Temperature
68 F at 10 PM; 90 F at its warmest, 2 PM, and 61 F at its coolest, 4 AM.
- Now
- 68F
- 10 PM
- Highest
- 90F
- 2 PM
- Lowest
- 61F
- 4 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/Mississippi/Bruce Campbell Field
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Bruce Campbell Field 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 9 degrees cooler: a high of 83° after 92° today.
Now. Bruce Campbell Field is 69° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 64° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 62): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 87°, and the coolest Saturday, near 71°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 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 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 25 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Bruce Campbell Field, Mississippi.
Air quality
Index 62, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Jackson (MS), 9 miles off.
Highest 51, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 59, 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 Thu 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 / 35 | 4,444 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 175° / 355° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Madison (MBO), Bruce Campbell Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
68 F at 10 PM; 90 F at its warmest, 2 PM, and 61 F at its coolest, 4 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 61 F, the air 78% saturated; the humidity ran from 33% at 4 PM to 96% at 7 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 10 PM; at its strongest 6 mph, 11 AM, with a gust of 13 mph at 11 AM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.05 inHg at 10 PM, rising 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; the same as 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 3,400 ft at 11 PM Wednesday; 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
Madison: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Bruce Campbell Field, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
MadisonMBO
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/327 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Bienville National Forest/RAWS Fire WeatFSTM6
A remote fire weather station/36.9 mi away/456 ft/130 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
MaydayS2110
At a soil climate station/38.0 mi away/108 ft/218 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Madison 1.3 SEMS-MD-32
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/322 ft/4 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Canton CoopCNTM6
At a cooperative observer's station/16.5 mi away/256 ft/70 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.