At an airfield/12.5 mi away/259 ft/- ft from here
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Theme parks/Louisiana/Gators and Friends
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Gators and Friends until 1 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Gators and Friends is 69° and partly cloudy at 1 PM. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 15 mph, gusting to 35 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 50° by 6 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 88°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 70°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:42 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:58 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 23 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 PM in Gators and Friends, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 28, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, Shreveport (LA), 18 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 55, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Gators and Friends, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/12.5 mi away/259 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW5467DW5467
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.6 mi away/244 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Precip at Boggy Byu nr Keithville322236093491600
At a river or reservoir gauge/14.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Greenwood 3.5 WLA-CD-20
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/270 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Shreveport WfoWFOL1
At a cooperative observer's station/11.5 mi away/289 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Shreveport Wfo (WFOL1), 11.5 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 23:59. measured daily
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.