In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.0 mi away/138 ft/103 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Weather/Mississippi/Bovina
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Bovina 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. Bovina is 67° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the south-southwest at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 77° by 11 AM. Tonight falls to about 49° 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 69): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 88°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 70°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:45 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 1:00 AM in Bovina, Mississippi.
Air quality
Index 69, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Jackson (MS), 34 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 66, 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 Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Bovina, MississippiReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Bovina, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.0 mi away/138 ft/103 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
VicksburgVKS
At an airfield/13.7 mi away/99 ft/142 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Onward ScanOONM6
At a river or reservoir gauge/29.8 mi away/100 ft/141 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
OnwardS2033
At a soil climate station/30.2 mi away/100 ft/141 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Vicksburg 7.6 NEMS-WR-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.6 mi away/238 ft/3 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Vicksburg City CoopVICM6
At a cooperative observer's station/8.5 mi away/105 ft/136 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.7 mi from Bovina, Mississippi. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:35 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
66.2 F with a dew point of 66.2 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground.
Calm.
The full report of Vicksburg, 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.