Brookhaven1R7
At an airfield/2.6 mi away/489 ft/20 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Weather/Mississippi/Brookhaven
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Brookhaven 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.
Now. Brookhaven is 68° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the south at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 63° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 62): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 85°, and the coolest Saturday, near 70°. 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 south-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 26 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Brookhaven, Mississippi.
Air quality
Index 62, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Jackson (MS), 54 miles off.
Highest 51, moderate, today, 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 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Brookhaven, MississippiReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Brookhaven, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Brookhaven1R7
At an airfield/2.6 mi away/489 ft/20 ft above here
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Citizen station FW0278FW0278
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.2 mi away/459 ft/10 ft below here
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Copiah RAWSCYSM6
A remote fire weather station/25.7 mi away/499 ft/30 ft above here
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measured daily2 instruments
Brookhaven CityBRKM6
At a cooperative observer's station/2.7 mi away/446 ft/23 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Brookhaven 4.0 NNEMS-LN-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.0 mi away/485 ft/16 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 2.6 mi from Brookhaven, Mississippi. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:35 PM local time: 3 of its 4 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
At 489 ft above sea level, 2 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 29.40 inHg and the temperature at 57.3 F; the station's altimeter setting of 30.09 inHg means its barometer reads 29.56 inHg.
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 49 degrees above the horizon at 31.61 N, and the day is 11 h 15 min long. Level ground there takes 76 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
The full report of Brookhaven, in 4 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.