New RoadsHZR
At an airfield/7.0 mi away/36 ft/4 ft above here
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Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Morganza 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 14 degrees cooler: a high of 72° after 86° today.
Now. Morganza is 76° and overcast at 5 PM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Fresh breeze from the north at 22 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 52° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 51): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 87°, 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 6:34 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:53 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 5:00 PM in Morganza, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 51, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 4 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 1 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 4 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Morganza, LouisianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Morganza, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
New RoadsHZR
At an airfield/7.0 mi away/36 ft/4 ft above here
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Precip at Atchafalaya R at Krotz Spring303242091450600
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
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Citizen station FW0338FW0338
In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.4 mi away/39 ft/7 ft above here
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measured daily2 instruments
FSA-New Roads 0.2 SWLA-PC-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.7 mi away/0 ft/32 ft below here
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Saint FrancisvilleSFVL1
At a cooperative observer's station/13.3 mi away/117 ft/85 ft above here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 7.0 mi from Morganza, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:55 PM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
Overcast at 3,100 ft; the ceiling is 3,100 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
75.0 F with a dew point of 63.0 F, 66 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,100 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 30.09 inHg means its barometer reads 30.05 inHg; it reports 75.0 F, 16.1 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.