Plumb Branch Lake ThurmondPLBS1
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.5 mi away/358 ft/25 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Parks/South Carolina/Hickory Knob State Park
Hickory Knob State Park, South Carolina
State Park in McCormick County, South Carolina62°
80°/56°
Clear·
Feels like 62°·Light air 3 mph NE
Now. Hickory Knob State Park is 62° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the northeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 80° by 5 PM. Tonight falls to about 55° by 7 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 54): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 85°, and the coolest Sunday, near 75°. Rain is likely Sunday (68%). Rain is possible Saturday (43%) and Monday (49%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:07 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 4:20 AM after midnight. The next new Moon is Saturday, Oct 10. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 40 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
54Air quality
96%Humidity
11%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
62feels62
now, clear
Today
Oct 6
8056
UV 7
Wed
Oct 7
8154
UV 7
Thu
Oct 8
8554
UV 7
Fri
Oct 9
8357
UV 6
Sat
Oct 10
7658
43%
12mph
Sun
Oct 11
7559
68%
12mph
Mon
Oct 12
7959
49%
62°
80°56°
81°54°
85°54°
83°57°
76°58°
75°59°
79°59°
As of 2:00 AM in Hickory Knob State Park, South Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Hickory Knob State Park
Index 54, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Aiken-Augusta - SC and GA (SC), 44 miles off.
54Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)54Moderate-
- Ozone7Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 44, good.
GoodModerate
- 44YesterdayOct 5
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Wed 8 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Hickory Knob State Park
None in the last 24 hours; 0.29 in over the last 3 days, to Tue 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.29in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Hickory Knob State Park, the next 43 hours
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0 miles Tue 5 AM, under a mile for 3 hours.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 1.46 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 333 ft
- County
- McCormick County
- State
- South Carolina
- Latitude
- 33.8793° N
- Longitude
- 82.4333° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Hickory Knob State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/30.0 mi away/630 ft/297 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW8046CW8046
In a volunteer observer's own ground/35.2 mi away/460 ft/127 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
US-25 @ I-20SC014
Beside a road/36.2 mi away/499 ft/166 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
McCormick 8.2 WSWSC-MC-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/353 ft/20 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
McCormickMCCS1
At a cooperative observer's station/16.5 mi away/465 ft/132 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at McCormick (MCCS1), 16.5 miles from here, read 5 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in South Carolina
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Hickory Knob State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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- Mount Carmelcommunity, 10 mi
- Plum Branchtown, 10 mi
- Troytown, 11 mi
- Parksvilletown, 14 mi
- Bradleycommunity, 16 mi
- Modoccommunity, 16 mi
- Calhoun Fallstown, 17 mi
- Promised Landcommunity, 21 mi
- Abbevillecity, 21 mi
- Clarks Hillcommunity, 22 mi