Savannah River At Richard B Russell Lake 2 WNW Calhoun FallsRBDS1
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.8 mi away/482 ft/106 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Parks/South Carolina/Calhoun Falls State Recreation Area
Coming up. Tomorrow is 20 degrees cooler: a high of 66° after 86° today.
Now. Calhoun Falls State Recreation Area is 79° and clear at 11 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the west-southwest at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 54° 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 74): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 74°, and the coolest Sunday, near 62°. 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 11:06 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 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 AM in Calhoun Falls State Recreation Area, South Carolina.
Air quality
Index 74, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 10 AM from its reporting area, Athens-Clarke County (GA), 44 miles off.
Yesterday measured 63, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 44 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 10 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Calhoun Falls State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Savannah River At Richard B Russell Lake 2 WNW Calhoun FallsRBDS1
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.8 mi away/482 ft/106 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/29.4 mi away/630 ft/254 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW9473FW9473
In a volunteer observer's own ground/32.4 mi away/740 ft/364 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Calhoun Falls Co-OpCALS1
At a cooperative observer's station/4.9 mi away/541 ft/165 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Mount Carmel 0.1 SSESC-MC-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.0 mi away/539 ft/163 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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Snow on the ground
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.