Citizen station FW6982FW6982
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.3 mi away/1,075 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Beaches/South Carolina/Sandstone Beach
Sandstone Beach, South Carolina
Beach in Pickens County, South Carolina* WHAT...Temperatures as low as 36 will result in frost formation. * WHERE...Portions of northeast Georgia, the foothills of North Carolina, and the South Carolina mountains. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM EDT Sunday. * IMPACTS...Frost could harm sensitive outdoor vegetation. Sensitive outdoor plants may be killed if left uncovered.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
56°
62°/48°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 56°·Gentle breeze 10 mph NNW
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Sandstone Beach until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Sandstone Beach is 56° and mostly clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 10 mph, gusting to 21 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 61° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° 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 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 62°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:54 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 12:01 AM after midnight. 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 16 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
25Air quality
59%Humidity
28%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
56feels56
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 17
6248
12mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
6240
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
6741
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
7243
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
7246
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
7346
mostly clear day
Fri
Oct 23
7348
clear day
56°
62°48°
62°40°
67°41°
72°43°
72°46°
73°46°
73°48°
As of 2:00 AM in Sandstone Beach, South Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Sandstone Beach
Index 25, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Macon County (NC), 32 miles off.
25Good
- Ozone25Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by ozone.
GoodModerate
- 35TodayOct 17
- 37SunOct 18
- 40MonOct 19
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sandstone Beach
None in the last 3 days, to Sat 1 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 Sandstone Beach, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 8 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Pickens County
- State
- South Carolina
- Latitude
- 34.9704° N
- Longitude
- 82.9140° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Sandstone Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
USGS Raingage Nr Sunfish Mtn Nr Rocky Bottom350254082445500
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/16.3 mi away/1,010 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
SC-11 @ SC-28SC002
Beside a road/16.6 mi away/1,024 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Salem 5.0 NESC-OC-43
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/899 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Jocassee 8 WnwJOCS1
At a cooperative observer's station/8.7 mi away/2,707 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in South Carolina
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
AikencityAndersoncityBeaufortcityCaesars HeadfeatureCharlestoncityClemsoncityColumbiacityCongaree National ParkfeatureEdisto IslandtownFlorencecityGreenvillecityGreenwoodcityHilton Head IslandcityLake MurrayfeatureMyrtle BeachcityOrangeburgcityRock HillcitySassafras MountainfeatureSpartanburgcitySumtercityTable Rockfeature
Near Sandstone Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Salemtown, 7 mi
- Tamasseecommunity, 9 mi
- Keowee Keycommunity, 10 mi
- Sassafras Mountainfeature, 10 mi
- Six Miletown, 13 mi
- Table Rockfeature, 13 mi
- Pickenscity, 13 mi
- Cateecheecommunity, 16 mi
- West Uniontown, 16 mi
- Walhallacity, 16 mi
- Norristown, 17 mi
- Newrycommunity, 17 mi
Beaches near Sandstone Beach
- North Beach9 mi
- South Beach11 mi
- Y Beach20 mi
- Lever Beach21 mi
- East Beach21 mi
- Clifton Park and Beach62 mi
- Sailing Beach106 mi
- Pitcairn Cove Beach Park107 mi