Citizen station FW7886FW7886
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.8 mi away/19 ft/6 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Now. Plaquemine Lock State Historic Site is 70° and clear at 12 PM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 75° by 3 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 78°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:31 PM. The Moon is a first quarter, 52% lit, and sets at 12:46 AM after midnight. 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 bright Moon hides all but the brightest of them. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 23 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 PM in Plaquemine Lock State Historic Site, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 28, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 AM from its reporting area, Baton Rouge Area (LA), 13 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 30, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Tue 7 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Sun 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Tue 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Plaquemine Lock State Historic Site, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station FW7886FW7886
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.8 mi away/19 ft/6 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Bayou Fountain at Bluebonnet Blvd near B.R.07378810
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.9 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/17.8 mi away/69 ft/44 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Plaquemine 0.6 NNELA-IV-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.0 mi away/20 ft/5 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
PlaqueminePQML1
At a cooperative observer's station/2.3 mi away/20 ft/5 ft below 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.