At an airfield/6.6 mi away/167 ft/43 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Eastwood, Louisiana
Community in Bossier Parish, LouisianaRed Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM FRIDAY TO 1 AM CDT SATURDAY DUE TO WIND SHIFT, MOISTURE DROP AND WIND, LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS, NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST LOUISIANA, SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA, AND EAST AND NORTHEAST TEXAS... * AFFECTED AREA...Portions of south central and southwest Arkansas, north central and northwest Louisiana, southeast Oklahoma, and east and northeast Texas. * TIMING...From 10 AM Friday to 1 AM CDT Saturday. * WINDS...North winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...Relative Humidity between 28 to 69 percent. * IMPACTS...Any fires that develop will spread rapidly. Outdoor burning is not recommended.
Please advise the appropriate officials or fire crews in the field of this Red Flag Warning. Follow all fire restrictions. One less spark, one less wildfire. A Red Flag Warning is issued when we identify weather conditions that promote rapid spread of fire which may become life-threatening. This does not mean there is a fire. These conditions are either occurring now or will begin soon. It is important to have multiple ways to receive information from authorities.
71°
72°/64°
Clear·
Feels like 71°·Calm 1 mph
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Eastwood until 1 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Eastwood is 71° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 60° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° 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. Air quality is moderate (index 60): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 88°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 69°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:40 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:56 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 22 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
60Air quality
86%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
71feels71
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
7264
19mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6950
13mph
UV 8
Sun
Oct 18
7344
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7747
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
8251
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8654
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
8855
overcast
71°
72°64°
69°50°
73°44°
77°47°
82°51°
86°54°
88°55°
As of 12:00 AM in Eastwood, Louisiana.
Air quality
The air at Eastwood
Index 60, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Shreveport (LA), 10 miles off.
60Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)60Moderate10.5 mi
- Ozone21Good2 ppb10.5 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 37, good.
GoodModerate
- 37YesterdayOct 15
- 39TodayOct 16
- 31SatOct 17
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Eastwood
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 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 Eastwood, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Eastwood, LouisianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Eastwood, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Rank137of 933
Precip at Flat River east of Caplis322415093355900
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.4 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station DW8306DW8306
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.2 mi away/159 ft/51 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Haughton 3.7 WNWLA-BS-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/211 ft/1 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BlanchardELCL1
At a cooperative observer's station/7.7 mi away/164 ft/46 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Barksdale AFB, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 6.6 mi from Eastwood, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
70.5 F with a dew point of 66.0 F, 86 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,100 ft up.
The wind
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Barksdale AFB, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Blanchard (ELCL1), 7.7 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 10:30. measured daily
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