Tesoro Marine Terminal, Berwick, Atchafalaya RiverNDBC-TESL1
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Golf courses/Louisiana/The Atchafalaya at Idlewild
Fire Weather Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Fire Weather Watch is in force for The Atchafalaya at Idlewild until 9 PM Saturday. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. The Atchafalaya at Idlewild is 74° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 68°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the east-southeast at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 72° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 87°, and the coolest Saturday, near 71°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 29 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in The Atchafalaya at Idlewild, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 29, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Thibodaux (LA), 33 miles off.
Highest 53, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 59, 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 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest The Atchafalaya at Idlewild, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Tesoro Marine Terminal, Berwick, Atchafalaya RiverNDBC-TESL1
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/4.0 mi away/10 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW2074GW2074
In a volunteer observer's own ground/37.8 mi away/20 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Baldwin 1.8 NLA-MY-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.5 mi away/8 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
NapoleonvilleNAPL1
At a cooperative observer's station/25.0 mi away/33 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.