PascagoulaPQL
At an airfield/1.6 mi away/16 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Weather/Mississippi/Escatawpa
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Escatawpa until 8 PM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 14 degrees cooler: a high of 72° after 86° today.
Now. Escatawpa is 85° and mostly cloudy at 2 PM. With the humidity it feels like 89°. The dew point is 69°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 73° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 53° 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 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 72°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:22 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:41 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 26 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 PM in Escatawpa, Mississippi.
Air quality
Index 43, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 PM from its reporting area, Mississippi Gulf Coast (MS), 34 miles off.
Highest moderate, Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 56, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 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 Escatawpa, MississippiReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Escatawpa, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
PascagoulaPQL
At an airfield/1.6 mi away/16 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW1604EW1604
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.3 mi away/20 ft/5 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Ms Sandhill CraneSHCM6
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.1 mi away/20 ft/5 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Tnc Fort BayouS2082
At a soil climate station/11.5 mi away/43 ft/28 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Moss Point 1.5 NWMS-JC-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.7 mi away/7 ft/8 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ocean SpringsOCSM6
At a cooperative observer's station/15.1 mi away/23 ft/8 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 1.6 mi from Escatawpa, Mississippi. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 4,000 ft, broken at 5,000 ft; the ceiling is 4,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
84.0 F with a dew point of 69.0 F, 61 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 4,000 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Pascagoula, 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.