Pearl River Nr Carthage02482550
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.3 mi away/315 ft/57 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/Mississippi/Redwater
Redwater, Mississippi
Community in Leake 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.
65°
84°/64°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 65°·Light breeze 5 mph SW
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Redwater 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 15 degrees cooler: a high of 69° after 84° today.
Now. Redwater is 65° and mostly clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the southwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 80° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° 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 65): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 86°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 69°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:24 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:38 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.
0UV Low
65Air quality
83%Humidity
14%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
65feels65
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 16
8464
19mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6948
17mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
7344
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7645
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
8047
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8348
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
8650
overcast
65°
84°64°
69°48°
73°44°
76°45°
80°47°
83°48°
86°50°
As of 3:00 AM in Redwater, Mississippi.
Air quality
The air at Redwater
Index 65, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Jackson (MS), 47 miles off.
65Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)65Moderate-
- Ozone22Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)13Good-
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 41 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Redwater
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 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 Redwater, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Redwater, MississippiReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Redwater, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Rank211of 459
PhiladelphiaMPE
At an airfield/24.6 mi away/449 ft/77 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW0149GW0149
In a volunteer observer's own ground/29.4 mi away/334 ft/38 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Walnut Grove CoopWLTM6
At a cooperative observer's station/12.8 mi away/387 ft/15 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Kosciusko 7.2 SSWMS-AT-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.8 mi away/415 ft/43 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The weather at Philadelphia, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 24.6 mi from Redwater, Mississippi. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
Broken at 5,000 ft, overcast at 6,000 ft; the ceiling is 5,000 ft.
The air
68.0 F with a dew point of 60.8 F, 78 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 5,000 ft.
The wind
Calm.
The full report of Philadelphia, 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 Redwater
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Carthagecity, 2 mi
- Standing Pinecommunity, 9 mi
- Lenatown, 13 mi
- Walnut Grovetown, 13 mi
- Sebastopoltown, 18 mi
- Pearl Rivercommunity, 18 mi
- Harpervillecommunity, 19 mi
- Kosciuskocity, 20 mi
- Sallistown, 22 mi
- Hillsborocommunity, 22 mi
- Etheltown, 25 mi
- Philadelphiacity, 25 mi