Temperature
68 F at 1 AM; 88 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 59 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 68F
- 1 AM
- Highest
- 88F
- 3 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 59F
- 7 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/South Carolina/Union County, Troy Shelton Field
Union County, Troy Shelton Field, South Carolina
Small airport in Union County, South Carolina66°
85°/63°
Clear·
Feels like 66°·Calm 0 mph SW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 23 degrees cooler: a high of 62° after 85° today.
Now. Union County is 66° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 85° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 52° 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. Air quality is moderate (index 64): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest Sunday, near 59°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:51 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:59 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 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
64Air quality
92%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
66feels66
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8563
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6252
18%
14mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
5942
13mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6543
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
7145
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
7247
UV 7
Thu
Oct 22
7248
UV 6
66°
85°63°
62°52°
59°42°
65°43°
71°45°
72°47°
72°48°
As of 2:00 AM in Union County, Troy Shelton Field, South Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Union County, Troy Shelton Field
Index 64, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Greenville-Spartanburg (SC), 33 miles off.
64Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)64Moderate24.4 mi
- Ozone21Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)20Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 62, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 62YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 39 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Union County, Troy Shelton Field
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 Union County, Troy Shelton Field, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- 35A
- ICAO
- -
- IATA
- USC
- Field elevation
- 610 ft
- Serves
- Union
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- 35A
- Wind now
- Calm, read 16 Oct, 01:35
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 | 3,508 ft | 60 ft | Asphalt | 47° / 227° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Union (35A), Union County, Troy Shelton Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 65 F, the air 91% saturated; the humidity ran from 47% at 3 PM Thursday to 99% at 8 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 65F
- 1 AM
- Humidity now
- 91%
- Humidity, range
- 47 to 99%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
1 mph from the south southeast at 1 AM; at its strongest 3 mph, 2 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
- Now
- 1mph
- from the south southeast
- Strongest
- 3mph
- 2 PM Thursday
- Highest gust
- -
- none reported
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.09 inHg at 1 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.03 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.09inHg
- 1 AM
- 3 hours
- -0.02inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- -0.03inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 5 miles at 7 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 5mi
- 7 AM Thursday
- 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
Union: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Union County, Troy Shelton Field, 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 now3 instruments
Union35A
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/595 ft/15 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Whitmire UsfsWHIS1
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.4 mi away/515 ft/95 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
I-385 @ US-221SC010
Beside a road/22.7 mi away/715 ft/105 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Union 3.3 SSC-UN-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/602 ft/8 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Union 8 SUNNS1
At a cooperative observer's station/5.8 mi away/492 ft/118 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in South Carolina
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Union County, Troy Shelton Field
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Unioncity, 2 mi
- Buffalocommunity, 3 mi
- Monarch Millcommunity, 4 mi
- Jonesvilletown, 11 mi
- Carlisletown, 12 mi
- Lockharttown, 12 mi
- Cross Anchorcommunity, 13 mi
- Whitmiretown, 13 mi
- Glenn Springscommunity, 14 mi
- Paulinecommunity, 16 mi
- Pacolettown, 16 mi
- Central Pacolettown, 17 mi
Airports near Union County, Troy Shelton Field
- Laurens County AirportLUX, 21 mi
- Spartanburg Downtown Memorial AirportSPA, 24 mi
- Newberry County AirportEOE, 26 mi
- Chester Catawba Regional AirportDCM, 26 mi
- Greenville-Spartanburg International AirportGSP, 36 mi
- Rock Hill - York County AirportUZA, 39 mi
- Fairfield County AirportFDW, 40 mi
- Greenville Downtown AirportGMU, 42 mi