Temperature
69 F at 3 AM; 86 F at its warmest, 12 PM Thursday, and 68 F at its coolest, 5 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 69F
- 3 AM
- Highest
- 86F
- 12 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 68F
- 5 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Fire Weather Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Fire Weather Watch is in force for Lafayette Regional Airport until 9 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 15 degrees cooler: a high of 72° after 87° today.
Now. Lafayette Regional Airport is 69° and partly cloudy at 4 AM. The dew point is 68°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 85° by 1 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.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 88°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 72°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:36 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:56 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 27 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Lafayette Regional Airport, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 28, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Lafayette (LA), 3 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 45, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Fri 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04L / 22R | 4,098 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 39° / 219° | 5 mph head, on 04L | None |
| 04R / 22L | 8,000 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 39° / 219° | 5 mph head, on 04R | None |
| 11 / 29 unlit | 5,403 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 110° / 290° | 2 mph head, on 11 | 5 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Lafayette (LFT), Lafayette Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
69 F at 3 AM; 86 F at its warmest, 12 PM Thursday, and 68 F at its coolest, 5 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 68 F, the air 97% saturated; the humidity ran from 55% at 2 PM Thursday to 100% at 5 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
2 mph from the east northeast at 4 AM; at its strongest 5 mph, 2 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.06 inHg at 4 AM, steady 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 5 AM Thursday, under a mile for 2 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 6 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 17 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
Lafayette: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Lafayette Regional Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
LafayetteLFT
At an airfield/0.5 mi away/48 ft/6 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Cade Farm - University Of Louisiana At LCADL1
On a college campus/10.4 mi away/36 ft/6 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Lafayette 13 SE53960
At a climate reference station/10.6 mi away/35 ft/7 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Lafayette 2.9 ENELA-LY-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/41 ft/1 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CarencroCRCL1
At a cooperative observer's station/8.6 mi away/49 ft/7 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
-
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.