Okatibbee Creek At Arundel02476600
At a river or reservoir gauge/23.0 mi away/259 ft/23 ft above here
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Weather/Mississippi/De Soto
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for De Soto 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 18 degrees cooler: a high of 69° after 87° today.
Now. De Soto is 78° and partly cloudy at 5 PM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 49° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 84°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 69°. 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 10:37 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 5:00 PM in De Soto, Mississippi.
Air quality
Index 36, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 PM from its reporting area, Ward (AL), 53 miles off.
Yesterday measured 52, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 4 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over De Soto, MississippiReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest De Soto, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.7 miles away.
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Okatibbee Creek At Arundel02476600
At a river or reservoir gauge/23.0 mi away/259 ft/23 ft above here
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At an airfield/25.5 mi away/308 ft/72 ft above here
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Newton 5 ENE63831
At a climate reference station/32.2 mi away/374 ft/138 ft above here
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measured daily2 instruments
At a cooperative observer's station/4.7 mi away/217 ft/19 ft below here
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Quitman 3.7 WMS-CK-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.8 mi away/237 ft/1 ft above here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 25.5 mi from De Soto, Mississippi. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:58 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 3,900 ft; the ceiling is 3,900 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
74.0 F with a dew point of 60.0 F, 62 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,900 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 20 mph, gusting 30 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 31 mph.
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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.