Precip at Calcasieu Rvr Hwy 171 at Moss Bluff301710093112000
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.1 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 Moss Bluff until 9 PM Saturday. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Moss Bluff is 74° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 71°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light air from the south-southeast at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 70° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 87°, and the coolest Saturday, near 72°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 28 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Moss Bluff, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 28, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Lake Charles (LA), 23 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 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.04 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. 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 Moss Bluff, LouisianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Moss Bluff, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Precip at Calcasieu Rvr Hwy 171 at Moss Bluff301710093112000
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station DW3319DW3319
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.9 mi away/25 ft/1 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Lake Charles - Chennault IntlCWF
At an airfield/8.0 mi away/13 ft/13 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Moss BluffMBFL1
At a cooperative observer's station/0.8 mi away/39 ft/13 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Lake Charles 8.3 NLA-CC-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/25 ft/1 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.0 mi from Moss Bluff, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
72.3 F with a dew point of 70.5 F, 94 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up.
From the east (100 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 20 mph.
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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.