Canton, NC Weather Forecast
Haywood County, North Carolina
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Canton, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Dry for the moment, with sleet moving in overnight
It is 49°, but the wind is taking it down to 43° on exposed skin. The sky is mostly cloudy. The wind is out of the northwest at 17 mph.
The first sleet arrives between midnight and 1 AM. That leaves a usable window outdoors until about midnight, and it closes quickly after that.
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
One wet spell, dry either side of it
There is one wet stretch in the window, near midnight. Total accumulation over the window comes to about 0.01 in.
Pressure rises 0.09 inHg behind it, which is the drier air arriving. The overnight low settles near 33°. Tomorrow reaches 39°, 9° cooler than today. The humidity goes with it: tomorrow is the more comfortable half of this window, and the safer one for anything outdoors.
Sunrise and sunset
Next five days, scored 0 to 100The first day or two use the HRRR and NBM cloud layers. Later days only have total cloud, so treat them as a rough guide.
Know when sunset at this place will be worth a photo
We score every sunrise and sunset here from the cloud, haze and smoke forecast, and let you know when one is likely to light up. Sunrise the evening before, sunset a few hours ahead.
Seven-day outlook
26–63°F across the weekThe week runs between 26° and 56°, with Wednesday the warmest day of it. The second half leans warming, and Saturday is the coolest day in it. Saturday is the wettest day, peaking near 52%. 6 of the 7 days stay dry.
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Canton, NC at a glance
Canton is home to about 4,418 people in Haywood County, across 3.7 square miles. It ranks 168th by population of 230 places in North Carolina with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Waynesville, 9 miles away.
- County
- Haywood County
- Population
- 4,418 2023 est.
- Land area
- 3.7 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,188
- Forecast point
- 35.5389°N, 82.8486°W
How well can the network see Canton?
The nearest Doppler radar is KMRX (Knoxville, TN), to the NW. Its lowest scan passes about 3,900 ft above Canton. Close enough to see rotation in the low part of a storm, where tornadoes form.
The closest weather station is KAVL (Asheville Muni). Far enough that current conditions for Canton are a reading from somewhere else.
Forecasts near Canton
- Waynesville, NC9 mi
- Woodfin, NC16 mi
- Asheville, NC17 mi
- Mills River, NC18 mi
- Weaverville, NC20 mi
- Fletcher, NC21 mi
- Brevard, NC21 mi
- Sylva, NC24 mi
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