Every forecast across The Mississippi Gulf Coast,
highway-clear.

Every Mississippi region shares one system — the same maps, the same live radar, the same climate record. The Coast is 62 miles of beach with the Mississippi Sound and four barrier islands in front of it, and the islands are the whole story. They take the first of the surge and they are shrinking, which is why the same storm does more now than it would have in 1969 — and 1969 was Camille. Day to day the Sound runs the forecast instead: it holds the sea breeze offshore until early afternoon, then fires it inland, so Wiggins and Poplarville get the thunderstorm that Gulfport watched build over the water.