitude: 35.72816°      Longitude: -78.67981°
Elevation: 382 feet above sea level
Climate Division: NC04 - CENTRAL PIEDMONT
River Basin: Upper Neuse
Soil Texture: loamy sand
Supported By: NC Agricultural Research Service
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Current Conditions
Current conditions at LAKE as of Monday, August 3rd, 2020 @ 11:20 PM EDT (2 mins ago)
Temperature: 72.1 °F (22.3 °C)
Dew point: calculated at 70.1 °F (21.2 °C)       Relative humidity: 93%
Wind: Northeast (67°) at 7 mph with gusts of 9 mph
Pressure: 998.1 mb (29.47 inHg) station pressure


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» Lake Wheeler Rd Field Lab, NC (LAKE) » 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 May 12, 1982
The most recent observation for this station is August 3, 2020

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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 temperature from multi-depth probe 0.1m
Soil temperature from multi-depth probe 0.2m
Soil temperature from multi-depth probe 0.3m
Soil temperature from multi-depth probe 0.4m
Soil moisturemeters3/meters3 (m3/m3) 0.2m
Calculated Plant Available Water What is This? cm3 available water / cm3 soil 0.2m
Calculated Saturation Index What is This? cm3 water / cm3 pore space 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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