At a river or reservoir gauge/9.8 mi away/525 ft/2 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/South Carolina/Troy
Coming up. Tomorrow is 21 degrees cooler: a high of 65° after 86° today.
Now. Troy is 68° and mostly clear at 9 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 85° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 54° 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 72): 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 6:54 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 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 AM in Troy, South Carolina.
Air quality
Index 72, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Aiken-Augusta - SC and GA (SC), 47 miles off.
Yesterday measured 80, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 33 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 8 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 6 instruments nearest Troy, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.8 mi away/525 ft/2 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/19.8 mi away/630 ft/107 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW8046CW8046
In a volunteer observer's own ground/34.3 mi away/460 ft/63 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
US-25 @ I-20SC014
Beside a road/36.1 mi away/499 ft/24 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
McCormick 2.3 WSC-MC-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.8 mi away/468 ft/55 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
McCormickMCCS1
At a cooperative observer's station/9.7 mi away/465 ft/58 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 19.8 mi from Troy, South Carolina. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 8:56 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
69.0 F with a dew point of 64.0 F, 84 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,200 ft up.
From the southwest (220 degrees) at 8 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at McCormick (MCCS1), 9.7 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.