Hancock RAWSNNHM6
A remote fire weather station/2.9 mi away/118 ft/52 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/Mississippi/Kiln
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Kiln 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 16 degrees cooler: a high of 72° after 88° today.
Now. Kiln is 75° and mostly cloudy at 8 PM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Moderate breeze from the north at 13 mph, gusting to 32 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 54° 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 83°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 72°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:45 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 27 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 PM in Kiln, Mississippi.
Air quality
Index 39, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 PM from its reporting area, Mississippi Gulf Coast (MS), 20 miles off.
Highest moderate, Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 56, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Kiln, MississippiReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Kiln, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Hancock RAWSNNHM6
A remote fire weather station/2.9 mi away/118 ft/52 ft above here
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At an airfield/3.3 mi away/23 ft/43 ft below here
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Citizen station FW6464FW6464
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.1 mi away/33 ft/33 ft below here
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measured daily2 instruments
Kiln 3.3 NMS-HC-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.6 mi away/90 ft/24 ft above here
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WavelandWVLM6
At a cooperative observer's station/8.7 mi away/19 ft/47 ft below here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.3 mi from Kiln, Mississippi. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 7:50 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 8,000 ft; the ceiling is 8,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
77.0 F with a dew point of 59.0 F, 54 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 8,000 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 21 mph, gusting 32 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 mph.
The full report of Bay_St._Louis, 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.