Onward ScanOONM6
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.3 mi away/100 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/Mississippi/Eagle Bend
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Eagle Bend 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.
Now. Eagle Bend is 65° and clear at 4 AM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 76° by 11 AM. Tonight falls to about 50° 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 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 61): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 89°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 71°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:30 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 4:00 AM in Eagle Bend, Mississippi.
Air quality
Index 61, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Jackson (MS), 51 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 66, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 4 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Eagle Bend, MississippiReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Eagle Bend, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 12.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Onward ScanOONM6
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.3 mi away/100 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
OnwardS2033
At a soil climate station/16.4 mi away/100 ft/1 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.2 mi away/138 ft/39 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
VicksburgVKS
At an airfield/20.3 mi away/99 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Vicksburg City CoopVICM6
At a cooperative observer's station/12.5 mi away/105 ft/6 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Vicksburg 6.9 NEMS-WR-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.1 mi away/270 ft/171 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 20.3 mi from Eagle Bend, Mississippi. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 5,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
64.4 F with a dew point of 64.4 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 5,000 ft.
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.