Precip at GIWW at Gibbstown295603093044400
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.4 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Fire Weather Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Fire Weather Watch is in force for Rutherford Beach 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 13 degrees cooler: a high of 73° after 86° today.
Now. Rutherford Beach is 75° and mostly clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 74°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light air from the east-southeast at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 56° 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 87°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 73°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:41 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:02 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Rutherford Beach, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 24, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Lake Charles (LA), 42 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 42, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, 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
Facing SSW 193°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
The 5 instruments nearest Rutherford Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 12.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Precip at GIWW at Gibbstown295603093044400
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.4 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/19.8 mi away/16 ft/- ft from here
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Citizen station DW6036DW6036
In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.5 mi away/12 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Bell City 11.9 WSWLA-CM-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.9 mi away/10 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lacassine Wildlife RefugeLWRL1
In a park or preserve/25.8 mi away/7 ft/- ft from 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.