Temperature
77 F at 1 AM; 77 F at its warmest, 12 AM, and 77 F at its coolest, 12 AM.
- Now
- 77F
- 1 AM
- Highest
- 77F
- 12 AM
- Lowest
- 77F
- 12 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
St Simons Island Airport, Georgia
Medium airport in Glynn County, Georgia75°
86°/68°
Clear·
Feels like 75°·Light breeze 6 mph S
Coming up. Tomorrow is 12 degrees cooler: a high of 74° after 86° today.
Now. St Simons Island Airport is 75° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 70°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the south at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 66° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 75°, and the coolest Sunday, near 68°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 23 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:53 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:09 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The day is 11 hours 25 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
19Air quality
79%Humidity
5%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
75feels75
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8668
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
7466
24%
19mph
Sun
Oct 18
6856
23mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7257
17%
19mph
Tue
Oct 20
7458
14mph
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
7560
14mph
UV 7
Thu
Oct 22
7560
14mph
UV 6
75°
86°68°
74°66°
68°56°
72°57°
74°58°
75°60°
75°60°
As of 2:00 AM in St Simons Island Airport, Georgia.
Air quality
The air at St Simons Island Airport
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Brunswick (GA), 6 miles off.
19Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)19Good-
- Ozone16Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)8Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 27, good.
GoodModerate
- 27YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at St Simons Island Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at St Simons Island Airport, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- SSI
- ICAO
- KSSI
- IATA
- SSI
- Field elevation
- 19 ft
- Serves
- St Simons Island
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- SSI
- Wind now
- From 170° at 6 mph, read 16 Oct, 01:55
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 | 5,584 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 36° / 216° | 4 mph head, on 22 | 4 mph from the left |
| 16 / 34 | 3,313 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 154° / 334° | 6 mph head, on 16 | 2 mph from the right |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Brunswick/Malcolm (SSI), St Simons Island Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 70 F, the air 79% saturated; the humidity ran from 79% at 12 AM to 79% at 12 AM.
- Dew point now
- 70F
- 1 AM
- Humidity now
- 79%
- Humidity, range
- 79 to 79%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
6 mph from the south at 1 AM; at its strongest 6 mph, 12 AM, and no gust reported.
- Now
- 6mph
- from the south
- Strongest
- 6mph
- 12 AM
- Highest gust
- -
- none reported
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.06 inHg at 1 AM; 0.01 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.06inHg
- 1 AM
- 3 hours
- -
- 24 hours
- -0.01inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
10 miles or more every hour.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 10+mi
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Precipitation
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Wettest hour
- -
- Hours with some
- 0
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Brunswick/Malcolm: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest St Simons Island Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/20 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sterling 3SWSTRG1
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.7 mi away/36 ft/17 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Brunswick 23 S63856
At a climate reference station/24.6 mi away/25 ft/6 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
I-95 @ Camden Welcome CenterGA356
Beside a road/31.6 mi away/23 ft/4 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
St. Simons 1.1 SWGA-GN-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/10 ft/9 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Brunswick CoopBRUG1
At a cooperative observer's station/6.7 mi away/36 ft/17 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Georgia
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
AlbanycityAthenscityAtlantacityAugustacityBlairsvillecityBlue RidgetownBrasstown BaldfeatureBrunswickcityChattahoochee National ForestfeatureColumbuscityDahlonegacityDaltoncityGainesvillecityHelencityJekyll IslandfeatureLake LanierfeatureMaconcityOkefenokee SwampfeatureRomecitySavannahcityTybee IslandtownValdostacityWarner Robinscity
Near St Simons Island Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- St. Simonscommunity, 1 mi
- Jekyll Islandcommunity, 5 mi
- Brunswickcity, 6 mi
- Jekyll Islandfeature, 6 mi
- Country Club Estatescommunity, 6 mi
- Dock Junctioncommunity, 8 mi
- Sterlingcommunity, 12 mi
- Dariencity, 15 mi
- Waverlycommunity, 20 mi
- Everettcommunity, 22 mi
- Woodbinecity, 23 mi
- Waynesvillecommunity, 24 mi
Airports near St Simons Island Airport
- Brunswick Golden Isles AirportBQK, 9 mi
- Jesup Wayne County AirportJES, 40 mi
- MidCoast Regional Airport at Wright Army AirfieldLHW, 52 mi
- Waycross Ware County AirportAYS, 60 mi
- Hunter Army Air FieldSVN, 61 mi
- Savannah Hilton Head International AirportSAV, 68 mi
- Baxley Municipal AirportBHC, 71 mi
- Bacon County AirportAMG, 71 mi