West, Mississippi Weather
West, 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 West, Holmes County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near West. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for West is published on the C. A. Moore Airport (K19M) page, 24 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. 4 airfields within reach of West 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 West: Kosciusko Attala County Airport (KOSX) 25 km · Greenwood–Leflore Airport (KGWO) 44 km · City of Eupora Airport (K06M) 57 km
Conditions reported at K19M describe the airfield itself. Weather 24 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at West specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for West.
About West, Mississippi
West in Holmes County, Mississippi, unfolds across a landscape of gentle, rolling hills, where the earth exhales the damp, verdant scent of pine and rich, dark soil after a summer shower. It lies 54.5 miles north-north-east of Madison, MS (from Madison, MS: bearing 21°T), and is situated 9.5 miles north-north-east of Durant. Scattered farmsteads, their white clapboard weathered to the color of old bone, punctuate the emerald expanse, each surrounded by fields of cotton or soybeans that shimmer like a restless sea under the vast, often cloud-streaked sky. The air here hums with the low thrum of cicadas, a constant, pulsating rhythm that underscores the quiet diligence of life, and the infrequent passage of a truck on a dusty county road seems to stir the very atmosphere, leaving behind a faint, sweet perfume of cut grass and distant woodsmoke. The history of West is as deeply rooted as the ancient oaks that stand sentinel along its periphery, a testament to generations who have coaxed sustenance from this fertile ground. The local economy, long tethered to agriculture, continues to draw its lifeblood from the land, with cotton and timber remaining significant, though the subtle shifts in global markets echo in the quiet conversations at the general store. This is a place where the past is not so much a memory as a palpable presence, felt in the weathered planks of old barns and the stoic faces of its inhabitants, a community that carries its heritage with a quiet, unyielding grace, much like the slow, deliberate flow of the nearby Big Black River.
Live animated radar for West 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 | West, Holmes County, Mississippi |
| Coordinates | 33.197072°N, 89.777305°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 39192 |
| Area Code | 601 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This West, Mississippi Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for West, 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 West includes coordinates 33.197072°N, 89.777305°W, situated in Holmes County. ZIP code 39192. Telephone area code: 601. 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.
