Citizen station FW8899FW8899
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.9 mi away/305 ft/32 ft below here
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Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Mount Lebanon until 1 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Mount Lebanon is 68° and overcast at 10 AM. The dew point is 56°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the north at 10 mph, gusting to 22 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 71° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° 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 87°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 70°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:38 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 22 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 AM in Mount Lebanon, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 AM from its reporting area, Shreveport (LA), 40 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 55, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.07 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 9 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Mount Lebanon, LouisianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Mount Lebanon, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.7 miles away.
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Citizen station FW8899FW8899
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.9 mi away/305 ft/32 ft below here
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MindenMNE
At an airfield/16.8 mi away/278 ft/59 ft below here
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Precip at Black Lake Bayou north of Castor321750093111800
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.9 mi away/-/- ft from here
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measured daily2 instruments
Arcadia 0.5 SSWLA-BV-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.7 mi away/410 ft/73 ft above here
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ArcadiaARCL1
At a cooperative observer's station/8.4 mi away/397 ft/60 ft above here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 16.8 mi from Mount Lebanon, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 10:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 2,400 ft; the ceiling is 2,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
68.0 F with a dew point of 53.6 F, 60 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,300 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,400 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 12 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 20 mph.
The full report of Minden, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Arcadia (ARCL1), 8.4 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.