Port Gibson, MS Weather Forecast and Current Conditions (39150)
Feels Like 103°F
Current Weather
Feels Like 103°F
Forecast at a Glance
This Date in Weather History
1815 - One of the greatest hurricanes to strike New England made landfall at Long Island and crossed Massachusetts and New Hampshire. It was the worst tempest in nearly two hundred years, equal to the hurricane which struck in 1938, and one of a series of severe summer and autumn storms to affect shipping lanes that year.
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Port Gibson 7 Day Weather Forecast Details
Tuesday Sep 23
Day: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 93. Heat index values as high as 102. South southwest wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Night: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 9pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 73. Heat index values as high as 97. South southwest wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Wednesday Sep 24
Day: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms between 8am and noon, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between noon and 1pm, then showers and thunderstorms likely between 1pm and 3pm, then showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy. High near 89, with temperatures falling to around 82 in the afternoon. Heat index values as high as 101. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Night: Showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 68. Southwest wind 0 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Thursday Sep 25
Day: Showers and thunderstorms likely before 1pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 1pm and 4pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 85. West wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 64. North northwest wind 0 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Friday Sep 26
Day: Mostly sunny, with a high near 84. North wind 0 to 10 mph.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 60. North northeast wind 0 to 5 mph.
Saturday Sep 27
Day: Sunny, with a high near 86. North wind 0 to 10 mph.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 60.
Sunday Sep 28
Day: Sunny, with a high near 87.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 62.
Monday Sep 29
Day: Sunny, with a high near 88.
Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 64.
Sun & Moon Monthly
Sunrise 6:54 AM
Sunset 7:00 PM
Last Light 7:25 PM
Moonset 7:54 PM
Contiguous United States Extremes
Mon's High Temperature
107 at Rio Grande Village, TX
Tue's Low Temperature
17 at 14 Miles West-southwest Of Mackay, ID
Weather Folklore
If cumulus clouds are smaller at sunset than at noon, expect fair weather.
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About Port Gibson, Mississippi
Port Gibson is a city and the county seat of Claiborne County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,567 at the 2010 census. It is bordered on the west by the Mississippi River.
The first European settlers in Port Gibson were French colonists in 1729; it was part of their La Louisiane. After the United States acquired the territory from France in 1803 in the Louisiana Purchase, the town was chartered that same year. To develop cotton plantations in the area after Indian Removal of the 1830s, planters who moved to the state brought with them or imported thousands of enslaved African Americans from the Upper South, disrupting many families. Well before the Civil War, the majority of the county's population were enslaved.
Several notable people are natives of Port Gibson. The town saw action during the American Civil War. Port Gibson has several historical sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places (National Register of Historic Places listings in Claiborne County, Mississippi).
In the twentieth century, Port Gibson was home to The Rabbit's Foot Company. It had a substantial role in the development of blues in Mississippi, operating taverns and juke joints now included on the Mississippi Blues Trail.
In the second half of the twentieth century many jobs in agriculture were lost because of industrialization, which, combined with a lack of other jobs, has led to a substantial loss of population and to poverty in the city and the surrounding county. Port Gibson's population peaked in 1950. The last major employer, the Port Gibson Oil Works, a cottonseed mill, closed in 2002.
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