OpelousasOPL
At an airfield/12.6 mi away/77 ft/30 ft above here
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Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Church Point 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 14 degrees cooler: a high of 71° after 85° today.
Now. Church Point is 73° and overcast at 6 PM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Moderate breeze from the north at 17 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 74° by 6 PM. Tonight falls to about 53° 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 Thursday, near 86°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 71°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:37 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:57 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 26 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 PM in Church Point, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 47, good, led by fine particles. Read at 6 PM from its reporting area, Lafayette (LA), 17 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 45, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 5 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Church Point, LouisianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Church Point, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
OpelousasOPL
At an airfield/12.6 mi away/77 ft/30 ft above here
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Citizen station FW5486FW5486
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.1 mi away/49 ft/2 ft above here
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Vermilion River (B. Vermilion) near Carencro07386600
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
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Lafayette 13 SE53960
At a climate reference station/30.0 mi away/35 ft/12 ft below here
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measured daily2 instruments
Church Point 0.7 WSWLA-AC-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/49 ft/2 ft above here
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CarencroCRCL1
At a cooperative observer's station/11.6 mi away/49 ft/2 ft above here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.6 mi from Church Point, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 6:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 3,500 ft; the ceiling is 3,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
69.0 F with a dew point of 57.2 F, 66 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,500 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 17 mph, gusting 24 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 29 mph.
The full report of Opelousas, 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.