Dense Fog for the Center of the Nation; Severe Thunderstorms Across the South; Parade of Pacific Storms Continue

Series of Pacific storms will continue to significantly impact portions of the West through this last weekend of 2024; Strong winds, high surf, heavy lower elevation rain and heavy mountain snow expected. Across the Plains, low visibility and dense fog will make for travel difficulties as warmer air lifts north. This will fuel severe thunderstorms across several southern states on Saturday. Read More >

U.S. Department of Commerce
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration

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CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA
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HOURLY OBSERVATIONS TABLE
HICKORY REGIONAL AIRPORT (03810)
HICKORY , NC
(01/2010)

National Climatic Data Center
Federal Building
151 Patton Avenue
Asheville, North Carolina 28801

Elevation: 1171 ft. above sea level
Latitude: 35.741
Longitude: -81.390
Data Version: VER2

Date	Time (LST)	Station Type	Sky Conditions	Visibility (SM)	Weather Type	Dry Bulb Temp		Wet Bulb Temp		Dew Point Temp		Rel Humd %	Wind Speed (MPH)	Wind Dir	Wind Gusts (MPH)	Station Pressure (in. hg)	Press Tend	Net 3-hr Chg (mb)	Sea Level Pressure (in. hg)	Report Type	Precip. Total (in)	Alti- meter (in. hg)
Date	Time (LST)	Station Type	Sky Conditions	Visibility (SM)	Weather Type	(F)	(C)	(F)	(C)	(F)	(C)	Rel Humd %	Wind Speed (MPH)	Wind Dir	Wind Gusts (MPH)	Station Pressure (in. hg)	Press Tend	Net 3-hr Chg (mb)	Sea Level Pressure (in. hg)	Report Type	Precip. Total (in)	Alti- meter (in. hg)
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23
29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29	0053 0153 0253 0353 0453 0553 0653 0753 0853 0953 1053 1153 1253 1353 1453 1553 1643 1649 1650 1703 1715 1729 1751 1753 1837 1847 1853 1931 1947 1953 2005 2012 2053 2106 2113 2153 2200 2207 2216 2225 2232 2246 2253 2255 2320 2353	12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12	CLR CLR CLR CLR CLR CLR CLR CLR CLR FEW120 OVC110 OVC100 OVC100 OVC095 FEW090 OVC042 OVC026 OVC024 FEW016 OVC024 VV014 VV006 VV002 VV002 VV002 OVC004 SCT004 OVC010 FEW004 OVC012 SCT004 OVC008 VV004 OVC004 VV005 VV004 VV002 VV003 BKN003 OVC007 OVC004 BKN004 OVC043 SCT004 BKN028 OVC043 SCT006 BKN028 OVC043 FEW006 BKN028 OVC043 FEW006 SCT012 OVC028 FEW008 OVC031 FEW011 BKN029 OVC034 FEW006 BKN029 OVC034 FEW006 OVC029 SCT008 SCT020 OVC029	10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 3.00 1.75 1.50 0.75 0.25 0.25 0.50 0.50 1.00 1.50 1.75 1.25 0.75 0.75 1.00 0.75 0.75 1.00 0.75 0.75 1.50 2.50 3.00 2.00 1.25 2.00 2.00 1.75 2.00 