Temperature
62 F at 2 AM; 88 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 58 F at its coolest, 5 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 62F
- 2 AM
- Highest
- 88F
- 3 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 58F
- 5 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/Mississippi/Key Field / Meridian Regional Airport
Key Field / Meridian Regional Airport, Mississippi
Medium airport in Lauderdale County, MississippiRed Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
* WIND...North winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph behind a cold front. * HUMIDITY...Minimum Relative Humidity values between 25 to 40 percent. * FUELS...Critically dry. * IMPACTS...Any fires that develop will likely spread rapidly. Outdoor burning is not recommended.
A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions are either occurring now, or will shortly. A combination of strong winds, low relative humidity, and warm temperatures will create favorable weather for rapid fire growth and spread. Avoid activities that promote open flames and sparks. A Fire Weather Watch means that the potential for critical fire weather conditions exists. These conditions could promote the rapid spread of wildfires which could become life-threatening. Check www.weather.gov/jan/fireweather for forecast updates and a possible upgrade of this watch to a Red Flag Warning.
63°
87°/62°
Clear·
Feels like 63°·Light air 2 mph SW
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Key Field / Meridian Regional Airport until 8 PM today. 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 69° after 87° today.
Now. Key Field / Meridian Regional Airport is 63° and clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the southwest at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° 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.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 84°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 69°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:21 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:36 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 23 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
35Air quality
93%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
63feels63
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8762
18mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6948
16mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
7145
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7545
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7947
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8248
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
8450
overcast
63°
87°62°
69°48°
71°45°
75°45°
79°47°
82°48°
84°50°
As of 3:00 AM in Key Field / Meridian Regional Airport, Mississippi.
Air quality
The air at Key Field / Meridian Regional Airport
Index 35, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Ward (AL), 37 miles off.
35Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)35Good-
- Ozone4Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 52, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 52YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 41 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Key Field / Meridian Regional Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Key Field / Meridian Regional Airport, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- MEI
- ICAO
- KMEI
- IATA
- MEI
- Field elevation
- 297 ft
- Serves
- Meridian
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- Yes
- Its own instrument
- MEI
- Wind now
- Calm, read 16 Oct, 01:58
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 / 19 | 10,003 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 9° / 189° | Calm | Calm |
| 04 / 22 | 5,052 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 44° / 224° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Meridian/Key Field (MEI), Key Field / Meridian Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 60 F, the air 93% saturated; the humidity ran from 41% at 3 PM Thursday to 97% at 12 AM.
- Dew point now
- 60F
- 2 AM
- Humidity now
- 93%
- Humidity, range
- 41 to 97%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
Set aside: the gust read 21 mph in 6 reports in a row from 3 PM Thursday, the mark of a sensor that has stuck, so none of that day's wind is counted.
- Now
- -
- Strongest
- -
- Highest gust
- -
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.08 inHg at 2 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.01 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.08inHg
- 2 AM
- 3 hours
- +0.01inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- -0.01inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 9 miles at 12 AM; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 9mi
- 12 AM
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Precipitation
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Wettest hour
- -
- Hours with some
- 0
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Meridian/Key Field: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Key Field / Meridian Regional 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/308 ft/11 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Lauderdale RAWSRLDM6
A remote fire weather station/17.4 mi away/348 ft/51 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Newton 5 ENE63831
At a climate reference station/18.6 mi away/374 ft/77 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Meridian 0.5 EMS-LD-30
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.4 mi away/417 ft/120 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Collinsville CoopCLLM6
At a cooperative observer's station/6.1 mi away/381 ft/84 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Mississippi
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Key Field / Meridian Regional Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Meridiancity, 4 mi
- Nellieburgcommunity, 5 mi
- Mariontown, 9 mi
- Chunkytown, 10 mi
- Enterprisetown, 12 mi
- Collinsvillecommunity, 13 mi
- Stonewalltown, 14 mi
- Toomsubacommunity, 15 mi
- Hickorytown, 16 mi
- Meridian Stationcommunity, 16 mi
- Lauderdalecommunity, 18 mi
- Quitmancity, 20 mi
Airports near Key Field / Meridian Regional Airport
- Naval Air Station Meridian / McCain FieldNMM, 19 mi
- Joe Williams Naval Outlying FieldNJW, 33 mi
- Philadelphia Municipal AirportMPE, 39 mi
- Hesler Noble FieldLUL, 52 mi
- Louisville Winston County AirportLMS, 59 mi
- Hattiesburg Laurel Regional AirportPIB, 69 mi
- George M Bryan AirportSTF, 76 mi
- Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International AirportJAN, 77 mi