Forest Acres, South Carolina Weather
Forest Acres, South Carolina — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Forest Acres, Orangeburg County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Forest Acres. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Forest Acres is published on the Orangeburg Municipal Airport (KOGB) page, 9 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 4 airfields within reach of Forest Acres have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Forest Acres: Dry Swamp Airport (K1DS) 17 km · Mc Entire Joint National Guard Base (KMMT) 43 km · Jim Hamilton L.B. Owens Airport (KCUB) 50 km
Conditions reported at KOGB describe the airfield itself. Weather 9 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Forest Acres specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Forest Acres.
About Forest Acres, South Carolina
Forest Acres in Orangeburg County unfolds as a landscape of subtle, rolling terrain, where the humid South Carolina air hangs thick and sweet with the scent of pine and damp earth. It lies 33.7 miles south-south-east of Columbia, SC (from Columbia, SC: bearing 163°T), and is situated 3.0 miles north of Orangeburg. The light, particularly in the late afternoon, casts a golden haze through the dense canopy of mature trees that give the locality its name, dappling the occasional stretch of well-tended lawn and the quiet, winding roads. Here, the land breathes with a slow, deliberate pulse, a place where the deep green of summer foliage seems to absorb sound, muffling the world into a hushed, verdant embrace. The history of Forest Acres is intimately tied to the agricultural heritage of Orangeburg County, a region long shaped by cotton and tobacco. While the grand plantations of earlier eras have largely receded, the echoes of that past linger in the very character of the land, a quiet testament to generations who worked this soil. Today, the economy of Forest Acres is more diversified, with its residents contributing to the broader economic life of the county, but a palpable sense of continuity remains, a connection to the land that is both practical and deeply ingrained. The rhythm of life here is one of measured progress, a gentle unfolding rather than a hurried rush, where the changing seasons dictate a natural cadence.
Live animated radar for Forest Acres and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Forest Acres, Orangeburg County, South Carolina |
| Coordinates | 33.534876°N, 80.859814°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 29642, 29461, 29732, 29206 |
| Area Code | 864, 803 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Forest Acres, South Carolina Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Forest Acres, South Carolina, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Forest Acres includes coordinates 33.534876°N, 80.859814°W, situated in Orangeburg County. ZIP code 29642, 29461, 29732, 29206. Telephone area code: 864, 803. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/New_York).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
