VicksburgVKS
At an airfield/24.3 mi away/99 ft/83 ft below here
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Weather/Mississippi/Pattison
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Pattison 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 11 degrees cooler: a high of 71° after 82° today.
Now. Pattison is 67° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the south at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 80° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° 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 88°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 71°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:30 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:47 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.
As of 1:00 AM in Pattison, Mississippi.
Air quality
Index 68, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Jackson (MS), 52 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 59, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Pattison, MississippiReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Pattison, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.2 miles away.
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VicksburgVKS
At an airfield/24.3 mi away/99 ft/83 ft below here
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In a volunteer observer's own ground/27.7 mi away/138 ft/44 ft below here
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Copiah RAWSCYSM6
A remote fire weather station/30.2 mi away/499 ft/317 ft above here
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measured daily2 instruments
Port Gibson 1NE CoopPGBM6
At a cooperative observer's station/8.2 mi away/171 ft/11 ft below here
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Fayette 6.0 SEMS-JF-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.7 mi away/464 ft/282 ft above here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 24.3 mi from Pattison, Mississippi. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:35 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
66.2 F with a dew point of 66.2 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground.
Calm.
The full report of Vicksburg, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Port Gibson 1NE Coop (PGBM6), 8.2 miles from here, read 13 Oct, 07:30. measured daily
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.