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At a river or reservoir gauge/5.5 mi away/358 ft/25 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Parks/South Carolina/Hickory Knob State Park
Hickory Knob State Park, South Carolina
State Park in McCormick County, South Carolina69°
88°/65°
Clear·
Feels like 69°·Light air 3 mph SSW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 21 degrees cooler: a high of 67° after 88° today.
Now. Hickory Knob State Park is 69° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the south-southwest at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 87° 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 82): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 76°, 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.
0UV Low
82Air quality
84%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
69feels69
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8865
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6754
11%
13mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6345
14mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6945
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
7447
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
7549
UV 7
Thu
Oct 22
7650
UV 6
69°
88°65°
67°54°
63°45°
69°45°
74°47°
75°49°
76°50°
As of 1:00 AM in Hickory Knob State Park, South Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Hickory Knob State Park
Index 82, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Aiken-Augusta - SC and GA (SC), 44 miles off.
82Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)82Moderate-
- Ozone37Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 76, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 76YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 33 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Hickory Knob State Park
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. 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 Hickory Knob State Park, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 1.46 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 333 ft
- County
- McCormick County
- State
- South Carolina
- Latitude
- 33.8793° N
- Longitude
- 82.4333° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Hickory Knob State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/30.0 mi away/630 ft/297 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW8046CW8046
In a volunteer observer's own ground/35.2 mi away/460 ft/127 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
US-25 @ I-20SC014
Beside a road/36.2 mi away/499 ft/166 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
McCormick 8.2 WSWSC-MC-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/353 ft/20 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
McCormickMCCS1
At a cooperative observer's station/16.5 mi away/465 ft/132 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at McCormick (MCCS1), 16.5 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in South Carolina
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Hickory Knob State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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