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At a river or reservoir gauge/1.0 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 CarolinaRip Current Statement, in full
* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...South Carolina Beaches. * WHEN...From Sunday morning through Sunday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water.
Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help.
53°
67°/50°
Clear·
Feels like 53°·Gentle breeze 11 mph NNE
Alert. A Rip Current Statement is in force for Edisto Beach until 8 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Edisto Beach is 53° and clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northeast at 11 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 66° by 5 PM. Tonight falls to about 51° by 7 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.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 69°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:45 PM. The Moon is a first quarter, 52% lit, and sets at 12:56 AM after midnight. 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 bright Moon hides all but the brightest of them. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
19Air quality
72%Humidity
6%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
53feels53
now, clear
Today
Oct 18
6750
16mph
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
6950
13mph
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
7352
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
7354
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
7452
clear day
Fri
Oct 23
7353
clear day
Sat
Oct 24
7354
13mph
53°
67°50°
69°50°
73°52°
73°54°
74°52°
73°53°
73°54°
As of 3:00 AM in Edisto Beach, South Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Edisto Beach
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Charleston (SC), 27 miles off.
19Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)15Good-
- Ozone19Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 31, good.
GoodModerate
- 31YesterdayOct 17
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Mon 8 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Edisto Beach
None in the last 3 days, to Sun 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 Edisto Beach, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Mon 8 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing SE 139°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Rip current risk today: high
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.
Sunday
- Rip current risk
- High
- Surf height
- 1 to 2 feet
- Water temperature
- In the mid 70s
- UV index
- Moderate
Surf zone forecast
Beaufort-Coastal Colleton-Coastal Jasper, including Hunting Island, Fripp Island, Hilton Head Island, Daufuskie Island, and Edisto Beach. Issued 2:13 AM EDT Sun Oct 18.
| Forecast | Sunday | Monday |
|---|---|---|
| Rip current risk | High | High |
| Surf height | 1 to 2 feet | 2 to 3 feet |
| Water temperature | In the mid 70s | - |
| UV index | Moderate | - |
| Weather | Sunny | Sunny |
| High temperature | In the upper 60s | Around 70 |
| Winds | Breezy. Northeast winds 20 to 25 mph | North winds 15 to 20 mph |
| Tides | Hilton Head IslandLow, 7:36 AMHigh, 2:28 PM | Hilton Head IslandLow, 8:34 AMHigh, 3:20 PM |
- Tuesday
- Surf height 2 to 3 feet. Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds around 15 mph
- Wednesday
- Surf height 2 to 3 feet. Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds around 15 mph
- Thursday
- Surf height around 1 foot. Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds around 10 mph
Beach
- County
- Colleton County
- State
- South Carolina
- Latitude
- 32.5151° N
- Longitude
- 80.2807° 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 1.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station FW4310FW4310
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.8 mi away/30 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/20.6 mi away/17 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/28.1 mi away/13 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Edisto Island 2.2 ESESC-CR-238
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/10 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
In a park or preserve/4.4 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 Beachtown, 3 mi
- Edisto Islandtown, 4 mi
- Rockvilletown, 8 mi
- Seabrook Islandtown, 8 mi
- Harbor Islandcommunity, 12 mi
- Meggetttown, 13 mi
- Kiawah Islandtown, 14 mi
- Adams Runcommunity, 15 mi
- Hollywoodtown, 17 mi
- Fripp Islandcommunity, 18 mi
- Raveneltown, 18 mi
- Jacksonborocommunity, 21 mi
Beaches near Edisto Beach
- Edingsville Beach1 mi
- Edisto Beach3 mi
- Seabrook Beach8 mi
- Hunting Island Beach14 mi
- Fripp Island beach19 mi
- Folly Beach County Park21 mi
- Folly Beach23 mi
- Burkmeyer Beach24 mi