Temperature
67 F at 1 AM; 91 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 65 F at its coolest, 4 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 67F
- 1 AM
- Highest
- 91F
- 2 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 65F
- 4 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/Mississippi/Tupelo Regional Airport
Coming up. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 65° after 74° today.
Now. Tupelo Regional Airport is 67° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 72° by 10 AM. Tonight falls to about 48° 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 Thursday, near 83°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 65°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:20 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:30 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 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Tupelo Regional Airport, Mississippi.
Air quality
Index 26, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Tupelo (MS), 4 miles off.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. 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 | 7,150 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 180° / 0° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Tupelo (TUP), Tupelo Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
67 F at 1 AM; 91 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 65 F at its coolest, 4 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 61 F, the air 81% saturated; the humidity ran from 32% at 4 PM Thursday to 84% at 4 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
1 mph from the south at 1 AM; at its strongest 6 mph, 1 PM Thursday, with a gust of 14 mph at 10 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.04 inHg at 1 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.02 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 7 miles at 7 PM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 12,000 ft at 5 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 3 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
Tupelo: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Tupelo Regional Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
TupeloTUP
At an airfield/0.4 mi away/338 ft/8 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Met STN At HWY 41 And Natchez Trace PkwyTROM6
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.4 mi away/427 ft/81 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
TupeloTUPM6
At a cooperative observer's station/0.3 mi away/341 ft/5 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Tupelo 3.3 WNW (1W Arpt)MS-LE-11
At an airfield/1.2 mi away/357 ft/11 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.