At an airfield/16.5 mi away/10 ft/3 ft below here
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Fire Weather Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Fire Weather Watch is in force for Charenton until 9 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 71° after 87° today.
Now. Charenton is 70° and mostly clear at 7 AM. The dew point is 67°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the north-northeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 57° by 6 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 85°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 71°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:34 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:55 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 7:00 AM in Charenton, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 47, good, led by fine particles. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Lafayette (LA), 39 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 45, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Fri 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Charenton, LouisianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Charenton, 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 now4 instruments
At an airfield/16.5 mi away/10 ft/3 ft below here
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Precip at Belle Rvr at Hwy 70 near Pierre Part295433091125700
At a river or reservoir gauge/19.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
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Lafayette 13 SE53960
At a climate reference station/25.0 mi away/35 ft/22 ft above here
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Citizen station GW6841GW6841
In a volunteer observer's own ground/32.1 mi away/12 ft/1 ft below here
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measured daily2 instruments
Baldwin 1.8 NLA-MY-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/8 ft/5 ft below here
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At a cooperative observer's station/12.1 mi away/30 ft/17 ft above here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 16.5 mi from Charenton, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 6:56 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
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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.