Precip at Atchafalaya R at Krotz Spring303242091450600
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.1 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 Melville 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 72° after 86° today.
Now. Melville is 66° and mostly clear at 4 AM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 52° 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 72°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:35 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:54 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 4:00 AM in Melville, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 25, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Lafayette (LA), 37 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 45, 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 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Melville, LouisianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Melville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 10.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Precip at Atchafalaya R at Krotz Spring303242091450600
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
New RoadsHZR
At an airfield/16.0 mi away/36 ft/6 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW0338FW0338
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.7 mi away/39 ft/9 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Port Barre 0.4 NELA-SL-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.1 mi away/26 ft/4 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
New RoadsNWRL1
At a cooperative observer's station/22.7 mi away/39 ft/9 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 16.0 mi from Melville, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:35 AM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
A few clouds at 12,000 ft; visibility 9 mi.
65.0 F with a dew point of 65.0 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 12,000 ft.
At 36 ft above sea level, 0 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 29.88 inHg and the temperature at 58.9 F; the station's altimeter setting of 30.07 inHg means its barometer reads 30.03 inHg; it reports 65.0 F, 6.1 F warmer than standard.
The full report of New Roads, in 5 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.