Copiah RAWSCYSM6
A remote fire weather station/6.0 mi away/499 ft/55 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/Mississippi/Hazlehurst
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Hazlehurst 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. Tomorrow is 12 degrees cooler: a high of 70° after 82° today.
Now. Hazlehurst is 80° and mostly clear at 11 AM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the north-northwest at 8 mph, gusting to 18 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 81° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° by 6 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. Air quality is moderate (index 52): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 87°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 70°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:45 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 24 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 AM in Hazlehurst, Mississippi.
Air quality
Index 52, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 11 AM from its reporting area, Jackson (MS), 35 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 66, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 10 AM. 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 Hazlehurst, MississippiReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Hazlehurst, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Copiah RAWSCYSM6
A remote fire weather station/6.0 mi away/499 ft/55 ft above here
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Brookhaven1R7
At an airfield/17.8 mi away/489 ft/45 ft above here
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Citizen station EW5980EW5980
In a volunteer observer's own ground/34.3 mi away/311 ft/133 ft below here
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measured daily2 instruments
Hazlehurst 0.8 WSWMS-CP-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/476 ft/32 ft above here
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Crystal Spring Exp Sta CoopCRSM6
At a cooperative observer's station/7.3 mi away/476 ft/32 ft above here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 17.8 mi from Hazlehurst, Mississippi. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 11:15 AM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
A few clouds at 2,800 ft, a few clouds at 6,000 ft, scattered at 7,500 ft; visibility 8 mi.
From the west southwest (240 degrees) at 9 mph, gusting 15 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 15 mph.
At 489 ft above sea level, 2 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 29.40 inHg and the temperature at 57.3 F; the station's altimeter setting of 30.13 inHg means its barometer reads 29.60 inHg.
The full report of Brookhaven, in 5 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.