Fire Weather Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Fire Weather Watch is in force for Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport 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 17 degrees cooler: a high of 73° after 90° today.
Now. Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport is 71° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 87° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 53° 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 89°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 73°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:32 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:52 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 26 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 33, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Baton Rouge Area (LA), 6 miles off.
Highest 53, moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 90, moderate.
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 Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04L / 22R | 7,500 ft | 150 ft | Concrete | 43° / 223° | Calm | Calm |
| 04R / 22L | 3,799 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 43° / 223° | Calm | Calm |
| 13 / 31 | 7,005 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 134° / 314° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Baton Rouge/Ryan (BTR), Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
72 F at 10 PM Thursday; 88 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 64 F at its coolest, 4 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 67 F, the air 84% saturated; the humidity ran from 43% at 3 PM Thursday to 100% at 2 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
3 mph from the southeast at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 7 mph, 6 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.07 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.04 inHg over 3 hours; 0.01 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 0.1 miles at 7 AM Thursday, under a mile for 5 hours; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 100 ft at 4 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 11 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Baton Rouge/Ryan: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport, 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 now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.3 mi away/69 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Comite River AT Comite Joor RdCMTL1
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.7 mi away/98 ft/28 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Baton Rouge 4.1 NLA-EB-26
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.1 mi away/85 ft/15 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BakerBAEL1
At a cooperative observer's station/2.5 mi away/90 ft/20 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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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.