At an airfield/6.7 mi away/10 ft/2 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Bayou Cane until 3 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 16 degrees cooler: a high of 71° after 87° today.
Now. Bayou Cane is 84° and mostly clear at 12 PM. With the humidity it feels like 87°. The dew point is 70°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the north at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 56° 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 83°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 71°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:32 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:53 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 28 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 PM in Bayou Cane, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 49, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Thibodaux (LA), 9 miles off.
Highest 51, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 45, good.
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 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Bayou Cane, LouisianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Bayou Cane, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/6.7 mi away/10 ft/2 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW1868GW1868
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.0 mi away/4 ft/4 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
West Bank 1, Bayou GaucheNDBC-BYGL1
At a river or reservoir gauge/22.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Houma 4.4 NNWLA-TR-15
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/18 ft/10 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ThibodauxTHIL1
At a cooperative observer's station/9.0 mi away/4 ft/4 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 6.7 mi from Bayou Cane, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 11:47 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 2,700 ft; visibility 7 mi.
84.2 F with a dew point of 69.8 F, 62 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,700 ft.
From the north (360 degrees) at 7 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Houma-Terrebonne, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
-
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.