Temperature
66 F at 10 PM; 88 F at its warmest, 3 PM, and 59 F at its coolest, 3 AM.
- Now
- 66F
- 10 PM
- Highest
- 88F
- 3 PM
- Lowest
- 59F
- 3 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/Mississippi/Picayune Municipal Airport
Picayune Municipal Airport, Mississippi
Small airport in Pearl River County, Mississippi66°
87°/63°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 66°·Calm 0 mph
Now. Picayune Municipal Airport is 66° and partly cloudy at 11 PM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 65° by 2 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 88°, and the coolest Saturday, near 71°. 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 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 28 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
42Air quality
100%Humidity
42%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
66feels66
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 15
8763
UV 8
Fri
Oct 16
8864
14mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
7153
15mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
7349
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7650
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
8152
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8352
overcast
66°
87°63°
88°64°
71°53°
73°49°
76°50°
81°52°
83°52°
As of 11:00 PM in Picayune Municipal Airport, Mississippi.
Air quality
The air at Picayune Municipal Airport
Index 42, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, New Orleans (LA), 34 miles off.
42Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)42Good20 mi
- Ozone35Good11 ppb20 mi
The days ahead
Highest 71, moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 74, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 74YesterdayOct 14
- 71TodayOct 15
- 53FriOct 16
- 39SatOct 17
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Picayune Municipal Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. 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 Picayune Municipal Airport, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- MJD
- ICAO
- KMJD
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 55 ft
- Serves
- Picayune
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- MJD
- Wind now
- Calm, read 15 Oct, 23:15
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 / 36 | 5,000 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 180° / 0° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Picayune (MJD), Picayune Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 66 F, the air 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 41% at 3 PM to 100% at 12 AM.
- Dew point now
- 66F
- 10 PM
- Humidity now
- 100%
- Humidity, range
- 41 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
Calm at 10 PM; at its strongest 9 mph, 11 AM, with a gust of 20 mph at 3 PM.
- Now
- 0mph
- calm
- Strongest
- 9mph
- 11 AM
- Highest gust
- 20mph
- 3 PM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.05 inHg at 10 PM, steady over 3 hours; 0.01 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.05inHg
- 10 PM
- 3 hours
- +0.01inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- -0.01inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 0.3 miles at 7 AM, under a mile for 2 hours; 9 miles now.
- Now
- 9mi
- Lowest
- 0.3mi
- 7 AM
- Hours under a mile
- 2
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 100 ft at 7 AM; a base was reported in 8 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 100ft
- 7 AM
- Hours with a base reported
- 8
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
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
Picayune: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Picayune Municipal 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
PicayuneMJD
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/54 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Hancock RAWSNNHM6
A remote fire weather station/12.0 mi away/118 ft/63 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Picayune 4.4 SMS-PR-17
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.5 mi away/35 ft/20 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WavelandWVLM6
At a cooperative observer's station/20.8 mi away/19 ft/36 ft below 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 Picayune Municipal Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Nicholsoncommunity, 3 mi
- Picayunecity, 3 mi
- Hide-A-Way Lakecommunity, 6 mi
- Kilncommunity, 14 mi
- Pearlingtoncommunity, 17 mi
- Diamondheadcity, 19 mi
- Wavelandcity, 21 mi
- Bay St. Louiscity, 21 mi
- DeLislecommunity, 24 mi
- Henderson Pointcommunity, 25 mi
- Poplarvillecity, 26 mi
- Pass Christiancity, 27 mi
Airports near Picayune Municipal Airport
- Stennis International AirportHSA, 14 mi
- Gulfport Biloxi International AirportGPT, 35 mi
- Keesler Air Force BaseBIX, 44 mi
- Columbia-Marion County Airport0R0, 57 mi
- Hattiesburg Bobby L Chain Municipal AirportHBG, 59 mi
- Trent Lott International AirportPQL, 67 mi
- McComb-Pike County Airport / John E Lewis FieldMCB, 68 mi
- Hattiesburg Laurel Regional AirportPIB, 70 mi