At an airfield/14.9 mi away/154 ft/27 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Weather/Mississippi/Mississippi Valley State University
Now. Mississippi Valley State University is 71° and clear at 2 PM. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east-southeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 46° 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.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Saturday, near 87°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 77°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:24 PM. The Moon is a first quarter, 52% lit, and sets at 12:35 AM after midnight. 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 bright Moon hides all but the brightest of them. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 PM in Mississippi Valley State University, Mississippi.
Air quality
Index 33, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 PM from its reporting area, Cleveland (MS), 27 miles off.
Yesterday measured 32, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Tue 7 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Sun 1 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Tue 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Mississippi Valley State University, MississippiReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Mississippi Valley State University, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 9.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/14.9 mi away/154 ft/27 ft above here
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Sandy Ridge ScanSRXM6
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.7 mi away/138 ft/11 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sandy RidgeS2109
At a soil climate station/16.7 mi away/138 ft/11 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Citizen station FW5442FW5442
In a volunteer observer's own ground/38.6 mi away/152 ft/25 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Greenwood No2GDWM6
At a cooperative observer's station/9.6 mi away/133 ft/6 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Moorhead 0.4 NMS-SF-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.3 mi away/118 ft/9 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.9 mi from Mississippi Valley State University, Mississippi. From its report of Oct 18, 2026, 1:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft.
71.0 F with a dew point of 41.0 F, 34 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 6,800 ft up.
Calm.
The full report of Greenwood/Leflore, 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.