Covington RAWSRHCM6
A remote fire weather station/20.9 mi away/420 ft/12 ft above here
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Weather/Mississippi/Bay Springs
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Bay Springs 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 17 degrees cooler: a high of 70° after 87° today.
Now. Bay Springs is 85° and partly cloudy at 2 PM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 49° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 51): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 85°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 70°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:24 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:40 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 24 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 PM in Bay Springs, Mississippi.
Air quality
Index 51, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, Hattiesburg (MS), 45 miles off.
Yesterday measured 67, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 6 instruments nearest Bay Springs, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Covington RAWSRHCM6
A remote fire weather station/20.9 mi away/420 ft/12 ft above here
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LaurelLUL
At an airfield/22.3 mi away/239 ft/169 ft below here
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Newton 5 ENE63831
At a climate reference station/27.3 mi away/374 ft/34 ft below here
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Citizen station GW5434GW5434
In a volunteer observer's own ground/36.7 mi away/181 ft/227 ft below here
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measured daily2 instruments
Louin 3.9 SEMS-JS-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.1 mi away/487 ft/79 ft above here
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Mize CoopMIZM6
At a cooperative observer's station/20.7 mi away/476 ft/68 ft above here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 22.3 mi from Bay Springs, Mississippi. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 5,500 ft, overcast at 7,000 ft; the ceiling is 5,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
83.0 F with a dew point of 64.8 F, 54 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 5,500 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 13 mph, gusting 25 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 25 mph.
The full report of Laurel, 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.