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At an airfield/10.8 mi away/10 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Weather/South Carolina/Fripp Island
Fripp Island, South Carolina
Community in Beaufort County, South Carolina73°
84°/70°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 73°·Light air 3 mph WSW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 15 degrees cooler: a high of 69° after 84° today.
Now. Fripp Island is 73° and mostly clear at 9 AM. The dew point is 71°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light air from the west-southwest at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 82° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 69° 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 54): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 73°, and the coolest Sunday, near 63°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:48 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 23 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
1UV Low
54Air quality
97%Humidity
19%Cloud
Now
9:00 AM
73feels73
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 16
8470
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6963
23%
19mph
Sun
Oct 18
6352
19mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6954
17mph
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
7356
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
7358
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
7359
UV 6
73°
84°70°
69°63°
63°52°
69°54°
73°56°
73°58°
73°59°
As of 9:00 AM in Fripp Island, South Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Fripp Island
Index 54, moderate, led by coarse particles. Read at 9 AM from its reporting area, Savannah (GA), 38 miles off.
54Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)48Good-
- Ozone6Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)54Moderate-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 42, good.
GoodModerate
- 42YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 42 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Fripp Island
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 8 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Fripp Island, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 6 miles Sat 11 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Fripp Island, South CarolinaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Fripp Island, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Rank-
Hilton Head Island - Met EastHHES1
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.6 mi away/13 ft/3 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW9658FW9658
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.9 mi away/33 ft/23 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
St Helena Island 6.1 SESC-BF-102
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/12 ft/2 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
In a park or preserve/13.5 mi away/0 ft/10 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in South Carolina
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Fripp Island
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Harbor Islandcommunity, 7 mi
- Port Royaltown, 13 mi
- Beaufortcity, 13 mi
- Edisto Islandtown, 14 mi
- Edisto Beachtown, 15 mi
- Shell Pointcommunity, 16 mi
- Burtoncommunity, 17 mi
- Hilton Head Islandcity, 19 mi
- Laurel Baycommunity, 20 mi
- Seabrookcommunity, 21 mi
- Dalecommunity, 21 mi
- Lobecocommunity, 22 mi