Black CreekBLCM6
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.1 mi away/279 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beaches/Mississippi/Perk Beach
Alert. A Fire Weather Watch is in force for Perk Beach until 7 PM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Perk Beach is 71° and clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the south-southwest at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 66° by 4 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 89°, and the coolest Saturday, near 71°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and sets at 9:49 PM. 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 27 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Perk Beach, Mississippi.
Air quality
Index 46, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Mississippi Gulf Coast (MS), 29 miles off.
Highest 51, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 67, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Perk Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Black CreekBLCM6
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.1 mi away/279 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW2701EW2701
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.5 mi away/69 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/26.9 mi away/30 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Tnc Fort BayouS2082
At a soil climate station/32.2 mi away/43 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Perkinston 1.7 NEMS-ST-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/141 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WigginsWIGM6
At a cooperative observer's station/5.1 mi away/269 ft/- ft from 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.