Temperature
70 F at 12 AM; 87 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 66 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 70F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 87F
- 2 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 66F
- 6 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/South Carolina/Mount Pleasant Regional Airport Faison Field
Mount Pleasant Regional Airport Faison Field, South Carolina
Small airport in Charleston County, South Carolina70°
84°/68°
Clear·
Feels like 70°·Calm 0 mph SSW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 14 degrees cooler: a high of 70° after 84° today.
Now. Mount Pleasant Regional Airport Faison Field is 70° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 70°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 66° 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 Tuesday, near 73°, and the coolest Sunday, near 64°. Rain is possible tomorrow (36%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:45 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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 22 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
28Air quality
100%Humidity
2%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
70feels70
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8468
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
7062
36%
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
6449
16mph
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
6951
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
7354
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
7355
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
7356
UV 6
70°
84°68°
70°62°
64°49°
69°51°
73°54°
73°55°
73°56°
As of 12:00 AM in Mount Pleasant Regional Airport Faison Field, South Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Mount Pleasant Regional Airport Faison Field
Index 28, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Charleston (SC), 12 miles off.
28Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)28Good7.7 mi
- Ozone18Good8 ppb7.7 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)12Good-
- Nitrogen dioxide7Good7 ppb11.5 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.1 ppb11.5 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 44, good.
GoodModerate
- 44YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Mount Pleasant Regional Airport Faison Field
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 Mount Pleasant Regional Airport Faison Field, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- LRO
- ICAO
- KLRO
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 12 ft
- Serves
- Mount Pleasant
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- LRO
- Wind now
- Calm, read 15 Oct, 23:55
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 / 35 | 3,700 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 167° / 347° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Mount Pleasant (LRO), Mount Pleasant Regional Airport Faison Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 70 F, the air 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 54% at 2 PM Thursday to 100% at 1 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 70F
- 12 AM
- Humidity now
- 100%
- Humidity, range
- 54 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
Calm at 12 AM; at its strongest 9 mph, 4 PM Thursday, with a gust of 14 mph at 4 PM Thursday.
- Now
- 0mph
- calm
- Strongest
- 9mph
- 4 PM Thursday
- Highest gust
- 14mph
- 4 PM Thursday
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.08 inHg at 12 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.01 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.08inHg
- 12 AM
- 3 hours
- -0.01inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- -0.01inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 2 miles at 7 AM Thursday; 7 miles now.
- Now
- 7mi
- Lowest
- 2mi
- 7 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
Mount Pleasant: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Mount Pleasant Regional Airport Faison 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 now4 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/12 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
A remote fire weather station/8.5 mi away/26 ft/14 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Ravenel Bridge US-17SC019
Beside a road/10.1 mi away/-26 ft/38 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
McClellanville 7 NE03728
At a climate reference station/30.1 mi away/9 ft/3 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Mount Pleasant 7.0 NESC-CR-112
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/14 ft/2 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Sullivans IslandSULS1
At a cooperative observer's station/10.3 mi away/13 ft/1 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 Mount Pleasant Regional Airport Faison Field
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Mount Pleasanttown, 5 mi
- Isle of Palmscity, 7 mi
- Sullivan's Islandtown, 10 mi
- Awendawtown, 10 mi
- Charlestoncity, 12 mi
- Hanahancity, 13 mi
- James Islandtown, 15 mi
- North Charlestoncity, 16 mi
- Goose Creekcity, 17 mi
- Pimlicocommunity, 17 mi
- Folly Beachcity, 19 mi
- Ladsoncommunity, 20 mi
Airports near Mount Pleasant Regional Airport Faison Field
- Charleston International AirportCHS, 15 mi
- Charleston Executive AirportJZI, 19 mi
- Berkeley County AirportMKS, 25 mi
- Summerville AirportDYB, 31 mi
- Georgetown County AirportGGE, 39 mi
- Lowcountry Regional AirportRBW, 50 mi
- Santee Cooper Regional AirportMNI, 54 mi
- Williamsburg Regional AirportCKI, 57 mi