Airports/Mississippi/Vicksburg Municipal Airport
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Vicksburg Municipal 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 10 degrees cooler: a high of 70° after 80° today.
Now. Vicksburg Municipal Airport is 67° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 77° by 11 AM. Tonight falls to about 50° 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 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 65): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 89°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 70°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:30 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:46 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.
As of 12:00 AM in Vicksburg Municipal Airport, Mississippi.
Air quality
Index 65, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Jackson (MS), 45 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, 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 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 / 19 | 5,000 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 8° / 188° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Vicksburg (VKS), Vicksburg Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
67 F at 10 PM Thursday; 90 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 63 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 66 F, the air 97% saturated; the humidity ran from 42% at 4 PM Thursday to 100% at 5 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 7 mph, 3 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.04 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; 0.01 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 9 miles at 7 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 4,600 ft at 5 AM Thursday; 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
Vicksburg: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Vicksburg 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 now3 instruments
VicksburgVKS
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/99 ft/7 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Onward ScanOONM6
At a river or reservoir gauge/35.3 mi away/100 ft/6 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
OnwardS2033
At a soil climate station/35.5 mi away/100 ft/6 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Vicksburg 1.7 SSWMS-WR-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.3 mi away/195 ft/89 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Vicksburg City CoopVICM6
At a cooperative observer's station/10.5 mi away/105 ft/1 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.