Bayou Nezpique near Basile08012000
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.0 mi away/4 ft/40 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Basile until 8 PM today. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Basile is 59° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northeast at 15 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 71° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 49° 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 Friday, near 88°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 74°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:37 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 11:54 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 24 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Basile, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Lafayette (LA), 38 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 45, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Sat 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Basile, LouisianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Basile, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Bayou Nezpique near Basile08012000
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.0 mi away/4 ft/40 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Jennings3R7
At an airfield/17.3 mi away/18 ft/26 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW7757GW7757
In a volunteer observer's own ground/35.4 mi away/30 ft/14 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Eunice 7.1 NWLA-EV-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.3 mi away/50 ft/6 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Fire TowerOBEL1
At a cooperative observer's station/13.6 mi away/118 ft/74 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 17.3 mi from Basile, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 1:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
59.7 F with a dew point of 38.3 F, 45 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,900 ft up.
From the north northeast (30 degrees) at 14 mph, gusting 23 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 24 mph.
The full report of Jennings, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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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.