Precip at Bayou Teche at Port Barre303329091572900
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.4 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 Palmetto 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 13 degrees cooler: a high of 72° after 85° today.
Now. Palmetto is 66° and mostly clear at 4 AM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 83° by 1 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 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 25 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Palmetto, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 28, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Lafayette (LA), 35 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 45, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Fog: visibility falls to 0.3 miles Fri 8 AM, under a mile for 2 hours.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Palmetto, LouisianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Palmetto, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 11.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Precip at Bayou Teche at Port Barre303329091572900
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.4 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
OpelousasOPL
At an airfield/15.9 mi away/77 ft/43 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW0338FW0338
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.9 mi away/39 ft/5 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/11.1 mi away/26 ft/8 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BunkieBNKL1
At a cooperative observer's station/22.3 mi away/72 ft/38 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 15.9 mi from Palmetto, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 12,000 ft; visibility 7 mi.
66.4 F with a dew point of 65.5 F, 97 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 12,000 ft.
Calm.
The full report of Opelousas, in 6 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.