Black CreekBLCM6
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.9 mi away/279 ft/28 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/Mississippi/Wiggins
Wiggins, Mississippi
City in Stone County, MississippiRed Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
...RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR INLAND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI DUE TO DRY FUELS, BREEZY WINDS AND SEVERE DROUGHT... The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a Red Flag Warning, which is in effect from 10 AM to 7 PM CDT Saturday. The Fire Weather Watch is no longer in effect. * AFFECTED AREA...Fire Weather Zones 067, 075, 076, 078 and 079. * WINDS...North 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 28 percent. * IMPACTS...Any fire that develops will catch and spread quickly. Outdoor burning is not recommended.
A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions are either occurring now, or will shortly. A combination of strong winds, low relative humidity, and warm temperatures can contribute to extreme fire behavior.
87°
89°/66°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 86°·Light breeze 5 mph WNW
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Wiggins until 7 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 18 degrees cooler: a high of 71° after 89° today.
Now. Wiggins is 87° and mostly clear at 1 PM. The dew point is 58°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the west-northwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 73° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 54° 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 84°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 71°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:24 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:42 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 25 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
7UV High
51Air quality
36%Humidity
23%Cloud
Now
1:00 PM
87feels86
UV 7
Today
Oct 16
8966
19mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
7154
19mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
7350
12mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7549
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
7949
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8251
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
8452
overcast
87°
89°66°
71°54°
73°50°
75°49°
79°49°
82°51°
84°52°
As of 1:00 PM in Wiggins, Mississippi.
Air quality
The air at Wiggins
Index 51, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, Hattiesburg (MS), 34 miles off.
51Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)51Moderate-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 67, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 67YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Wiggins
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Wiggins, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Wiggins, MississippiReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Wiggins, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank123of 459
Citizen station EW2701EW2701
In a volunteer observer's own ground/24.8 mi away/69 ft/182 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/29.1 mi away/151 ft/100 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Tnc Fort BayouS2082
At a soil climate station/35.4 mi away/43 ft/208 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Wiggins 0.5 SMS-ST-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/270 ft/19 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WigginsWIGM6
At a cooperative observer's station/0.7 mi away/269 ft/18 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Hattiesburg Muni, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 29.1 mi from Wiggins, Mississippi. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
Broken at 6,000 ft; the ceiling is 6,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
88.0 F with a dew point of 58.0 F, 36 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 6,900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 6,000 ft.
The wind
From the north (350 degrees) at 8 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Hattiesburg Muni, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Mississippi
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Wiggins
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.