54-IR70 MM 62OH046
Beside a road/7.3 mi away/1,049 ft/74 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 52° after 61° today.
Now. South Charleston is 63° and overcast at 8 AM. The dew point is 56°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the west at 12 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 64° by 8 AM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 8 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:54 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:49 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 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 AM in South Charleston, Ohio.
Air quality
Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Dayton (OH), 30 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 41, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.67 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 8 miles Fri 9 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over South Charleston, OhioReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest South Charleston, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
54-IR70 MM 62OH046
Beside a road/7.3 mi away/1,049 ft/74 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
SpringfieldSGH
At an airfield/10.8 mi away/1,051 ft/72 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW5801FW5801
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.0 mi away/1,042 ft/81 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Molly Caren #1 ScanMOLO1
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.2 mi away/1,060 ft/63 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Molly Caren #1S2014
At a soil climate station/13.2 mi away/1,060 ft/63 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
South Charleston 0.5 ENEOH-CK-22
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/1,124 ft/1 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LondonLNDO1
At a cooperative observer's station/10.7 mi away/1,047 ft/76 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.8 mi from South Charleston, Ohio. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 8:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 1,300 ft, broken at 2,400 ft, overcast at 4,100 ft; the ceiling is 2,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
57.2 F with a dew point of 53.6 F, 88 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,300 ft.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 14 mph, gusting 25 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 31 mph.
The full report of Springfield, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at London (LNDO1), 10.7 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.