US-25 SB @ NC LineSC026
Beside a road/6.8 mi away/2,215 ft/951 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Parks/South Carolina/Jones Gap State Park
Coming up. Tomorrow is 25 degrees cooler: a high of 53° after 78° today.
Now. Jones Gap State Park is 62° and mostly clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the southwest at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 76° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° 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 64): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 67°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:54 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:02 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 18 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Jones Gap State Park, South Carolina.
Air quality
Index 64, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Greenville-Spartanburg (SC), 28 miles off.
Yesterday measured 62, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 8 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Jones Gap State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
US-25 SB @ NC LineSC026
Beside a road/6.8 mi away/2,215 ft/951 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Corbin MountainCRBS1
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.9 mi away/2,909 ft/257 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW6982FW6982
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.3 mi away/1,075 ft/2,091 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/24.3 mi away/1,010 ft/2,156 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Slater-Marietta 6.4 NWSC-GV-81
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.6 mi away/1,080 ft/2,086 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Caesars HeadCAES1
At a cooperative observer's station/4.0 mi away/3,179 ft/13 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.