Temperature
64 F at 4 AM; 88 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 61 F at its coolest, 5 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 64F
- 4 AM
- Highest
- 88F
- 3 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 61F
- 5 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/South Carolina/Chester Catawba Regional Airport
Chester Catawba Regional Airport, South Carolina
Small airport in Chester County, South Carolina64°
84°/62°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 64°·Calm 0 mph SW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 24 degrees cooler: a high of 60° after 84° today.
Now. Chester Catawba Regional Airport is 64° and mostly clear at 4 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 51° 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 70°, and the coolest Sunday, near 58°. Rain is possible tomorrow (42%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:49 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:57 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
12Air quality
97%Humidity
26%Cloud
Now
4:00 AM
64feels64
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 16
8462
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6051
42%
12mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
5842
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6342
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
6945
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
7048
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
7049
UV 6
64°
84°62°
60°51°
58°42°
63°42°
69°45°
70°48°
70°49°
As of 4:00 AM in Chester Catawba Regional Airport, South Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Chester Catawba Regional Airport
Index 12, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, York, Chester, and Lancaster (SC), 14 miles off.
12Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)-20.3 mi
- Ozone12Good0 ppb20.3 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 38, good.
GoodModerate
- 38YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 41 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 33 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Chester Catawba Regional Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 3 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 Chester Catawba Regional Airport, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 7 miles Sat 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- DCM
- ICAO
- KDCM
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 656 ft
- Serves
- Chester
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- DCM
- Wind now
- Calm, read 16 Oct, 04:35
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 unlit | 4,998 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 54° / 234° | Calm | Calm |
| 17 / 35 | 5,000 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 168° / 348° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Chester (DCM), Chester Catawba Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 63 F, the air 94% saturated; the humidity ran from 42% at 3 PM Thursday to 100% at 5 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 63F
- 4 AM
- Humidity now
- 94%
- Humidity, range
- 42 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
Calm at 4 AM; at its strongest 3 mph, 6 AM Thursday, and no gust reported.
- Now
- 0mph
- calm
- Strongest
- 3mph
- 6 AM Thursday
- Highest gust
- -
- none reported
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.06 inHg at 4 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.03 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.06inHg
- 4 AM
- 3 hours
- -0.01inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- -0.03inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 5 miles at 4 PM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 5mi
- 4 PM 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
Chester: 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 Chester Catawba 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
ChesterDCM
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/656 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Whitmire UsfsWHIS1
At a river or reservoir gauge/25.4 mi away/515 ft/141 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
I-85 @ SC-198SC015
Beside a road/30.5 mi away/666 ft/10 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Lowrys 3.6 ENESC-CS-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/602 ft/54 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Chester 1 SECSTS1
At a cooperative observer's station/7.2 mi away/551 ft/105 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 Chester Catawba Regional Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Lowrystown, 3 mi
- Eureka Millcommunity, 5 mi
- Chestercity, 6 mi
- McConnellstown, 6 mi
- Gayle Millcommunity, 6 mi
- Richburgtown, 11 mi
- Rock Hillcity, 13 mi
- Sharontown, 14 mi
- Yorkcity, 14 mi
- Newportcommunity, 15 mi
- Lessliecommunity, 15 mi
- Lockharttown, 15 mi
Airports near Chester Catawba Regional Airport
- Rock Hill - York County AirportUZA, 16 mi
- Lancaster County-Mc Whirter FieldLKR, 20 mi
- Union County, Troy Shelton Field35A, 26 mi
- Fairfield County AirportFDW, 33 mi
- Newberry County AirportEOE, 42 mi
- Spartanburg Downtown Memorial AirportSPA, 44 mi
- Laurens County AirportLUX, 47 mi
- Woodward FieldCDN, 50 mi