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Beside a road/9.7 mi away/1,024 ft/17 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/South Carolina/Salem
Coming up. Tomorrow is 21 degrees cooler: a high of 64° after 85° today.
Now. Salem is 68° and mostly 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 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° 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.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 73°, 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 11:04 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 2:00 AM in Salem, South Carolina.
Air quality
Index 5, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Macon County (NC), 31 miles off.
Highest 58, moderate, today, led by ozone.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 28 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 Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Salem, South CarolinaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Salem, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
SC-11 @ SC-28SC002
Beside a road/9.7 mi away/1,024 ft/17 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Andrew Pickens RAWSWLHS1
A remote fire weather station/10.1 mi away/1,677 ft/670 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW6767FW6767
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.4 mi away/709 ft/298 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/15.5 mi away/892 ft/115 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Salem 0.8 SWSC-OC-78
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/1,034 ft/27 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Jocassee 8 WnwJOCS1
At a cooperative observer's station/8.6 mi away/2,707 ft/1,700 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 15.5 mi from Salem, South Carolina. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:54 AM 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.