Precip at W Fork Calcasieu River at Moss Bluff301748093145600
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.4 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sam Houston Jones State Park, Louisiana
State Park in Calcasieu Parish, LouisianaFire Weather Watch, in full · Every severe alert
...FIRE WEATHER WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FRIDAY... .Breezy and dry conditions due to a frontal passage will combine with very dry fuels and produce red flag conditions across portions of central and southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas through Friday afternoon. A Fire Weather Watch is in place for all of southeast Texas and southwest and central Louisiana on Saturday. The National Weather Service in Lake Charles has issued a Fire Weather Watch for winds and low relative humidity, which is in effect from Saturday morning through Saturday evening. The Fire Weather Watch has been cancelled. * AFFECTED AREA...Fire Weather Zone 031 Allen, Fire Weather Zone 032 Evangeline, Fire Weather Zone 033 St. Landry, Fire Weather Zone 044 Lafayette, Fire Weather Zone 045 Upper St. Martin, Fire Weather Zone 141 Northern Calcasieu, Fire Weather Zone 142 Northern Jefferson Davis, Fire Weather Zone 143 Northern Acadia, Fire Weather Zone 201 Hardin, Fire Weather Zone 261 Southern Jasper and Fire Weather Zone 262 Southern Newton. * TIMING...From Saturday morning through Saturday evening. * WINDS...North 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 31 percent. * TEMPERATURES...Up to 86. * LIGHTNING... * 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.
74°
90°/68°
Clear·
Feels like 74°·Light air 2 mph SSE
Alert. A Fire Weather Watch is in force for Sam Houston Jones State Park 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. Sam Houston Jones State Park is 74° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 71°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light air from the south-southeast at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 70° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 87°, and the coolest Saturday, near 72°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 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 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 28 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
28Air quality
93%Humidity
6%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
74feels74
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
9068
UV 8
Fri
Oct 16
8567
22mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
7254
19mph
UV 8
Sun
Oct 18
7550
UV 8
Mon
Oct 19
8053
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
8457
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8758
overcast
74°
90°68°
85°67°
72°54°
75°50°
80°53°
84°57°
87°58°
As of 10:00 PM in Sam Houston Jones State Park, Louisiana.
Air quality
The air at Sam Houston Jones State Park
Index 28, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Lake Charles (LA), 20 miles off.
28Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)24Good3 mi
- Ozone28Good28 ppb12.7 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide1Good1.6 ppb3 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 42, good.
GoodModerate
- 42YesterdayOct 14
- 50TodayOct 15
- 43FriOct 16
- 35SatOct 17
Smoke, the next 46 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sam Houston Jones State Park
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 9 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 Sam Houston Jones State Park, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 1.61 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 19 ft
- Parish
- Calcasieu Parish
- State
- Louisiana
- Latitude
- 30.2962° N
- Longitude
- 93.2563° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Sam Houston Jones State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station DW3319DW3319
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.5 mi away/25 ft/6 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Lake Charles - Chennault IntlCWF
At an airfield/9.0 mi away/13 ft/6 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Moss BluffMBFL1
At a cooperative observer's station/2.4 mi away/39 ft/20 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Lake Charles 8.3 NLA-CC-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.8 mi away/25 ft/6 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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