Bogue Chitto River at Franklinton02491500
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.1 mi away/124 ft/6 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Bogue Chitto State Park, Louisiana
State Park in Washington Parish, LouisianaFire Weather Watch, in full · Every severe alert
...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS POSSIBLE SATURDAY... .A cold front will move through the area later today bringing very dry air with RH values falling into the low to mid 30s along with windy conditions with some gusts around 30 mph. The combination of gusty winds, current drought conditions, ample dry fuel, and very dry conditions will allow any fire that develops to spread quickly. * AFFECTED AREA...Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana, East Feliciana, St. Helena, Washington, Iberville, West Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge, Assumption, St. James, Wilkinson, Amite, Pike, Northern Tangipahoa, Walthall, Southeast St. Tammany, Northern St. Tammany, Southwestern St. Tammany, Central Tangipahoa, Lower Tangipahoa, Northern Livingston, Southern Livingston, Western Ascension and Eastern Ascension. * WINDS...North 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 30 percent. * IMPACTS...Any fire that develops will catch and spread quickly. Outdoor burning is not recommended.
A Fire Weather Watch means that critical fire weather conditions are forecast to occur. Listen for later forecasts and possible Red Flag Warnings.
66°
90°/64°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 66°·Calm 0 mph
Alert. A Fire Weather Watch is in force for Bogue Chitto State Park 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 18 degrees cooler: a high of 72° after 90° today.
Now. Bogue Chitto State Park is 66° and mostly clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 87° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 52° 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 72°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:47 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 25 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
44Air quality
97%Humidity
18%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
66feels66
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 16
9064
17mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
7252
15mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
7449
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7850
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
8352
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8652
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
8753
overcast
66°
90°64°
72°52°
74°49°
78°50°
83°52°
86°52°
87°53°
As of 12:00 AM in Bogue Chitto State Park, Louisiana.
Air quality
The air at Bogue Chitto State Park
Index 44, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, New Orleans (LA), 51 miles off.
44Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)44Good-
- Ozone40Good13 ppb24.3 mi
The days ahead
Highest 53, moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 74, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 74YesterdayOct 14
- 53TodayOct 16
- 39SatOct 17
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Bogue Chitto State Park
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Bogue Chitto State Park, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 2.82 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 130 ft
- Parish
- Washington Parish
- State
- Louisiana
- Latitude
- 30.7841° N
- Longitude
- 90.1656° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Bogue Chitto State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station GW5825GW5825
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.1 mi away/127 ft/3 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
BogalusaBXA
At an airfield/18.0 mi away/118 ft/12 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Franklinton 0.5 SSWLA-WS-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.2 mi away/156 ft/26 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Covington 4NNWCOVL1
At a cooperative observer's station/17.6 mi away/46 ft/84 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Louisiana
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Bogue Chitto State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Franklintontown, 5 mi
- Folsomvillage, 11 mi
- Riocommunity, 17 mi
- Sunvillage, 18 mi
- Bogalusacity, 18 mi
- Amite Citytown, 21 mi
- Roselandtown, 21 mi
- Covingtoncity, 21 mi
- Varnadovillage, 21 mi
- Tangipahoavillage, 22 mi
- Independencetown, 23 mi
- Abita Springstown, 23 mi