Citizen station FW7886FW7886
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.4 mi away/19 ft/2 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Fire Weather Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Fire Weather Watch is in force for Bayou Goula until 8 PM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 16 degrees cooler: a high of 73° after 89° today.
Now. Bayou Goula is 71° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 67°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 87° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 55° 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 87°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 73°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:33 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 27 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Bayou Goula, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Baton Rouge Area (LA), 16 miles off.
Highest 53, moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 90, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 44 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Bayou Goula, LouisianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Bayou Goula, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station FW7886FW7886
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.4 mi away/19 ft/2 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Precip at Choctaw Bayou W of White Castle300735091163500
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
GonzaleREG
At an airfield/15.2 mi away/26 ft/9 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
CarvilleCRVL1
At a cooperative observer's station/3.6 mi away/24 ft/7 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Plaquemine 2.7 ELA-IV-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.9 mi away/36 ft/19 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 15.2 mi from Bayou Goula, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
68.4 F with a dew point of 67.6 F, 97 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 200 ft up.
Calm.
The full report of Gonzale, 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.