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What is measuring in South Carolina

2,036 instruments still reporting in South Carolina, across 5 networks, each one with the kind of measurement it makes and how often it makes it. Open a place below to see which of them stand near it.

measured now109 instruments

Airport surface observations

48 instruments/minutes

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

The backbone. Individual sensors fail and the station does not, so every reading is published with the age of the observation beside it.

Data-collection platforms

44 instruments/hourly

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Shore stations, fire weather stations and river gauges on one identifier. Most of them measure the river and are never offered here; the ones that are published air temperature and wind. A platform that was quiet when the catalogue was built is still listed, because it remains registered with its network. It is the only shoreline wind this service carries.

Road weather towers

17 instruments/minutes

temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip

Air temperature, pavement temperature, wind and visibility, placed where the road closes. The right instrument for a blowing-snow answer and almost nobody uses it well.

measured daily1,927 instruments

Volunteer precipitation and snow observers

1,841 instruments/once a day

precip, snowfall, snow depth

The same measurement a cooperative observer makes, from many more gardens. South Carolina publishes 1,841 of these against 86 cooperative observers, so on most days it is the densest picture of what is on the ground that exists.

Cooperative observers

86 instruments/once a day

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

A person, a board and a ruler, in the morning. It cannot say what is falling right now and it is the best answer to how much is on the ground.

Every place in South Carolina

21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.