Beasley Lake ScanBSYM6
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.5 mi away/115 ft/2 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/Mississippi/Arcola
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Arcola until 8 PM tomorrow. 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 19 degrees cooler: a high of 74° after 93° today.
Now. Arcola is 74° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 51°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 66° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 55): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 86°, and the coolest Saturday, near 69°. 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 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 10:00 PM in Arcola, Mississippi.
Air quality
Index 55, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Cleveland (MS), 34 miles off.
Yesterday measured 40, good.
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 Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Arcola, MississippiReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Arcola, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 9.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Beasley Lake ScanBSYM6
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.5 mi away/115 ft/2 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beasley LakeS2032
At a soil climate station/15.5 mi away/115 ft/2 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
At an airfield/15.9 mi away/131 ft/14 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Leland 0.3 NWMS-WS-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.6 mi away/128 ft/11 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Stoneville Exp Station CoopSTNM6
At a cooperative observer's station/11.3 mi away/121 ft/4 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 15.9 mi from Arcola, Mississippi. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 9:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
72.0 F with a dew point of 51.0 F, 48 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,800 ft up.
From the southwest (220 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 22 mph.
The full report of Greenville Muni, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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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.