PascagoulaPQL
At an airfield/2.2 mi away/16 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Weather/Mississippi/Helena
Helena, Mississippi
Community in Jackson 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...Pearl River, Hancock, Harrison and Jackson. * WINDS...North 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 32 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.
67°
86°/65°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 67°·Calm 0 mph SE
Alert. A Fire Weather Watch is in force for Helena 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 15 degrees cooler: a high of 71° after 86° today.
Now. Helena is 67° and mostly clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 67°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 85° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 53° 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 53): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 71°. 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 10:41 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 26 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
53Air quality
97%Humidity
36%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
67feels67
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 16
8665
24%
14mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
7153
12%
17mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
7250
12mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7550
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7852
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7952
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
8053
overcast
67°
86°65°
71°53°
72°50°
75°50°
78°52°
79°52°
80°53°
As of 2:00 AM in Helena, Mississippi.
Air quality
The air at Helena
Index 53, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Mississippi Gulf Coast (MS), 36 miles off.
53Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)53Moderate7.9 mi
- Ozone24Good26 ppb7.9 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide3Good3.5 ppb7.9 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.4 ppb7.9 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 56, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 56YesterdayOct 15
- 42TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 42 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Helena
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 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 Helena, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 2 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Helena, MississippiReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Helena, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank408of 459
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.1 mi away/9 ft/6 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW1604EW1604
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.7 mi away/20 ft/5 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Tnc Fort BayouS2082
At a soil climate station/13.9 mi away/43 ft/28 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Moss Point 5.4 NEMS-JC-41
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.5 mi away/11 ft/4 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ocean SpringsOCSM6
At a cooperative observer's station/17.5 mi away/23 ft/8 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Pascagoula, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 2.2 mi from Helena, Mississippi. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
Scattered at 5,000 ft; visibility 2 mi.
The air
67.0 F with a dew point of 67.0 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 5,000 ft.
The wind
Calm.
The full report of Pascagoula, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Mississippi
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Helena
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Escatawpacommunity, 2 mi
- Moss Pointcity, 6 mi
- Big Pointcommunity, 7 mi
- Pascagoulacity, 9 mi
- Vancleavecommunity, 10 mi
- Gautiercity, 10 mi
- Wadecommunity, 11 mi
- Hurleycommunity, 13 mi
- Mississippi Soundfeature, 15 mi
- Gulf Park Estatescommunity, 17 mi
- Ocean Springscity, 17 mi
- Gulf Hillscommunity, 19 mi