Temperature
67 F at 12 AM; 89 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 60 F at its coolest, 5 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 67F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 89F
- 3 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 60F
- 5 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/South Carolina/Lancaster County-Mc Whirter Field
Lancaster County-Mc Whirter Field, South Carolina
Small airport in Lancaster County, South Carolina68°
87°/62°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 68°·Calm 0 mph SSW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 24 degrees cooler: a high of 63° after 87° today.
Now. Lancaster County-Mc Whirter Field is 68° and partly cloudy at 1 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 2 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.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest Sunday, near 60°. Rain is possible tomorrow (37%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:48 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:56 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
50Air quality
100%Humidity
42%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
68feels68
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 16
8762
10%
13mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6351
37%
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
6042
15mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6543
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
7146
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
7247
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
7248
UV 6
68°
87°62°
63°51°
60°42°
65°43°
71°46°
72°47°
72°48°
As of 1:00 AM in Lancaster County-Mc Whirter Field, South Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Lancaster County-Mc Whirter Field
Index 50, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Catawba Indian Nation (SC), 13 miles off.
50Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)50Good-
- Ozone1Good11 ppb24.8 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 50, good.
GoodModerate
- 50YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 33 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Lancaster County-Mc Whirter Field
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 Lancaster County-Mc Whirter Field, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- LKR
- ICAO
- KLKR
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 486 ft
- Serves
- Lancaster
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- LKR
- Wind now
- Calm, read 16 Oct, 00:35
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06 / 24 | 6,004 ft | 101 ft | Asphalt | 58° / 238° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Lancaster (LKR), Lancaster County-Mc Whirter Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 66 F, the air 96% saturated; the humidity ran from 44% at 3 PM Thursday to 100% at 4 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 66F
- 12 AM
- Humidity now
- 96%
- Humidity, range
- 44 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
Calm at 12 AM; at its strongest 6 mph, 4 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
- Now
- 0mph
- calm
- Strongest
- 6mph
- 4 PM Thursday
- Highest gust
- -
- none reported
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.06 inHg at 12 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.03 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.06inHg
- 12 AM
- 3 hours
- -0.02inHg
- 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
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 1,600 ft at 4 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 5 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 1,600ft
- 4 AM Thursday
- Hours with a base reported
- 5
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
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
Lancaster: 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 Lancaster County-Mc Whirter Field, 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
LancasterLKR
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/486 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Wateree River AT Lake WatereeWATS1
At a river or reservoir gauge/28.2 mi away/184 ft/302 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
I-77 @ SC-34SC017
Beside a road/29.8 mi away/564 ft/78 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Fort Lawn 1.4 NWSC-CS-20
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.7 mi away/475 ft/11 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CatawbaCATS1
At a cooperative observer's station/9.9 mi away/594 ft/108 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Catawba (CATS1), 9.9 miles from here, read 12 Oct, 07:16. measured daily
Elsewhere in South Carolina
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Lancaster County-Mc Whirter Field
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Airports near Lancaster County-Mc Whirter Field
- Chester Catawba Regional AirportDCM, 20 mi
- Rock Hill - York County AirportUZA, 22 mi
- Fairfield County AirportFDW, 32 mi
- Woodward FieldCDN, 35 mi
- Union County, Troy Shelton Field35A, 45 mi
- Hartsville Regional AirportHVS, 47 mi
- Cheraw Municipal Airport/Lynch Bellinger FieldCQW, 51 mi
- Jim Hamilton L.B. Owens AirportCUB, 53 mi