Temperature
73 F at 12 AM; 88 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 63 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 73F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 88F
- 2 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 63F
- 6 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/South Carolina/Donaldson Field Airport
Donaldson Field Airport, South Carolina
Small airport in Greenville County, South Carolina71°
84°/62°
Clear·
Feels like 71°·Light breeze 8 mph SW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 21 degrees cooler: a high of 63° after 84° today.
Now. Donaldson Field Airport is 71° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the southwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 2 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. 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 60°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:54 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:02 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.
0UV Low
64Air quality
78%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
71feels71
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8462
16mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6350
17mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6042
18mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6543
13mph
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
7146
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
7248
UV 7
Thu
Oct 22
7148
UV 7
71°
84°62°
63°50°
60°42°
65°43°
71°46°
72°48°
71°48°
As of 1:00 AM in Donaldson Field Airport, South Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Donaldson Field Airport
Index 64, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Greenville-Spartanburg (SC), 17 miles off.
64Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)64Moderate6.1 mi
- Ozone20Good29 ppb7 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)19Good6.1 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide17Good18 ppb6.1 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.1 ppb6.1 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 71, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 71YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 39 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Donaldson Field 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 Donaldson Field Airport, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- GYH
- ICAO
- KGYH
- IATA
- GDC
- Field elevation
- 955 ft
- Serves
- Greenville
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- GYH
- Wind now
- From 210° at 9 mph, read 16 Oct, 00:55
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 | 8,000 ft | 150 ft | Concrete | 40° / 220° | 9 mph head, on 23 | 2 mph from the left |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Greenville (GYH), Donaldson Field Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 64 F, the air 73% saturated; the humidity ran from 46% at 3 PM Thursday to 94% at 3 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 64F
- 12 AM
- Humidity now
- 73%
- Humidity, range
- 46 to 94%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
8 mph from the south southwest at 12 AM; at its strongest 9 mph, 4 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
- Now
- 8mph
- from the south southwest
- Strongest
- 9mph
- 4 PM Thursday
- Highest gust
- -
- none reported
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.07 inHg at 12 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.03 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.07inHg
- 12 AM
- 3 hours
- -0.01inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- -0.03inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
10 miles or more every hour.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 10+mi
- 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
Greenville: 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 Donaldson Field 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
GreenvilleGYH
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/955 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Church Street BridgeSC009
Beside a road/6.0 mi away/935 ft/20 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Durbin Creek RAWSDRBS1
A remote fire weather station/16.1 mi away/735 ft/220 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Greenville 7.7 SESC-GV-26
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/826 ft/129 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lee Steam PlantBELS1
At a cooperative observer's station/11.3 mi away/656 ft/299 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 Donaldson Field Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Conesteecommunity, 2 mi
- Ganttcommunity, 2 mi
- Golden Grovecommunity, 4 mi
- Mauldincity, 5 mi
- Duneancommunity, 5 mi
- Judsoncommunity, 6 mi
- Welcomecommunity, 6 mi
- Piedmontcommunity, 6 mi
- Greenvillecity, 7 mi
- Powdersvillecommunity, 7 mi
- Simpsonvillecity, 7 mi
- Parkercommunity, 7 mi
Airports near Donaldson Field Airport
- Greenville Downtown AirportGMU, 6 mi
- Greenville-Spartanburg International AirportGSP, 13 mi
- Pickens County AirportLQK, 19 mi
- Spartanburg Downtown Memorial AirportSPA, 26 mi
- Anderson Regional AirportAND, 26 mi
- Oconee County Regional AirportCEU, 30 mi
- Laurens County AirportLUX, 30 mi
- Greenwood County AirportGRD, 37 mi