TICKFAW RIVER AT Tickfaw River at SpringfieldTSPL1
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.5 mi away/16 ft/15 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Killian until 8 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 16 degrees cooler: a high of 73° after 89° today.
Now. Killian is 85° and mostly clear at 1 PM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the north-northwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 55° 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 Thursday, near 85°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 73°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:30 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:50 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 1:00 PM in Killian, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 45, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, Baton Rouge Area (LA), 34 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 64, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 AM.
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The 5 instruments nearest Killian, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
TICKFAW RIVER AT Tickfaw River at SpringfieldTSPL1
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.5 mi away/16 ft/15 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station DW2721DW2721
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.8 mi away/7 ft/6 ft above here
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At an airfield/14.0 mi away/43 ft/42 ft above here
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measured daily2 instruments
Ponchatoula 5.3 WLA-TG-21
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.2 mi away/12 ft/11 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
PontchatoulaPONL1
At a cooperative observer's station/11.9 mi away/36 ft/35 ft above here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.0 mi from Killian, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 5,000 ft, scattered at 6,500 ft, broken at 7,500 ft; the ceiling is 7,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
85.0 F with a dew point of 64.6 F, 51 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 5,000 ft.
From the north (360 degrees) at 7 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
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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.