Precip at Bayou Mallet at Hwy 91 north of Iota302340092295200
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Fire Weather Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Fire Weather Watch is in force for Iota until 9 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 15 degrees cooler: a high of 70° after 85° today.
Now. Iota is 72° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 68°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 83° by 1 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 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 Thursday, near 87°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 70°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:38 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:58 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 12:00 AM in Iota, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 35, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Lafayette (LA), 28 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 67, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 3 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Iota, LouisianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Iota, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.7 miles away.
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Precip at Bayou Mallet at Hwy 91 north of Iota302340092295200
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Jennings3R7
At an airfield/12.1 mi away/18 ft/11 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW5866FW5866
In a volunteer observer's own ground/25.1 mi away/25 ft/4 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
FSA-Crowley 1.8 NLA-AC-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.5 mi away/20 ft/9 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Crowley 2 NECROL1
At a cooperative observer's station/10.6 mi away/26 ft/3 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.1 mi from Iota, 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.
73.6 F with a dew point of 69.0 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.
Calm.
The full report of Jennings, 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.