Temperature
67 F at 2 AM; 90 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 62 F at its coolest, 4 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 67F
- 2 AM
- Highest
- 90F
- 2 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 62F
- 4 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/South Carolina/Columbia Metropolitan Airport
Columbia Metropolitan Airport, South Carolina
Medium airport in Lexington County, South Carolina67°
88°/65°
Clear·
Feels like 67°·Light breeze 4 mph SSW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 22 degrees cooler: a high of 66° after 88° today.
Now. Columbia Metropolitan Airport is 67° and clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 87° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 57° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 76): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest Sunday, near 61°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:49 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11 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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
76Air quality
93%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
67feels67
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8865
13mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6656
25%
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
6144
15mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6744
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
7347
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
7448
UV 7
Thu
Oct 22
7449
UV 6
67°
88°65°
66°56°
61°44°
67°44°
73°47°
74°48°
74°49°
As of 3:00 AM in Columbia Metropolitan Airport, South Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Columbia Metropolitan Airport
Index 76, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Columbia (SC), 15 miles off.
76Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)76Moderate14 mi
- Ozone42Good26 ppb14 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)25Good14 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide3Good3 ppb19.5 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.2 ppb14 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.3 ppm14 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 87, moderate.
GoodModerateSensitive groups
- 87YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 42 hours
Smoke near the ground peaks at index 56, moderate, Fri 6 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Columbia Metropolitan Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 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 Columbia Metropolitan Airport, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- CAE
- ICAO
- KCAE
- IATA
- CAE
- Field elevation
- 236 ft
- Serves
- Columbia
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- Yes
- Its own instrument
- CAE
- Wind now
- From 260° at 3 mph, read 16 Oct, 02:56
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 | 8,001 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt and concrete | 45° / 225° | 2 mph head, on 23 | 2 mph from the right |
| 11 / 29 | 8,601 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 104° / 284° | 3 mph head, on 29 | 1 mph from the left |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Columbia Metro (CAE), Columbia Metropolitan Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 65 F, the air 93% saturated; the humidity ran from 39% at 3 PM Thursday to 93% at 2 AM.
- Dew point now
- 65F
- 2 AM
- Humidity now
- 93%
- Humidity, range
- 39 to 93%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
4 mph from the west at 2 AM; at its strongest 7 mph, 5 PM Thursday, with a gust of 25 mph at 2 AM.
- Now
- 4mph
- from the west
- Strongest
- 7mph
- 5 PM Thursday
- Highest gust
- 25mph
- 2 AM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.05 inHg at 2 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.02 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.05inHg
- 2 AM
- 3 hours
- -0.01inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- -0.02inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 6 miles at 7 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 6mi
- 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
- 0.00in
- 11 AM Thursday
- Hours with some
- 2
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Columbia Metro: 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 Columbia Metropolitan Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.4 mi away/226 ft/10 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I-26 @ I-126SC011
Beside a road/6.2 mi away/210 ft/26 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
University Of South Carolina [CCOOP]USCS1
On a college campus/6.8 mi away/256 ft/20 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Columbia 5.8 SWSC-LX-167
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/244 ft/8 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Swansea 4NESWAS1
At a cooperative observer's station/13.4 mi away/316 ft/80 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in South Carolina
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Columbia Metropolitan Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Springdaletown, 2 mi
- Pine Ridgetown, 2 mi
- South Congareetown, 2 mi
- Oak Grovecommunity, 3 mi
- Caycecity, 4 mi
- West Columbiacity, 4 mi
- Red Bankcommunity, 6 mi
- Olympiacommunity, 6 mi
- Columbiacity, 7 mi
- Lexingtontown, 7 mi
- White Knollcommunity, 7 mi
- Edmundcommunity, 7 mi
Airports near Columbia Metropolitan Airport
- Jim Hamilton L.B. Owens AirportCUB, 8 mi
- Mc Entire Joint National Guard BaseMMT, 18 mi
- North Air Force Auxillary AirfieldXNO, 23 mi
- Fairfield County AirportFDW, 26 mi
- Orangeburg Municipal AirportOGB, 37 mi
- Shaw Air Force BaseSSC, 37 mi
- Aiken Regional AirportAIK, 38 mi
- Newberry County AirportEOE, 39 mi