At an airfield/1.2 mi away/413 ft/22 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Weather/Mississippi/Fernwood
Fernwood, Mississippi
Community in Pike County, MississippiFire Weather Watch, in full · Every severe alert
...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS POSSIBLE SATURDAY... .A cold front will move through the area later today bringing very dry air with RH values falling into the low to mid 30s along with windy conditions with some gusts around 30 mph. The combination of gusty winds, current drought conditions, ample dry fuel, and very dry conditions will allow any fire that develops to spread quickly. * AFFECTED AREA...Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana, East Feliciana, St. Helena, Washington, Iberville, West Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge, Assumption, St. James, Wilkinson, Amite, Pike, Northern Tangipahoa, Walthall, Southeast St. Tammany, Northern St. Tammany, Southwestern St. Tammany, Central Tangipahoa, Lower Tangipahoa, Northern Livingston, Southern Livingston, Western Ascension and Eastern Ascension. * WINDS...North 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 30 percent. * IMPACTS...Any fire that develops will catch and spread quickly. Outdoor burning is not recommended.
A Fire Weather Watch means that critical fire weather conditions are forecast to occur. Listen for later forecasts and possible Red Flag Warnings.
65°
87°/63°
Clear·
Feels like 65°·Calm 0 mph SSW
Alert. A Fire Weather Watch is in force for Fernwood 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. Tomorrow is 17 degrees cooler: a high of 70° after 87° today.
Now. Fernwood is 65° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 85° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 51° 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.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 86°, 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 10:47 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 25 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
31Air quality
93%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
65feels65
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8763
17mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
7051
14mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
7347
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7748
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
8251
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8552
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
8653
overcast
65°
87°63°
70°51°
73°47°
77°48°
82°51°
85°52°
86°53°
As of 1:00 AM in Fernwood, Mississippi.
Air quality
The air at Fernwood
Index 31, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Baton Rouge Area (LA), 64 miles off.
31Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)31Good-
- Ozone27Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)11Good-
The days ahead
Highest 53, moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 90, moderate.
GoodModerateSensitive groups
- 90YesterdayOct 15
- 53TodayOct 16
- 44SatOct 17
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Fernwood
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Fernwood, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Fernwood, MississippiReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Fernwood, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Rank79of 459
Mccomb Pike County AirportMPAM6
At an airfield/1.7 mi away/404 ft/13 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW0278FW0278
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.6 mi away/459 ft/68 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
McComb 0.6 NNEMS-PK-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.8 mi away/444 ft/53 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LibertyLIBM6
At a cooperative observer's station/21.8 mi away/327 ft/64 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Mccomb/Lewis Field, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 1.2 mi from Fernwood, Mississippi. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Mississippi
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Fernwood
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Magnoliacity, 2 mi
- McCombcity, 4 mi
- Summittown, 7 mi
- Osykatown, 12 mi
- Bogue Chittocommunity, 17 mi
- Tylertowntown, 19 mi
- Libertytown, 21 mi
- Kokomocommunity, 27 mi
- Brookhavencity, 27 mi
- Budetown, 30 mi
- Monticellotown, 32 mi
- Meadvilletown, 33 mi