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Beside a road/1.4 mi away/1,024 ft/34 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/South Carolina/West Union
Coming up. Tomorrow is 21 degrees cooler: a high of 63° after 84° today.
Now. West Union is 66° and mostly clear at 5 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the west-northwest at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° 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.
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 11:05 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 5:00 AM in West Union, South Carolina.
Air quality
Index 1, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Macon County (NC), 35 miles off.
Highest 58, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 19, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 33 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 6 instruments nearest West Union, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
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Beside a road/1.4 mi away/1,024 ft/34 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Andrew Pickens RAWSWLHS1
A remote fire weather station/6.0 mi away/1,677 ft/687 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW9469FW9469
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.1 mi away/850 ft/140 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/10.6 mi away/892 ft/98 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
West Union 1.5 ESESC-OC-15
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/875 ft/115 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Walhall Co-OpWALS1
At a cooperative observer's station/2.5 mi away/896 ft/94 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.6 mi from West Union, South Carolina. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:30 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 200 ft; visibility 9 mi.
67.0 F with a dew point of 66.0 F, 97 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 200 ft.
From the west southwest (250 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Walhall Co-Op (WALS1), 2.5 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. 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.