Temperature
72 F at 12 AM; 86 F at its warmest, 12 PM Thursday, and 68 F at its coolest, 3 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 72F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 86F
- 12 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 68F
- 3 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/South Carolina/Grand Strand Airport
Grand Strand Airport, South Carolina
Medium airport in Horry County, South Carolina72°
82°/67°
Clear·
Feels like 72°·Light breeze 4 mph SW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 14 degrees cooler: a high of 68° after 82° today.
Now. Grand Strand Airport is 72° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 70°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 81° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 63° 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 52): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 73°, and the coolest Sunday, near 63°. Rain is likely tomorrow (53%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:40 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:50 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 21 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
52Air quality
93%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
72feels72
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8267
16mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6859
53%
22mph
Sun
Oct 18
6346
24%
22mph
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
6849
11%
17mph
Tue
Oct 20
7251
13mph
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
7253
13mph
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
7353
13mph
72°
82°67°
68°59°
63°46°
68°49°
72°51°
72°53°
73°53°
As of 1:00 AM in Grand Strand Airport, South Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Grand Strand Airport
Index 52, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Myrtle Beach-Conway (SC), 16 miles off.
52Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)52Moderate15.8 mi
- Ozone31Good34 ppb15.8 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 48, good.
GoodModerate
- 48YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Grand Strand Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 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 Grand Strand Airport, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 4 miles Sat 9 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- CRE
- ICAO
- KCRE
- IATA
- CRE
- Field elevation
- 32 ft
- Serves
- North Myrtle Beach
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- CRE
- Wind now
- From 230° at 3 mph, read 16 Oct, 00:53
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 | 5,997 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 46° / 226° | 3 mph head, on 23 | None |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from North Myrtle Beach (CRE), Grand Strand 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 93% saturated; the humidity ran from 51% at 12 PM Thursday to 100% at 3 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 70F
- 12 AM
- Humidity now
- 93%
- Humidity, range
- 51 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
5 mph from the southwest at 12 AM; at its strongest 10 mph, 5 PM Thursday, with a gust of 17 mph at 5 PM Thursday.
- Now
- 5mph
- from the southwest
- Strongest
- 10mph
- 5 PM Thursday
- Highest gust
- 17mph
- 5 PM Thursday
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.07 inHg at 12 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.01 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.07inHg
- 12 AM
- 3 hours
- -0.01inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- -0.01inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 4 miles at 4 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 4mi
- 4 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
- 12 PM Thursday
- Hours with some
- 2
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
North Myrtle Beach: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Grand Strand 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 now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/33 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Horry RAWSHRAS1
A remote fire weather station/22.4 mi away/85 ft/53 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
North Myrtle Beach 2.9 SWSC-HR-26
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/21 ft/11 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Myrtle BeachMYBS1
At a cooperative observer's station/6.9 mi away/10 ft/22 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 Grand Strand Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Atlantic Beachtown, 1 mi
- Briarcliffe Acrestown, 2 mi
- North Myrtle Beachcity, 2 mi
- Little Rivercommunity, 7 mi
- Carolina Forestcommunity, 12 mi
- Myrtle Beachcity, 12 mi
- Forestbrookcommunity, 15 mi
- Red Hillcommunity, 17 mi
- Socasteecommunity, 18 mi
- Conwaycity, 19 mi
- Loriscity, 19 mi
- Homewoodcommunity, 20 mi
Airports near Grand Strand Airport
- Myrtle Beach International AirportMYR, 15 mi
- Conway Horry County AirportHYW, 23 mi
- Marion County AirportMAO, 43 mi
- Georgetown County AirportGGE, 49 mi
- Florence Regional AirportFLO, 63 mi
- Williamsburg Regional AirportCKI, 65 mi
- Darlington County AirportUDG, 80 mi
- Marlboro County Jetport - H E Avent Field AirportBBP, 80 mi