Calcasieu PassNDBC-CAPL1
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Cameron, Louisiana
Community in Cameron Parish, LouisianaFire Weather Watch, in full · Every severe alert
...FIRE WEATHER WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FRIDAY... .Breezy and dry conditions due to a frontal passage will combine with very dry fuels and produce red flag conditions across portions of central and southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas through Friday afternoon. A Fire Weather Watch is in place for all of southeast Texas and southwest and central Louisiana on Saturday. The National Weather Service in Lake Charles has issued a Fire Weather Watch for winds and low relative humidity, which is in effect from Saturday morning through Saturday evening. * AFFECTED AREA...Fire Weather Zone 055 Lower St. Martin, Fire Weather Zone 073 West Cameron, Fire Weather Zone 074 East Cameron, Fire Weather Zone 152 Upper Vermilion, Fire Weather Zone 153 Upper Iberia, Fire Weather Zone 154 Upper St. Mary, Fire Weather Zone 241 Southern Calcasieu, Fire Weather Zone 242 Southern Jefferson Davis, Fire Weather Zone 243 Southern Acadia, Fire Weather Zone 252 Lower Vermilion, Fire Weather Zone 253 Lower Iberia, Fire Weather Zone 254 Lower St. Mary, Fire Weather Zone 515 Upper Jefferson, Fire Weather Zone 516 Northern Orange, Fire Weather Zone 615 Lower Jefferson and Fire Weather Zone 616 Southern Orange. * TIMING...From Saturday morning through Saturday evening. * WINDS...North 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 35 percent. * TEMPERATURES...Up to 72. * LIGHTNING... * IMPACTS...Any fire that develops will catch and spread quickly. Outdoor burning is not recommended.
A Fire Weather Watch means that critical fire weather conditions are forecast to occur. Listen for later forecasts and possible Red Flag Warnings.
78°
88°/73°
Clear·
Feels like 78°·Light breeze 4 mph SE
Alert. A Fire Weather Watch is in force for Cameron until 9 PM Saturday. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Cameron is 78° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 74°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light breeze from the southeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 73° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 85°, and the coolest Saturday, near 73°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 29 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
28Air quality
98%Humidity
9%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
78feels78
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
8873
UV 8
Fri
Oct 16
8572
24mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
7357
21mph
UV 8
Sun
Oct 18
7555
12mph
UV 8
Mon
Oct 19
7958
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
8362
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8563
overcast
78°
88°73°
85°72°
73°57°
75°55°
79°58°
83°62°
85°63°
As of 11:00 PM in Cameron, Louisiana.
Air quality
The air at Cameron
Index 28, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Lake Charles (LA), 34 miles off.
28Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)24Good-
- Ozone28Good24 ppb24.2 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 42, good.
GoodModerate
- 42YesterdayOct 14
- 50TodayOct 15
- 43FriOct 16
- 35SatOct 17
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Cameron
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. 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 Cameron, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Cameron, LouisianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Cameron, 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
Rank888of 933
Lake CharlesLCH
At an airfield/23.1 mi away/16 ft/15 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW6036DW6036
In a volunteer observer's own ground/25.3 mi away/12 ft/11 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lake Charles 11.5 SSWLA-CM-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.7 mi away/5 ft/4 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Port Of Lake CharlesLKCL1
At a cooperative observer's station/29.3 mi away/36 ft/35 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Lake Charles, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 23.1 mi from Cameron, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
73.0 F with a dew point of 72.0 F, 97 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 200 ft up.
The wind
From the east southeast (110 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Lake Charles, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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Near Cameron
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.