Precip at Dugdemona River near Jonesboro321226092480600
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.2 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 Hodge 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. Hodge is 70° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the south-southwest at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 72° by 10 AM. 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 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 90°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 70°. 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 10:53 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 23 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Hodge, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 48, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Monroe (LA), 43 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 47, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.06 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Hodge, LouisianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Hodge, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.8 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Precip at Dugdemona River near Jonesboro321226092480600
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
RustonRSN
At an airfield/18.7 mi away/312 ft/115 ft above here
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Citizen station FW8899FW8899
In a volunteer observer's own ground/39.4 mi away/305 ft/108 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Jonesboro 1.4 SLA-JC-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.8 mi away/255 ft/58 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BienvilleBNVL1
At a cooperative observer's station/14.6 mi away/295 ft/98 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 18.7 mi from Hodge, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:35 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
69.0 F with a dew point of 62.8 F, 81 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,500 ft up.
From the south (170 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Ruston, 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.