Bayou Nezpique near Basile08012000
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.6 mi away/4 ft/57 ft below here
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Fire Weather Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Fire Weather Watch is in force for Mamou 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 14 degrees cooler: a high of 71° after 85° today.
Now. Mamou is 69° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 83° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 51° 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 6:37 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:57 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 AM in Mamou, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 26, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Lafayette (LA), 36 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 44, good.
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 Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.1 miles Fri 6 AM, under a mile for 4 hours.
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The 5 instruments nearest Mamou, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.6 miles away.
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Bayou Nezpique near Basile08012000
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.6 mi away/4 ft/57 ft below here
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At an airfield/18.1 mi away/108 ft/47 ft above here
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Citizen station FW5486FW5486
In a volunteer observer's own ground/32.1 mi away/49 ft/12 ft below here
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measured daily2 instruments
Eunice 7.1 NWLA-EV-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.6 mi away/50 ft/11 ft below here
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Ville PlatteVIPL1
At a cooperative observer's station/9.1 mi away/77 ft/16 ft above here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 18.1 mi from Mamou, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
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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.