Airports/South Carolina/Laurens County Airport
Coming up. Tomorrow is 21 degrees cooler: a high of 62° after 83° today.
Now. Laurens County Airport is 80° and clear at 12 PM. 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 83° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 52° by 8 AM, with some cloud. 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 72): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest Sunday, near 58°. Rain is possible tomorrow (34%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:52 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:01 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 day is 11 hours 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 PM in Laurens County Airport, South Carolina.
Air quality
Index 72, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Greenville-Spartanburg (SC), 30 miles off.
Yesterday measured 62, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM: the index from smoke stays at 28 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 8 AM, lowest 7 miles Sat 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08 / 26 | 4,051 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 72° / 252° | 6 mph head, on 26 | 3 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Laurens (LUX), Laurens County Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
70 F at 11 PM Thursday; 87 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 70 F at its coolest, 9 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 64 F, the air 81% saturated; the humidity ran from 42% at 3 PM Thursday to 88% at 8 PM 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, 2 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.07 inHg at 11 PM Thursday, steady over 3 hours; 0.03 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
10 miles or more every hour.
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
Laurens: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Laurens 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
LaurensLUX
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/697 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I-385 @ US-221SC010
Beside a road/4.6 mi away/715 ft/18 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Durbin Creek RAWSDRBS1
A remote fire weather station/17.1 mi away/735 ft/38 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Laurens 1.7 ESC-LR-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.8 mi away/637 ft/60 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
City Water PlantCTNS1
At a cooperative observer's station/4.2 mi away/676 ft/21 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.