Thurmond Lake Near Plum Branch02193900
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 20 degrees cooler: a high of 66° after 86° today.
Now. Elijah Clarke State Park is 66° and clear at 5 AM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the southwest at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 55° 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. Air quality is moderate (index 77): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 75°, and the coolest Sunday, near 63°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:55 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:05 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 21 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Elijah Clarke State Park, Georgia.
Air quality
Index 77, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Aiken-Augusta - SC and GA (SC), 42 miles off.
Yesterday measured 80, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 33 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 9 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Elijah Clarke State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Thurmond Lake Near Plum Branch02193900
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW7730GW7730
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.4 mi away/422 ft/18 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
ThomsonHQU
At an airfield/22.7 mi away/499 ft/95 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I-20 @ Columbia Weigh Station WBGA332
Beside a road/28.1 mi away/302 ft/102 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Lincolnton 5.3 ENEGA-LC-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.5 mi away/456 ft/52 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LincolntonLNCG1
At a cooperative observer's station/4.1 mi away/449 ft/45 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.