A remote fire weather station/7.1 mi away/118 ft/2 ft below here
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Weather/Mississippi/Cruger
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Cruger 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.
Now. Cruger is 71° and mostly cloudy at 1 PM. The dew point is 54°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 11 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 49° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 89°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 72°. 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 10:40 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 21 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 PM in Cruger, Mississippi.
Air quality
Index 25, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, Cleveland (MS), 41 miles off.
Yesterday measured 58, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Cruger, MississippiReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Cruger, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
A remote fire weather station/7.1 mi away/118 ft/2 ft below here
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At an airfield/14.8 mi away/154 ft/34 ft above here
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Silver CityS2086
At a soil climate station/22.7 mi away/115 ft/5 ft below here
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measured daily2 instruments
Greenwood No2GDWM6
At a cooperative observer's station/14.4 mi away/133 ft/13 ft above here
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Moorhead 0.4 NMS-SF-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.2 mi away/118 ft/2 ft below here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.8 mi from Cruger, Mississippi. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 4,100 ft; the ceiling is 4,100 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
70.0 F with a dew point of 50.0 F, 49 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,600 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 4,100 ft.
From the north (360 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 25 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 26 mph.
The full report of Greenwood/Leflore, 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.