Bayou Lafourche SW of Donaldsonville07380401
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.4 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Donaldsonville until 8 PM today. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Donaldsonville is 61° and clear at 10 AM. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northeast at 14 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 72° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 52° 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 Friday, near 87°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 75°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:31 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 11:48 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 25 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 AM in Donaldsonville, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 25, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 AM from its reporting area, Baton Rouge Area (LA), 25 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 48, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Mon 7 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Sat 9 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Mon 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Donaldsonville, LouisianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Donaldsonville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Bayou Lafourche SW of Donaldsonville07380401
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.4 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
GonzaleREG
At an airfield/6.1 mi away/26 ft/4 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW2074GW2074
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.0 mi away/20 ft/2 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
DonaldsonvilleDVLL1
At a cooperative observer's station/2.5 mi away/30 ft/8 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
FSA-Donaldsonville 3.7 ELA-SJ-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.9 mi away/15 ft/7 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 6.1 mi from Donaldsonville, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 10:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
61.0 F with a dew point of 42.0 F, 50 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,300 ft up.
From the north (350 degrees) at 14 mph, gusting 25 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 30 mph.
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.