2.50	-SN -SN -SN -SN +SN FZFG +SN FZFG SN FZFG SN FZFG -SN BR -SN BR -SN BR -SN BR -SN BR -SN BR -SN BR -SN BR -SN BR -SN BR -SN BR -SN BR -SN BR -SN BR -SN BR -SN BR -SN BR -SN BR -SN BR -SN BR -SN BR -SN BR	42 39 39 38 36 35 34 34 35 37 37 38 38 39 39 38 36 34 34 32 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 28 28 28 28 29 28 28 29	5.6 3.9 3.9 3.3 2.2 1.7 1.1 1.1 1.7 2.8 2.8 3.3 3.3 3.9 3.9 3.3 2.0 1.0 1.1 0.0 -1.0 -1.0 -1.0 -1.1 -1.0 -1.0 -1.1 -1.0 -1.0 -1.1 -1.0 -1.0 -1.1 -1.0 -1.0 -1.1 -1.0 -1.0 -2.0 -2.0 -2.0 -2.0 -1.7 -2.0 -2.0 -1.7	34 32 32 31 30 29 28 28 28 29 29 30 30 31 30 30 31 30 30 30 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28	0.8 0.0 -0.2 -0.5 -1.2 -1.5 -2.2 -2.3 -2.1 -1.6 -1.6 -1.1 -1.2 -0.8 -0.9 -1.1 -0.7 -1.1 -1.1 -1.0 -1.5 -1.5 -1.5 -1.5 -1.5 -1.5 -1.5 -1.5 -1.5 -1.5 -1.5 -1.5 -1.5 -1.5 -1.5 -1.5 -1.5 -1.7 -2.4 -2.4 -2.4 -2.4 -2.0 -2.4 -2.4 -2.2	19 20 18 18 18 18 16 15 14 13 13 14 13 14 13 14 21 23 23 27 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 26	-7.2 -6.7 -7.8 -7.8 -7.8 -7.8 -8.9 -9.4 -10.0 -10.6 -10.6 -10.0 -10.6 -10.0 -10.6 -10.0 -6.0 -5.0 -5.0 -3.0 -2.0 -2.0 -2.0 -2.2 -2.0 -2.0 -2.2 -2.0 -2.0 -2.2 -2.0 -2.0 -2.2 -2.0 -2.0 -2.2 -2.0 -3.0 -3.0 -3.0 -3.0 -3.0 -2.8 -3.0 -3.0 -3.3	40 46 43 44 48 50 48 46 42 37 37 37 36 36 34 37 55 64 64 82 92 92 92 92 92 92 92 92 92 92 92 92 92 92 92 92 92 89 96 96 96 96 92 96 96 89	0 3 0 3 3 6 0 7 10 9 3 6 6 6 5 0 0 0 3 5 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 5 6 6 6 5 5 0 6 7 5 5 6 6 6 7 7 5 6	000 340 000 020 050 070 000 090 070 080 VR 060 060 040 080 000 000 000 VR 090 100 000 080 000 000 000 000 060 060 060 060 050 050 050 000 060 070 070 070 060 070 080 060 060 040 070		28.88 28.88 28.90 28.90 28.91 28.91 28.94 28.97 28.97 28.99 29.01 28.99 28.97 28.95 28.97 28.97 28.96 28.96 28.96 28.96 28.97 28.97 28.97 28.97 28.96 28.95 28.95 28.95 28.93 28.93 28.94 28.93 28.92 28.92 28.92 28.89 28.90 28.90 28.89 28.90 28.87 28.88 28.88 28.88 28.87 28.86	3 3 3 1 8 5 8 8	002 006 014 014 002 005 004 021	30.12 30.12 30.14 30.14 30.16 30.16 30.19 30.22 30.22 30.24 30.27 30.24 30.24 30.21 30.22 30.22 M M 30.22 M M M M 30.24 M M 30.22 M M 30.20 M M 30.18 M M 30.15 M M M M M M 30.14 M M 30.12	AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA SP SP AA SP SP SP SP AA SP SP AA SP SP AA SP SP AA SP SP AA SP SP SP SP SP SP AA SP SP AA	T 0.10 0.03 0.04 0.08 0.07 0.04 0.03	30.15 30.15 30.17 30.17 30.18 30.18 30.21 30.24 30.24 30.26 30.29 30.26 30.25 30.22 30.24 30.24 30.23 30.23 30.23 30.23 30.24 30.25 30.24 30.24 30.23 30.22 30.22 30.22 30.20 30.20 30.21 30.20 30.19 30.19 30.19 30.16 30.17 30.17 30.16 30.17 30.14 30.15 30.15 30.15 30.14 30.13