Calcasieu River near Kinder08015500
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.3 mi away/11 ft/36 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Fire Weather Watch is in force for Kinder until 9 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 14 degrees cooler: a high of 71° after 85° today.
Now. Kinder is 72° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 67°, 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 88°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 71°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:39 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:59 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 Kinder, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 25, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Lake Charles (LA), 47 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 42, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Kinder, LouisianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Kinder, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.3 miles away.
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Calcasieu River near Kinder08015500
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.3 mi away/11 ft/36 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Jennings3R7
At an airfield/19.7 mi away/18 ft/29 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW3319DW3319
In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.6 mi away/25 ft/22 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Fire TowerOBEL1
At a cooperative observer's station/8.8 mi away/118 ft/71 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
FSA-Oberlin 0.7 NWLA-AL-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.6 mi away/77 ft/30 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 19.7 mi from Kinder, 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.