ClarksdaleCKM
At an airfield/5.8 mi away/173 ft/2 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Weather/Mississippi/Lyon
Now. Lyon is 52° and overcast at 6 AM. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 15 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 68° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 42° 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.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Friday, near 87°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 74°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:26 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:35 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 18 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 AM in Lyon, Mississippi.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Cleveland (MS), 35 miles off.
Yesterday measured 30, good.
No smoke near the ground through Mon 1 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Sat 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Mon 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lyon, MississippiReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Lyon, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
ClarksdaleCKM
At an airfield/5.8 mi away/173 ft/2 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
VanceS2035
At a soil climate station/14.9 mi away/150 ft/21 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Vance ScanVNCM6
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.1 mi away/150 ft/21 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW5442FW5442
In a volunteer observer's own ground/24.5 mi away/152 ft/19 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
ClarksdaleCLKM6
At a cooperative observer's station/2.4 mi away/161 ft/10 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Clarksdale 1.9 NMS-CH-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/185 ft/14 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 5.8 mi from Lyon, Mississippi. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 6:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 3,900 ft; the ceiling is 3,900 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
53.6 F with a dew point of 44.6 F, 71 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,900 ft.
From the north (10 degrees) at 20 mph, gusting 23 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 25 mph.
The full report of Clarksdale, 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.