Plumb Branch Lake ThurmondPLBS1
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.9 mi away/358 ft/29 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Parks/South Carolina/Hamilton Branch State Park
Hamilton Branch State Park, South Carolina
State Park in McCormick County, South Carolina71°
87°/66°
Clear·
Feels like 71°·Light air 3 mph S
Coming up. Tomorrow is 20 degrees cooler: a high of 67° after 87° today.
Now. Hamilton Branch State Park is 71° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the south at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 58° 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 84): 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 6:54 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
84Air quality
77%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
71feels71
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8766
10%
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6756
15%
14mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
6347
13mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6848
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
7450
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
7552
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
7553
UV 6
71°
87°66°
67°56°
63°47°
68°48°
74°50°
75°52°
75°53°
As of 12:00 AM in Hamilton Branch State Park, South Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Hamilton Branch State Park
Index 84, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Aiken-Augusta - SC and GA (SC), 30 miles off.
84Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)84Moderate21.1 mi
- Ozone41Good40 ppb21.1 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.3 ppb21.1 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 77, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 77YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Smoke near the ground peaks at index 68, moderate, Fri 2 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Hamilton Branch State Park
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. 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 Hamilton Branch State Park, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 329 ft
- County
- McCormick County
- State
- South Carolina
- Latitude
- 33.7506° N
- Longitude
- 82.2166° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Hamilton Branch State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station CW8046CW8046
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.0 mi away/460 ft/131 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
US-25 @ I-20SC014
Beside a road/20.9 mi away/499 ft/170 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
AikenAIK
At an airfield/31.3 mi away/528 ft/199 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Clarks Hill 1WCHDS1
At a cooperative observer's station/6.2 mi away/417 ft/88 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Plum Branch 0.9 NESC-MC-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.8 mi away/436 ft/107 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in South Carolina
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Hamilton Branch State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Modoccommunity, 1 mi
- Parksvilletown, 3 mi
- Plum Branchtown, 7 mi
- Clarks Hillcommunity, 7 mi
- McCormicktown, 12 mi
- Edgefieldtown, 17 mi
- Troytown, 17 mi
- Murphys Estatescommunity, 19 mi
- Willingtoncommunity, 20 mi
- Bradleycommunity, 21 mi
- North Augustacity, 22 mi
- Trentontown, 22 mi