VanceS2035
At a soil climate station/6.6 mi away/150 ft/2 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Weather/Mississippi/Sumner
Now. Sumner is 71° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 54°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the south-southwest at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 58° by 8 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 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 54): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 87°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 68°. 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 10:38 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 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Sumner, Mississippi.
Air quality
Index 54, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Cleveland (MS), 26 miles off.
Yesterday measured 54, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. 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
On the radar over Sumner, MississippiReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Sumner, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
VanceS2035
At a soil climate station/6.6 mi away/150 ft/2 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Vance ScanVNCM6
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.0 mi away/150 ft/2 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW5442FW5442
In a volunteer observer's own ground/24.2 mi away/152 ft/level with here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
ClarksdaleCKM
At an airfield/24.4 mi away/173 ft/21 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Charleston 3.5 SWMS-TL-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.7 mi away/160 ft/8 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LambertLMBM6
At a cooperative observer's station/17.8 mi away/157 ft/5 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 24.4 mi from Sumner, Mississippi. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
73.4 F with a dew point of 53.6 F, 50 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,600 ft up.
From the south southwest (210 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Clarksdale, 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.