At an airfield/0.9 mi away/243 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Golf courses/South Carolina/Carolina Lakes
Coming up. Tomorrow is 23 degrees cooler: a high of 66° after 89° today.
Now. Carolina Lakes is 69° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 67°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 87° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 58° 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 76): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest Sunday, near 62°. Rain is possible tomorrow (39%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:47 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:57 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 day is 11 hours 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Carolina Lakes, South Carolina.
Air quality
Index 76, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Columbia (SC), 24 miles off.
Yesterday measured 87, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 50 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Carolina Lakes, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/0.9 mi away/243 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW9963EW9963
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.9 mi away/208 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Sumter [CCOOP]SMRS1
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.1 mi away/184 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
I-20 @ I-77SC012
Beside a road/25.9 mi away/295 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Shaw AFB 1.7 NWSC-SM-15
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/324 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BishopvilleBSPS1
At a cooperative observer's station/21.3 mi away/207 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Bishopville (BSPS1), 21.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.