Airports/Mississippi/Roscoe Turner Airport
Now. Roscoe Turner Airport is 66° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the south at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 68° by 12 AM. Tonight falls to about 46° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 64°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:18 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:28 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 18 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Roscoe Turner Airport, Mississippi.
Air quality
Index 33, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Tupelo (MS), 45 miles off.
Yesterday measured 44, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 / 36 unlit | 6,500 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 174° / 354° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Corinth (CRX), Roscoe Turner Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
66 F at 10 PM Thursday; 93 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 66 F at its coolest, 2 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 64 F, the air 94% saturated; the humidity ran from 34% at 3 PM Thursday to 100% at 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
2 mph from the southeast at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 11 mph, 1 PM Thursday, with a gust of 22 mph at 2 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.04 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, steady over 3 hours; 0.01 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
10 miles or more every hour.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 7,500 ft at 10 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 9 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Corinth: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Roscoe Turner Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
CorinthCRX
At an airfield/0.4 mi away/423 ft/2 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Tishomingo RAWSTISM6
A remote fire weather station/23.5 mi away/627 ft/202 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Corinth 5.1 WSW (Airport)MS-AC-4
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/411 ft/14 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CorinthCORM6
At a cooperative observer's station/0.2 mi away/410 ft/15 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Corinth (CORM6), 0.2 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 09:30. 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.