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In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.1 mi away/672 ft/58 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Weather/South Carolina/Hickory Grove
Coming up. Tomorrow is 23 degrees cooler: a high of 61° after 84° today.
Now. Hickory Grove is 63° and clear at 8 AM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the south-southwest at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 83° by 2 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 Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest Sunday, near 59°. Rain is possible tomorrow (44%).
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 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 AM in Hickory Grove, South Carolina.
Air quality
Index 25, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, York, Chester, and Lancaster (SC), 22 miles off.
Yesterday measured 38, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 28 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 7 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Hickory Grove, South CarolinaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Hickory Grove, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.0 miles away.
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Citizen station FW4541FW4541
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.1 mi away/672 ft/58 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Kings Mountain State ParkKNGS1
In a park or preserve/12.0 mi away/814 ft/200 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
I-85 @ SC-198SC015
Beside a road/12.5 mi away/666 ft/52 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
ChesterDCM
At an airfield/18.1 mi away/656 ft/42 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Sharon 0.1 SSC-YR-112
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.0 mi away/667 ft/53 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ninety Nine Islands Reservoir At Ninety Nine Islands- Coop ObseNNIS1
At a reservoir/7.9 mi away/666 ft/52 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 18.1 mi from Hickory Grove, South Carolina. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 8:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
62.6 F with a dew point of 62.6 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground.
Calm.
The full report of Chester, 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.