Temperature
65 F at 12 AM; 88 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 55 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 65F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 88F
- 3 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 55F
- 7 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/South Carolina/Pickens County Airport
Pickens County Airport, South Carolina
Small airport in Pickens County, South Carolina66°
86°/61°
Clear·
Feels like 66°·Calm 0 mph SSW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 22 degrees cooler: a high of 64° after 86° today.
Now. Pickens County Airport is 66° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 85° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° 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 74°, and the coolest Sunday, near 62°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:55 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 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
64Air quality
93%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
66feels66
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8661
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6448
12mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6239
12mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6739
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
7342
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
7444
UV 7
Thu
Oct 22
7344
UV 7
66°
86°61°
64°48°
62°39°
67°39°
73°42°
74°44°
73°44°
As of 12:00 AM in Pickens County Airport, South Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Pickens County Airport
Index 64, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Greenville-Spartanburg (SC), 32 miles off.
64Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)64Moderate16.4 mi
- Ozone20Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)19Good16.4 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide17Good18 ppb16.4 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.1 ppb16.4 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 71, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 71YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 33 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Pickens County Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. 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 Pickens County Airport, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- LQK
- ICAO
- KLQK
- IATA
- LQK
- Field elevation
- 1,013 ft
- Serves
- Pickens
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- LQK
- Wind now
- Calm, read 16 Oct, 00:15
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 | 5,002 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 44° / 224° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Pickens County (LQK), Pickens County 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 93% saturated; the humidity ran from 47% at 2 PM Thursday to 94% at 8 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 63F
- 12 AM
- Humidity now
- 93%
- Humidity, range
- 47 to 94%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
Calm at 12 AM; at its strongest 5 mph, 4 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
- Now
- 0mph
- calm
- Strongest
- 5mph
- 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
Down to 5 miles at 2 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 5mi
- 2 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
- -
- Hours with some
- 0
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Pickens County: 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 Pickens County 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
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,010 ft/3 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
US-123 @ SC-93SC004
Beside a road/12.0 mi away/817 ft/196 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Table RockTBLS1
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.2 mi away/1,319 ft/306 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Liberty 1.2 SESC-PC-82
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/992 ft/21 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
PickensPICS1
At a cooperative observer's station/5.0 mi away/1,096 ft/83 ft above 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 Pickens County Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Airports near Pickens County Airport
- Oconee County Regional AirportCEU, 14 mi
- Donaldson Field AirportGYH, 19 mi
- Greenville Downtown AirportGMU, 20 mi
- Anderson Regional AirportAND, 22 mi
- Greenville-Spartanburg International AirportGSP, 28 mi
- Spartanburg Downtown Memorial AirportSPA, 43 mi
- Laurens County AirportLUX, 48 mi
- Greenwood County AirportGRD, 50 mi