At an airfield/12.4 mi away/308 ft/130 ft below here
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Weather/Mississippi/Collinsville
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Collinsville 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 68° after 85° today.
Now. Collinsville is 63° and clear at 5 AM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the southwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 83° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° 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 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 83°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 68°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:22 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:36 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 5:00 AM in Collinsville, Mississippi.
Air quality
Index 51, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Ward (AL), 39 miles off.
Yesterday measured 52, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 10 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 5 instruments nearest Collinsville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/12.4 mi away/308 ft/130 ft below here
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Okatibbee Creek At Arundel02476600
At a river or reservoir gauge/14.6 mi away/259 ft/179 ft below here
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Newton 5 ENE63831
At a climate reference station/17.2 mi away/374 ft/64 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Collinsville 0.4 NNEMS-LD-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/418 ft/20 ft below here
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Okatibbee ReservoirMRDM6
At a reservoir/2.5 mi away/390 ft/48 ft below here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.4 mi from Collinsville, Mississippi. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:58 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
61.0 F with a dew point of 59.0 F, 93 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 500 ft up.
From the south southwest (210 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale.
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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.