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At a river or reservoir gauge/1.9 mi away/13 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beaches/South Carolina/Edisto Beach
Edisto Beach, South Carolina
Beach in Colleton County, South Carolina74°
85°/69°
Clear·
Feels like 74°·Light breeze 6 mph SSW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 15 degrees cooler: a high of 70° after 85° today.
Now. Edisto Beach is 74° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 69°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 67° 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 74°, and the coolest Sunday, near 64°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:47 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
28Air quality
93%Humidity
7%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
74feels74
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8569
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
7063
27%
18mph
Sun
Oct 18
6450
18mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6952
15mph
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
7455
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
7456
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
7457
UV 6
74°
85°69°
70°63°
64°50°
69°52°
74°55°
74°56°
74°57°
As of 12:00 AM in Edisto Beach, South Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Edisto Beach
Index 28, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Charleston (SC), 30 miles off.
28Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)28Good-
- Ozone18Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)12Good-
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 Edisto Beach
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 Edisto Beach, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing SE 141°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Rip current risk today: low
The flag in the picture is the colour of the forecast's risk (green low, yellow moderate, red high), not a flag raised on the beach.
A rip current is a narrow stream of water running out from the shore through the surf, often where fewer waves break. Caught in one, swim across it, along the shore, then back in.
Surf and swim
The surf zone forecast for Beaufort-Coastal Colleton-Coastal Jasper.
Friday
- Rip current risk
- Low
- Surf height
- 2 to 3 feet
- Water temperature
- Around 80
- UV index
- High
Surf zone forecast
Beaufort-Coastal Colleton-Coastal Jasper, including Hunting Island, Fripp Island, Hilton Head Island, Daufuskie Island, and Edisto Beach. Issued 6:16 PM EDT Thu Oct 15.
| Forecast | Friday | Saturday |
|---|---|---|
| Rip current risk | Low | Low |
| Surf height | 2 to 3 feet | 2 to 3 feet |
| Water temperature | Around 80 | - |
| UV index | High | - |
| Weather | Sunny | Mostly sunny. A chance of showers |
| High temperature | In the lower 80s | In the lower 70s |
| Winds | Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph | North winds around 20 mph |
| Tides | Hilton Head IslandHigh, 12:43 PM | Hilton Head IslandLow, 6:44 AMHigh, 1:35 PM |
- Sunday
- Surf height 2 to 3 feet. Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Breezy. North winds around 25 mph
- Monday
- Surf height 2 to 3 feet. Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers. Highs in the lower 70s. Breezy. Northeast winds around 25 mph
- Tuesday
- Surf height 2 to 3 feet. Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds around 20 mph
Beach
- County
- Colleton County
- State
- South Carolina
- Latitude
- 32.4871° N
- Longitude
- 80.3195° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Edisto Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station FW4310FW4310
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.8 mi away/30 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
BeaufortARW
At an airfield/19.1 mi away/10 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/31.0 mi away/13 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Edisto Beach 0.4 NWSC-CL-22
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/10 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
In a park or preserve/1.5 mi away/0 ft/- ft from 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 Edisto Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Edisto Islandtown, 1 mi
- Harbor Islandcommunity, 9 mi
- Rockvilletown, 11 mi
- Seabrook Islandtown, 11 mi
- Fripp Islandcommunity, 15 mi
- Meggetttown, 15 mi
- Adams Runcommunity, 16 mi
- Kiawah Islandtown, 17 mi
- Hollywoodtown, 19 mi
- Raveneltown, 21 mi
- Beaufortcity, 21 mi
- Jacksonborocommunity, 21 mi
Beaches near Edisto Beach
- Edisto Beach3 mi
- Edingsville Beach4 mi
- Seabrook Beach11 mi
- Hunting Island Beach11 mi
- Fripp Island beach16 mi
- Burkmeyer Beach21 mi
- Burckmyers Beach21 mi
- The Sands23 mi