Pope, Mississippi Weather
Pope, Mississippi — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Pope, Panola County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Pope. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Pope is published on the Panola County Airport (KPMU) page, 17 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 3 airfields within reach of Pope have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Pope: Water Valley Municipal Airport (K33M) 25 km · University Oxford Airport (KUOX) 42 km
Conditions reported at KPMU describe the airfield itself. Weather 17 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Pope specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Pope.
About Pope, Mississippi
Pope rests in a landscape shaped by the slow, patient work of water and earth. It lies 26.6 miles west-south-west of Oxford, MS (from Oxford, MS: bearing 247°T), and is situated 6.7 miles south of Batesville. The terrain here is a gentle rolling, the kind that suggests a deeper history of ancient seabeds and the gradual uplift of the land. Fields of cotton and corn stretch out, their rows a neat testament to the sun and the soil, bordered by stands of hardwood that hold the deep, quiet green of Mississippi. The air itself carries a certain weight, a humid breath that softens the edges of the day, especially as the afternoon sun begins its descent, casting long shadows that pool in the hollows and paint the sky in hues of apricot and pale rose. The story of Pope is tied to the fertile lands that have sustained it for generations, a place where agriculture has always been the heartbeat of the economy. Cotton, in particular, once brought great wealth and shaped the social fabric of the region, its white bolls a familiar sight against the rich, dark earth. While the landscape still bears the marks of this agricultural past, the character of Pope now reflects a more diversified, though still predominantly rural, existence. The quiet streets and the friendly nods between neighbors speak of a community that values connection and the enduring spirit of place, a place where the past is not forgotten but is instead a gentle hum beneath the present.
Live animated radar for Pope and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Pope, Panola County, Mississippi |
| Coordinates | 34.215111°N, 89.947868°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 38658 |
| Area Code | 601, 769 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Pope, Mississippi Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Pope, Mississippi, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Pope includes coordinates 34.215111°N, 89.947868°W, situated in Panola County. ZIP code 38658. Telephone area code: 601, 769. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
