In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.2 mi away/147 ft/55 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Parks/South Carolina/Cheraw State Park
Coming up. Tomorrow is 25 degrees cooler: a high of 63° after 88° today.
Now. Cheraw State Park is 68° and partly cloudy at 1 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 87° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 56° 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 55): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest Sunday, near 60°. Rain is likely tomorrow (51%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:44 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:52 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 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Cheraw State Park, South Carolina.
Air quality
Index 55, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Florence and Darlington (SC), 34 miles off.
Yesterday measured 54, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 39 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 7 miles Sat 9 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Cheraw State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.2 mi away/147 ft/55 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
CherawCQW
At an airfield/5.6 mi away/239 ft/147 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Pee Dee River Nr Bennettsville02130561
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Pee DeeS2037
At a soil climate station/26.0 mi away/120 ft/28 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Cheraw 1.2 ESESC-CF-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.7 mi away/120 ft/28 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CherawCEWS1
At a cooperative observer's station/3.2 mi away/141 ft/49 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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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.