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A remote fire weather station/25.6 mi away/420 ft/91 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/Mississippi/Mendenhall
Mendenhall, 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.
67°
85°/64°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 67°·Light air 4 mph SSW
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Mendenhall 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 71° after 85° today.
Now. Mendenhall is 67° and partly cloudy at 2 AM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the south-southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 82° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° 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 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 69): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 88°, 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
69Air quality
81%Humidity
46%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
67feels67
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 16
8564
17mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
7150
13mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
7445
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7947
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
8350
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8651
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
8852
overcast
67°
85°64°
71°50°
74°45°
79°47°
83°50°
86°51°
88°52°
As of 2:00 AM in Mendenhall, Mississippi.
Air quality
The air at Mendenhall
Index 69, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Jackson (MS), 31 miles off.
69Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)69Moderate-
- Ozone22Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)16Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 66, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 66YesterdayOct 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 Mendenhall
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 Mendenhall, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Mendenhall, MississippiReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Mendenhall, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.7 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Rank134of 459
At an airfield/27.5 mi away/331 ft/2 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW9957FW9957
In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.9 mi away/324 ft/5 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Magee 4.0 WMS-SP-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.7 mi away/569 ft/240 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
P Harrison Dry Ck Wp CoopPDCM6
At a cooperative observer's station/17.1 mi away/512 ft/183 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Jackson/Thompson, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 27.5 mi from Mendenhall, Mississippi. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:54 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
68.0 F with a dew point of 62.0 F, 81 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,400 ft up.
The wind
From the south southwest (210 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Jackson/Thompson, 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 Mendenhall
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- D'Lotown, 2 mi
- Braxtonvillage, 7 mi
- Puckettvillage, 10 mi
- Mageecity, 10 mi
- New Hebrontown, 17 mi
- Robinhoodcommunity, 18 mi
- Georgetowntown, 18 mi
- Ross Barnett Reservoirfeature, 19 mi
- Mount Olivetown, 19 mi
- Florencecity, 19 mi
- Mizetown, 20 mi
- Polkvilletown, 20 mi