PhiladelphiaMPE
At an airfield/2.0 mi away/449 ft/50 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Weather/Mississippi/Philadelphia
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Philadelphia 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 17 degrees cooler: a high of 68° after 85° today.
Now. Philadelphia is 69° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. The dew point is 61°, 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 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° 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 Thursday, near 85°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 68°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:22 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:37 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.
As of 12:00 AM in Philadelphia, Mississippi.
Air quality
Index 47, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Ward (AL), 54 miles off.
Yesterday measured 44, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 5 instruments nearest Philadelphia, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
PhiladelphiaMPE
At an airfield/2.0 mi away/449 ft/50 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Neshoba RAWSRNEM6
A remote fire weather station/3.2 mi away/587 ft/88 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Newton 5 ENE63831
At a climate reference station/30.7 mi away/374 ft/125 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Philadelphia 0.2 ENEMS-NS-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/525 ft/26 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Walnut Grove CoopWLTM6
At a cooperative observer's station/23.7 mi away/387 ft/112 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 2.0 mi from Philadelphia, Mississippi. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:35 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 5,500 ft, broken at 6,500 ft; the ceiling is 5,500 ft.
69.8 F with a dew point of 60.8 F, 73 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 5,500 ft.
From the south (190 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 16 mph.
The full report of Philadelphia, 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.