Citizen station GW1868GW1868
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.6 mi away/4 ft/2 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Chackbay 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 72° after 88° today.
Now. Chackbay is 71° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 2 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 84°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 72°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:32 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:52 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Chackbay, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 29, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Thibodaux (LA), 7 miles off.
Highest 51, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 59, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Chackbay, LouisianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Chackbay, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.3 miles away.
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Citizen station GW1868GW1868
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.6 mi away/4 ft/2 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
ReserveAPS
At an airfield/19.2 mi away/14 ft/12 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Bayou Lafourche SW of Donaldsonville07380401
At a river or reservoir gauge/19.9 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
FSA-Thibodaux 0.8 NLA-LF-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.3 mi away/13 ft/11 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ThibodauxTHIL1
At a cooperative observer's station/8.4 mi away/4 ft/2 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 19.2 mi from Chackbay, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:35 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
69.0 F with a dew point of 62.8 F, 81 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,500 ft up.
Calm.
The full report of Reserve, 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.