Airports/South Carolina/Greenwood County Airport
Coming up. Tomorrow is 22 degrees cooler: a high of 63° after 85° today.
Now. Greenwood County Airport is 67° and clear at 4 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the southwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 85° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 51° 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 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 6:53 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:03 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.
As of 4:00 AM in Greenwood County Airport, South Carolina.
Air quality
Index 64, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Greenville-Spartanburg (SC), 46 miles off.
Yesterday measured 62, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 44 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09 / 27 | 5,001 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 85° / 265° | 2 mph head, on 27 | 5 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Greenwood County Airport (GRD), Greenwood County Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
71 F at 11 PM Thursday; 88 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 58 F at its coolest, 5 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 64 F, the air 79% saturated; the humidity ran from 47% at 3 PM Thursday to 100% at 5 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
5 mph from the south southwest at 11 PM Thursday; at its strongest 5 mph, 11 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.09 inHg at 11 PM Thursday, steady over 3 hours; 0.01 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 7 miles at 7 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
The 5 instruments nearest Greenwood County Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/630 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
At a river or reservoir gauge/22.5 mi away/525 ft/106 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
I-385 @ US-221SC010
Beside a road/22.8 mi away/715 ft/84 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Greenwood 4.9 NSC-GW-38
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/569 ft/62 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Greenwood 8 NEGWDS1
At a cooperative observer's station/7.1 mi away/528 ft/103 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Greenwood 8 NE (GWDS1), 7.1 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.