Temperature
70 F at 12 AM; 85 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 62 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 70F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 85F
- 2 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 62F
- 6 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/South Carolina/Oconee County Regional Airport
Coming up. Tomorrow is 21 degrees cooler: a high of 64° after 85° today.
Now. Oconee County Regional Airport is 70° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 67°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 85° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° 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.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest Sunday, near 61°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:56 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:05 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 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Oconee County Regional Airport, South Carolina.
Air quality
Index 5, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Macon County (NC), 45 miles off.
Highest 58, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 22, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 39 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07 / 25 | 5,000 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 68° / 248° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Clemson/Oconee County (CEU), Oconee County Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
70 F at 12 AM; 85 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 62 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 67 F, the air 90% saturated; the humidity ran from 48% at 3 PM Thursday to 97% at 2 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 12 AM; at its strongest 4 mph, 2 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.06 inHg at 12 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.04 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 5 miles at 5 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Clemson/Oconee County: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Oconee County Regional 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 now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/892 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
SC-11 @ SC-28SC002
Beside a road/12.0 mi away/1,024 ft/132 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At a river or reservoir gauge/14.2 mi away/677 ft/215 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Seneca 4.6 ESESC-OC-25
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/872 ft/20 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ClemsonCLES1
At a cooperative observer's station/3.6 mi away/798 ft/94 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.