Calcasieu River near Oberlin08013500
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.1 mi away/39 ft/31 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Fire Weather Watch is in force for Oberlin until 9 PM tomorrow. 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. Oberlin is 67° and mostly clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 82° by 12 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 90°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 71°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:39 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:58 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 3:00 AM in Oberlin, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Lafayette (LA), 51 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 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.04 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 3 miles Fri 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Oberlin, LouisianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Oberlin, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Calcasieu River near Oberlin08013500
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.1 mi away/39 ft/31 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/10.0 mi away/108 ft/38 ft above here
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Citizen station DW3319DW3319
In a volunteer observer's own ground/35.0 mi away/25 ft/45 ft below here
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measured daily2 instruments
FSA-Oberlin 0.7 NWLA-AL-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/77 ft/7 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Fire TowerOBEL1
At a cooperative observer's station/1.8 mi away/118 ft/48 ft above here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.0 mi from Oberlin, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:30 AM 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.