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Asheville's Weather
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This page provides information on the current, future, and recent
weather in the vicinity of Asheville, NC. In addition, it
provides some climatic data as well. If you have suggestions
on information you'd like to see linked to this page, feel free to
e-mail suggestions to me: Chris
Bell.
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Precipitation and Fronts |
Wind Chill |

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This map shows the current radar, fronts
positions, and areas of high and low pressure for the United States.
Blue fronts are cold fronts, red fronts are warm fronts, alternating
red and blue fronts are stationary fronts, and purple fronts are
occluded fronts. Click on the image for additional maps. |
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This map shows the current wind chill.
Wind chill is the apparent temperature considering both the
temperature and the wind speed. The key below the image shows
the corresponding wind chill for each color. Click on the
image for additional maps. The weather and climatic maps on
this page courtesy of wunderground.com. |
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Recent and Future Weather
- Twenty-four
hour rainfall totals at sites throughout the Tennessee River
watershed (table)
- NC
AFWS 15 min, 30 min, 1hr, 3hr, 6hr, 12hr, 24hr rainfall totals
(table)
- TN
AFWS 15 min, 30 min, 1hr, 3hr, 6hr, 12hr, 24hr rainfall totals
(table)
- VA
AFWS 15 min, 30 min, 1hr, 3hr, 6hr, 12hr, 24hr rainfall totals
(table)
- KY
AFWS 15 min, 30 min, 1hr, 3hr, 6hr, 12hr, 24hr rainfall totals
(table)
- WV
AFWS 15 min, 30 min, 1hr, 3hr, 6hr, 12hr, 24hr rainfall totals
(table)
- AFWS
rainfall archive (menu driven search engine; all AFWS
rainfall data as originally posted, 2000-present )
- Most
recent precipitation and fronts, U.S. (incredibly cool and
useful image; click image to zoom to regional view;
times are GMT: subtract five hours for US eastern standard
time; all the images linked below are from intellicast.com)
- Seven
precipitation forecasts covering today and tomorrow, U.S.
(an incredibly cool and useful set of images; click image
to zoom to regional view; note that the times are U.S.
eastern standard)
- Most
recent twenty-four hour precipitation totals, U.S. (another
incredibly cool and useful image; click image to zoom to
regional view)
- Most
recent seven day precipitation totals, U.S. (yet another
incredibly cool and useful image; click image to zoom to
regional view)
- Most
recent six hour radar loop, U.S. (yep, another incredibly
cool and useful image; click image to zoom to regional
view)
- Yesterday's
twenty-four hour radar loop, U.S. (uh huh, another
incredibly cool and useful image; click image to zoom to
regional view)
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- Average
rainfall by month, 1950-1995, Asheville, NC (keep in
mind that Asheville is in a rain shadow; compare
Asheville's rainfall with that for the Big East Fork of the
Pigeon in Haywood County, the watershed for the Pigeon River:
Average
rainfall by month, 1949-1950, Big East Fork Pigeon, NC)
- Average
temperature by month, 1961-1990, Asheville, NC
- Average
minimum temperature by month, 1961-1990, Asheville, NC
- Average
maximum temperature by month, 1961-1990, Asheville, NC
- Climatic
averages by month, for stations around Asheville
- Climatic
averages by month, for stations around the world
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