Lynn Creek - Noxubee RAWSNOXM6
A remote fire weather station/17.6 mi away/295 ft/86 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/Mississippi/Macon
Macon, Mississippi
City in Noxubee County, MississippiRed Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
* WIND...North winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph behind a cold front. * HUMIDITY...Minimum Relative Humidity values between 25 to 40 percent. * FUELS...Critically dry. * IMPACTS...Any fires that develop will likely spread rapidly. Outdoor burning is not recommended.
A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions are either occurring now, or will shortly. A combination of strong winds, low relative humidity, and warm temperatures will create favorable weather for rapid fire growth and spread. Avoid activities that promote open flames and sparks. A Fire Weather Watch means that the potential for critical fire weather conditions exists. These conditions could promote the rapid spread of wildfires which could become life-threatening. Check www.weather.gov/jan/fireweather for forecast updates and a possible upgrade of this watch to a Red Flag Warning.
66°
82°/65°
Clear·
Feels like 66°·Light breeze 5 mph SW
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Macon 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 14 degrees cooler: a high of 68° after 82° today.
Now. Macon is 66° and clear at 4 AM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the southwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 78° by 11 AM. Tonight falls to about 49° by 5 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 Thursday, near 85°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 68°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:20 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:33 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 22 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
44Air quality
84%Humidity
5%Cloud
Now
4:00 AM
66feels66
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8265
18mph
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
6849
15mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
7243
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7545
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7946
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8248
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
8550
overcast
66°
82°65°
68°49°
72°43°
75°45°
79°46°
82°48°
85°50°
As of 4:00 AM in Macon, Mississippi.
Air quality
The air at Macon
Index 44, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Ward (AL), 42 miles off.
44Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)44Good-
- Ozone5Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 52, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 52YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 46 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Macon
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 3 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 Macon, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Macon, MississippiReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Macon, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank77of 459
At an airfield/23.4 mi away/262 ft/53 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
StarkvilleS2064
At a soil climate station/27.9 mi away/340 ft/131 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Citizen station EW0412EW0412
In a volunteer observer's own ground/29.6 mi away/328 ft/119 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Macon 2.3 SEMS-NX-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.1 mi away/202 ft/7 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Macon 3N CoopMACM6
At a cooperative observer's station/2.9 mi away/220 ft/11 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Golden Tri(AWOS), drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 23.4 mi from Macon, Mississippi. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:56 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
65.0 F with a dew point of 60.0 F, 84 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,200 ft up.
The wind
From the south southwest (200 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Golden Tri(AWOS), 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 Macon
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Brooksvilletown, 8 mi
- Shuqualaktown, 9 mi
- Crawfordtown, 14 mi
- Scoobatown, 20 mi
- Artesiatown, 22 mi
- De Kalbtown, 24 mi
- New Hopecommunity, 27 mi
- Mississippi Statecommunity, 27 mi
- Columbuscity, 28 mi
- Starkvillecity, 28 mi
- Bogue Chittocommunity, 29 mi
- Louisvillecity, 29 mi