At an airfield/19.7 mi away/534 ft/313 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Weather/Mississippi/Shuqualak
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Shuqualak 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 16 degrees cooler: a high of 68° after 84° today.
Now. Shuqualak is 67° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 81° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° 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 84°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 68°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:20 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:34 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 22 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Shuqualak, Mississippi.
Air quality
Index 42, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Ward (AL), 34 miles off.
Yesterday measured 44, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Shuqualak, MississippiReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Shuqualak, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/19.7 mi away/534 ft/313 ft above here
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Lynn Creek - Noxubee RAWSNOXM6
A remote fire weather station/24.0 mi away/295 ft/74 ft above here
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StarkvilleS2064
At a soil climate station/35.9 mi away/340 ft/119 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Citizen station EW0412EW0412
In a volunteer observer's own ground/38.0 mi away/328 ft/107 ft above here
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measured daily2 instruments
Macon 2.3 SEMS-NX-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.8 mi away/202 ft/19 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Macon 3N CoopMACM6
At a cooperative observer's station/12.0 mi away/220 ft/1 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 19.7 mi from Shuqualak, Mississippi. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:57 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
70.0 F with a dew point of 60.0 F, 71 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,300 ft up.
From the south southwest (210 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Meridian Range, 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.