Temperature
64 F at 2 AM; 88 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 63 F at its coolest, 4 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 64F
- 2 AM
- Highest
- 88F
- 3 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 63F
- 4 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/South Carolina/Lowcountry Regional Airport
Lowcountry Regional Airport, South Carolina
Small airport in Colleton County, South Carolina65°
86°/63°
Clear·
Feels like 65°·Calm 1 mph SW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 19 degrees cooler: a high of 67° after 86° today.
Now. Lowcountry Regional Airport is 65° and clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 64°, 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 62° 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 61°. Rain is possible tomorrow (32%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:48 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 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
23Air quality
100%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
65feels65
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8663
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6761
32%
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
6146
16mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6748
13mph
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
7350
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
7351
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
7352
mostly clear day
65°
86°63°
67°61°
61°46°
67°48°
73°50°
73°51°
73°52°
As of 3:00 AM in Lowcountry Regional Airport, South Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Lowcountry Regional Airport
Index 23, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Charleston (SC), 41 miles off.
23Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)23Good-
- Ozone10Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)9Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 41, good.
GoodModerate
- 41YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 42 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Lowcountry Regional Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 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 Lowcountry Regional Airport, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- RBW
- ICAO
- KRBW
- IATA
- RBW
- Field elevation
- 101 ft
- Serves
- Walterboro
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- RBW
- Wind now
- Calm, read 16 Oct, 02:55
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 | 6,002 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt and concrete | 44° / 224° | Calm | Calm |
| 17 / 35 unlit | 5,705 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt and concrete | 165° / 345° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Walterboro (RBW), Lowcountry Regional 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 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 43% at 3 PM Thursday to 100% at 2 AM.
- Dew point now
- 64F
- 2 AM
- Humidity now
- 100%
- Humidity, range
- 43 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
Calm at 2 AM; at its strongest 7 mph, 2 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
- Now
- 0mph
- calm
- Strongest
- 7mph
- 2 PM Thursday
- Highest gust
- -
- none reported
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.09 inHg at 2 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.02 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.09inHg
- 2 AM
- 3 hours
- -0.01inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- -0.02inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 2 miles at 6 AM Thursday; 3 miles now.
- Now
- 3mi
- Lowest
- 2mi
- 6 AM Thursday
- 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 700 ft at 6 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 1 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 700ft
- 6 AM Thursday
- Hours with a base reported
- 1
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
Walterboro: 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 Lowcountry Regional 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
WalterboroRBW
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/101 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Walterboro RAWSWTBS1
A remote fire weather station/0.6 mi away/101 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Youmans FarmS2038
At a soil climate station/36.9 mi away/75 ft/26 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Walterboro 1.3 ENESC-CL-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/85 ft/16 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/3.2 mi away/82 ft/19 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 Lowcountry Regional Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Walterborocity, 2 mi
- Cottagevilletown, 10 mi
- Grovercommunity, 13 mi
- Williamstown, 14 mi
- Jacksonborocommunity, 15 mi
- Smoakstown, 16 mi
- Islandtoncommunity, 17 mi
- St. Georgetown, 19 mi
- Reevesvilletown, 20 mi
- Yemasseetown, 20 mi
- Lodgetown, 21 mi
- Adams Runcommunity, 22 mi
Airports near Lowcountry Regional Airport
- Summerville AirportDYB, 23 mi
- Beaufort MCAS - Merritt FieldNBC, 31 mi
- Charleston International AirportCHS, 35 mi
- Beaufort Executive AirportARW, 35 mi
- Ridgeland-Claude Dean Airport3J1, 36 mi
- Allendale County AirportAQX, 37 mi
- Orangeburg Municipal AirportOGB, 39 mi
- Berkeley County AirportMKS, 39 mi