I-85 @ SC-198SC015
Beside a road/4.0 mi away/666 ft/73 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/South Carolina/Cherokee Falls
Coming up. Tomorrow is 23 degrees cooler: a high of 62° after 85° today.
Now. Cherokee Falls is 66° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 51° by 8 AM, with some cloud. 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.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 72°, and the coolest Sunday, near 59°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:50 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:58 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 18 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Cherokee Falls, South Carolina.
Air quality
Index 8, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, York, Chester, and Lancaster (SC), 30 miles off.
Yesterday measured 38, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 33 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Cherokee Falls, South CarolinaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Cherokee Falls, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I-85 @ SC-198SC015
Beside a road/4.0 mi away/666 ft/73 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Kings Mountain State ParkKNGS1
In a park or preserve/9.8 mi away/814 ft/221 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW4541FW4541
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.1 mi away/672 ft/79 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
SpartanburgSPA
At an airfield/25.5 mi away/801 ft/208 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Ninety Nine Islands Reservoir At Ninety Nine Islands- Coop ObseNNIS1
At a reservoir/2.2 mi away/666 ft/73 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Gaffney 4.2 ESESC-CK-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.7 mi away/840 ft/247 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 25.5 mi from Cherokee Falls, South Carolina. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 4 mi.
64.4 F with a dew point of 62.6 F, 94 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up.
Calm.
The full report of Spartanburg, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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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.