Temperature
68 F at 10 PM; 91 F at its warmest, 3 PM, and 63 F at its coolest, 5 AM.
- Now
- 68F
- 10 PM
- Highest
- 91F
- 3 PM
- Lowest
- 63F
- 5 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/Mississippi/Monroe County Airport
Coming up. Tomorrow is 13 degrees cooler: a high of 80° after 93° today.
Now. Monroe County Airport is 68° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 62° 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 Wednesday, near 82°, and the coolest Saturday, near 68°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph.
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 south-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 22 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Monroe County Airport, Mississippi.
Air quality
Index 35, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Tupelo (MS), 29 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 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 / 36 | 4,999 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 186° / 6° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Aberdeen (M40), Monroe County Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
68 F at 10 PM; 91 F at its warmest, 3 PM, and 63 F at its coolest, 5 AM.
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 27% at 11 AM to 100% at 1 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 10 PM; at its strongest 7 mph, 11 AM, with a gust of 14 mph at 1 PM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.06 inHg at 10 PM, 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 8 miles at 7 AM; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 7,000 ft at 7 AM; a base was reported in 2 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
Aberdeen: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Monroe County 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 now3 instruments
AberdeenM40
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/222 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
TENN-TOM WATERWAY AT tenn-Tom Waterway at Amory L&D at AmoryLKAM6
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.5 mi away/220 ft/6 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
StarkvilleS2064
At a soil climate station/32.5 mi away/340 ft/114 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
ABERDEEN L & DABEM6
At a cooperative observer's station/3.6 mi away/171 ft/55 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Aberdeen 8.7 EMS-MN-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.6 mi away/355 ft/129 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.