Airports/Mississippi/Stennis International Airport
Fire Weather Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Fire Weather Watch is in force for Stennis International 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 16 degrees cooler: a high of 72° after 88° today.
Now. Stennis International Airport is 68° and partly cloudy at 1 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 87° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 54° 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 52): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 72°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:26 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:45 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 27 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Stennis International Airport, Mississippi.
Air quality
Index 52, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Mississippi Gulf Coast (MS), 21 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 67, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 / 36 | 8,498 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 180° / 0° | - | - |
Measured here
Every hour from Bay_St._Louis (HSA), Stennis International Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
68 F at 8 PM Thursday; 88 F at its warmest, 1 PM Thursday, and 61 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 66 F, the air 94% saturated; the humidity ran from 43% at 12 PM Thursday to 100% at 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 8 PM Thursday; at its strongest 9 mph, 12 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.06 inHg at 8 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
Down to 1 mile at 6 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 200 ft at 6 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 7 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
Bay_St._Louis: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Stennis International Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.0 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/23 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Hancock RAWSNNHM6
A remote fire weather station/5.8 mi away/118 ft/95 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Diamondhead 0.9 NNWMS-HC-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.0 mi away/23 ft/level with here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WavelandWVLM6
At a cooperative observer's station/6.6 mi away/19 ft/4 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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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.