Citizen station GW6841GW6841
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.5 mi away/12 ft/2 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Henderson 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. Henderson is 53° and clear at 6 AM. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northeast at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 71° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 49° 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 Friday, near 88°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 74°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:34 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 11:51 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, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 AM in Henderson, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 20, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Lafayette (LA), 16 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 38, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Mon 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
0.30 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Sat 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Mon 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Henderson, LouisianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Henderson, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.5 miles away.
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Citizen station GW6841GW6841
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.5 mi away/12 ft/2 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Precip at Ruth Canal near Ruth301436091530500
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
LafayetteLFT
At an airfield/13.9 mi away/48 ft/34 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Lafayette 13 SE53960
At a climate reference station/16.1 mi away/35 ft/21 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Breaux Bridge 0.7 NNWLA-SM-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.5 mi away/21 ft/7 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CarencroCRCL1
At a cooperative observer's station/14.9 mi away/49 ft/35 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.9 mi from Henderson, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 5:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
52.0 F with a dew point of 41.0 F, 66 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,500 ft up.
From the north (10 degrees) at 10 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 38 mph.
The full report of Lafayette, 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.