LaurelLUL
At an airfield/18.7 mi away/239 ft/108 ft below here
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Weather/Mississippi/Heidelberg
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Heidelberg 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 18 degrees cooler: a high of 70° after 88° today.
Now. Heidelberg is 86° and mostly clear at 1 PM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the west-northwest at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 66° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 49° 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. Air quality is moderate (index 51): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 85°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 70°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:23 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:39 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 1:00 PM in Heidelberg, Mississippi.
Air quality
Index 51, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, Hattiesburg (MS), 43 miles off.
Yesterday measured 67, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
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
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The 6 instruments nearest Heidelberg, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 13.5 miles away.
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LaurelLUL
At an airfield/18.7 mi away/239 ft/108 ft below here
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Desoto National Forest - RAWS Fire WeathLAUM6
A remote fire weather station/26.0 mi away/269 ft/78 ft below here
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Newton 5 ENE63831
At a climate reference station/30.7 mi away/374 ft/27 ft above here
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Citizen station GW5434GW5434
In a volunteer observer's own ground/35.1 mi away/181 ft/166 ft below here
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measured daily2 instruments
Laurel 7.6 EMS-JN-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.5 mi away/262 ft/85 ft below here
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Laurel CoopLUPM6
At a cooperative observer's station/17.0 mi away/233 ft/114 ft below here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 18.7 mi from Heidelberg, Mississippi. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 5,500 ft, scattered at 9,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
87.8 F with a dew point of 61.0 F, 41 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 6,200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 5,500 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 9 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 20 mph.
The full report of Laurel, 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.