At an airfield/0.2 mi away/154 ft/8 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Airports/Mississippi/Greenwood-Leflore Airport
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Greenwood-Leflore Airport until 8 PM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 18 degrees cooler: a high of 75° after 93° today.
Now. Greenwood-Leflore Airport is 70° and clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the south at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 63° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 55): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 86°, and the coolest Saturday, near 70°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 23 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Greenwood-Leflore Airport, Mississippi.
Air quality
Index 55, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Cleveland (MS), 40 miles off.
Yesterday measured 40, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 1 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 | 5,011 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 53° / 233° | Calm | Calm |
| 09 / 27 unlit | 2,689 ft | 60 ft | Asphalt | 88° / 268° | Calm | Calm |
| 18 / 36 | 6,501 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 181° / 1° | Calm | Calm |
The 5 instruments nearest Greenwood-Leflore Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/154 ft/8 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
A remote fire weather station/20.0 mi away/118 ft/44 ft below here
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Sandy RidgeS2109
At a soil climate station/30.1 mi away/138 ft/24 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Greenwood No2GDWM6
At a cooperative observer's station/5.4 mi away/133 ft/29 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Carrollton 7.6 NNWMS-CR-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.9 mi away/407 ft/245 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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Snow on the ground
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.