Temperature
65 F at 12 AM; 84 F at its warmest, 2 PM Friday, and 63 F at its coolest, 3 AM Friday.
- Now
- 65F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 84F
- 2 PM Friday
- Lowest
- 63F
- 3 AM Friday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/South Carolina/Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport
Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport, South Carolina
Small airport in Spartanburg County, South Carolina66°
64°/52°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 66°·Gentle breeze 11 mph NNW
Now. Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport is 66° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 54° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° 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 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 55): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Friday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:51 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:57 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 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
55Air quality
52%Humidity
76%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
66feels66
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 17
6452
19%
13mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
6143
12mph
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
6642
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
7244
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
7247
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
7246
mostly clear day
Fri
Oct 23
7348
mostly clear day
66°
64°52°
61°43°
66°42°
72°44°
72°47°
72°46°
73°48°
As of 12:00 AM in Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport, South Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport
Index 55, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Greenville-Spartanburg (SC), 11 miles off.
55Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)55Moderate3.2 mi
- Ozone29Good28 ppb8.1 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)14Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 62, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 62YesterdayOct 16
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 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 Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- SPA
- ICAO
- KSPA
- IATA
- SPA
- Field elevation
- 801 ft
- Serves
- Spartanburg
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- SPA
- Wind now
- From 330° at 12 mph, read 17 Oct, 00:15
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 | 5,852 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 41° / 221° | 4 mph head, on 05 | 11 mph from the left |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Spartanburg (SPA), Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 47 F, the air 52% saturated; the humidity ran from 42% at 2 PM Friday to 96% at 1 AM Friday.
- Dew point now
- 47F
- 12 AM
- Humidity now
- 52%
- Humidity, range
- 42 to 96%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
12 mph from the north northwest at 12 AM; at its strongest 12 mph, 11 PM Friday, with a gust of 22 mph at 11 PM Friday.
- Now
- 12mph
- from the north northwest
- Strongest
- 12mph
- 11 PM Friday
- Highest gust
- 22mph
- 11 PM Friday
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
29.94 inHg at 12 AM, rising 0.06 inHg over 3 hours; 0.11 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 29.94inHg
- 12 AM
- 3 hours
- +0.06inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- -0.11inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 3 miles at 4 AM Friday; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 3mi
- 4 AM Friday
- 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 400 ft at 8 AM Friday; a base was reported in 10 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- 9,000ft
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 400ft
- 8 AM Friday
- Hours with a base reported
- 10
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
Spartanburg: 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 Spartanburg Downtown Memorial 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
SpartanburgSPA
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/801 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I-85 @ I-26SC007
Beside a road/4.6 mi away/814 ft/13 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Durbin Creek RAWSDRBS1
A remote fire weather station/15.5 mi away/735 ft/66 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Roebuck 1.8 NSC-SP-145
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/787 ft/14 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Spartanburg 3 SSESPGS1
At a cooperative observer's station/2.5 mi away/636 ft/165 ft below 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 Spartanburg 3 SSE (SPGS1), 2.5 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 16:30. measured daily
Elsewhere in South Carolina
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Arkwrightcommunity, 1 mi
- Roebuckcommunity, 2 mi
- Spartanburgcity, 3 mi
- Saxoncommunity, 3 mi
- Arcadiacommunity, 4 mi
- Hilltopcommunity, 4 mi
- Fairforestcommunity, 4 mi
- Whitneycommunity, 5 mi
- Ben Avoncommunity, 5 mi
- Draytoncommunity, 5 mi
- Camp Croftcommunity, 5 mi
- Southern Shopscommunity, 5 mi
Airports near Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport
- Greenville-Spartanburg International AirportGSP, 15 mi
- Greenville Downtown AirportGMU, 23 mi
- Union County, Troy Shelton Field35A, 24 mi
- Donaldson Field AirportGYH, 26 mi
- Laurens County AirportLUX, 28 mi
- Pickens County AirportLQK, 43 mi
- Chester Catawba Regional AirportDCM, 44 mi
- Newberry County AirportEOE, 46 mi