Hartwell Lake Near Anderson02187010
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/South Carolina/Fair Play
Coming up. Tomorrow is 21 degrees cooler: a high of 65° after 86° today.
Now. Fair Play is 70° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 51° 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 Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest Sunday, near 62°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:56 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:06 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 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Fair Play, South Carolina.
Air quality
Index 64, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Athens-Clarke County (GA), 46 miles off.
Yesterday measured 64, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 44 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Fair Play, South CarolinaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Fair Play, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.6 miles away.
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Hartwell Lake Near Anderson02187010
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW6870FW6870
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.9 mi away/1,044 ft/278 ft above here
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At an airfield/12.8 mi away/892 ft/126 ft above here
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SC-11 @ SC-28SC002
Beside a road/18.4 mi away/1,024 ft/258 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Fair Play 3.7 WSWSC-OC-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.6 mi away/708 ft/58 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ClemsonCLES1
At a cooperative observer's station/15.1 mi away/798 ft/32 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.8 mi from Fair Play, South Carolina. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:54 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
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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.