Precip at Black Lake Bayou north of Castor321750093111800
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Ashland, Louisiana
Village in Natchitoches Parish, LouisianaRed Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 1 AM CDT SATURDAY DUE TO WIND SHIFT, MOISTURE DROP AND WIND, LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS, NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST LOUISIANA, SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA, AND EAST AND NORTHEAST TEXAS... * AFFECTED AREA...Portions of south central and southwest Arkansas, north central and northwest Louisiana, southeast Oklahoma, and east and northeast Texas. * TIMING...From 10 AM this morning to 1 AM CDT Saturday. * WINDS...North winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...Relative Humidity between 30 to 72 percent. * IMPACTS...Any fires that develop will spread rapidly. Outdoor burning is not recommended.
Please advise the appropriate officials or fire crews in the field of this Red Flag Warning. Follow all fire restrictions. One less spark, one less wildfire. A Red Flag Warning is issued when we identify weather conditions that promote rapid spread of fire which may become life-threatening. This does not mean there is a fire. These conditions are either occurring now or will begin soon. It is important to have multiple ways to receive information from authorities.
72°
76°/64°
Overcast·
Feels like 72°·Moderate breeze 13 mph NNW
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Ashland 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. Ashland is 72° and overcast at 11 AM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 73° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° 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 6, 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 6:39 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:55 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.
4UV Moderate
22Air quality
75%Humidity
99%Cloud
Now
11:00 AM
72feels72
13mph
Today
Oct 16
7664
16mph
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
7050
12mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
7345
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7746
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
8148
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8550
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
8852
overcast
72°
76°64°
70°50°
73°45°
77°46°
81°48°
85°50°
88°52°
As of 11:00 AM in Ashland, Louisiana.
Air quality
The air at Ashland
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 AM from its reporting area, Shreveport (LA), 47 miles off.
22Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)9Good-
- Ozone22Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 55, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 55YesterdayOct 15
- 39TodayOct 16
- 31SatOct 17
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Ashland
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 10 AM. 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 Ashland, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
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Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Ashland, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Rank559of 933
Nattchitoches Regional AirportIER
At an airfield/26.6 mi away/121 ft/58 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW8899FW8899
In a volunteer observer's own ground/36.1 mi away/305 ft/126 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Martin 1.7 ESELA-RR-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.2 mi away/213 ft/34 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
JamestownJMSL1
At a cooperative observer's station/16.6 mi away/226 ft/47 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Nattchitoches Regional Airport, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 26.6 mi from Ashland, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 11:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
Overcast at 2,100 ft; the ceiling is 2,100 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
70.7 F with a dew point of 62.4 F, 75 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,100 ft.
The wind
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 8 mph, gusting 20 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 25 mph.
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Jamestown (JMSL1), 16.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
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Near Ashland
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.