Covington RAWSRHCM6
A remote fire weather station/15.3 mi away/420 ft/9 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/Mississippi/Magee
Magee, Mississippi
City in Simpson 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°
87°/62°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 66°·Light air 2 mph SW
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Magee 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 16 degrees cooler: a high of 71° after 87° today.
Now. Magee is 66° and mostly clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the southwest at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 85° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 49° 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 68): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 87°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 71°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:26 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:42 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 24 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
68Air quality
90%Humidity
26%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
66feels66
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 16
8762
14mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
7149
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
7446
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7846
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
8249
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8549
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
8750
overcast
66°
87°62°
71°49°
74°46°
78°46°
82°49°
85°49°
87°50°
As of 1:00 AM in Magee, Mississippi.
Air quality
The air at Magee
Index 68, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Jackson (MS), 40 miles off.
68Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)68Moderate-
- Ozone27Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)15Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 59, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 59YesterdayOct 15
- 42TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
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 Magee
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 Magee, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Magee, MississippiReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Magee, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Rank134of 459
LaurelLUL
At an airfield/35.6 mi away/239 ft/172 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW9957FW9957
In a volunteer observer's own ground/38.0 mi away/324 ft/87 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Magee 4.0 WMS-SP-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.1 mi away/569 ft/158 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Mize CoopMIZM6
At a cooperative observer's station/8.2 mi away/476 ft/65 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Laurel, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 35.6 mi from Magee, Mississippi. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
64.0 F with a dew point of 61.0 F, 90 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 700 ft up.
The wind
From the east southeast (120 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Laurel, 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 Magee
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Ross Barnett Reservoirfeature, 9 mi
- Mount Olivetown, 9 mi
- Mizetown, 10 mi
- Mendenhallcity, 10 mi
- D'Lotown, 13 mi
- Puckettvillage, 15 mi
- Raleightown, 17 mi
- Braxtonvillage, 17 mi
- New Hebrontown, 18 mi
- Taylorsvilletown, 18 mi
- Collinscity, 19 mi
- Prentisstown, 21 mi