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Palmetto, Louisiana

Village in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana

Air quality

The air at Palmetto

Index 28, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Lafayette (LA), 35 miles off.

28Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)28Good-
  • Ozone9Good-

The days ahead

Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 45, good.

Smoke, the next 46 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at Palmetto

None in the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours
0.00in
Last 3 days
0.00in

Visibility

How far you can see at Palmetto, the next 46 hours

Fog: visibility falls to 0.3 miles Fri 8 AM, under a mile for 2 hours.

FriSat

What is measuring near here

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

OpelousasOPL

At an airfield/15.9 mi away/77 ft/43 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Rank444of 933

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

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BunkieBNKL1

At a cooperative observer's station/22.3 mi away/72 ft/38 ft above here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

Rank-

Station report

The weather at Opelousas, drawn

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.

The sky

Scattered at 12,000 ft; visibility 7 mi.

Section of the sky over Opelousas, height above the station to scale: scattered cloud with its base at 12,000 feet, and visibility of 7 mi.1122334455667788AABBCCDDEE© 2026 STORM STATION 247THE FIELD BOOKSTATION REPORT OPLFIG. A THE SKY OVER OPELOUSASSECTION, HEIGHT ABOVE THE STATION TO SCALE, EACH LAYER AT THE HEIGHT OF ITS BASE AS REPORTED; COVER IN EIGHTHS OF THE SKY; TOPS NOT MEASUREDFT ABOVE THE STATION02,5005,0007,50010,00012,50015,00017,50020,000ETAGESLOWMIDDLEHIGHTHE STATIONTHE CEILOMETER READS TO 12,000 FTSCT 12,000 FTSCATTERED, 3 TO 4 EIGHTHS OF THE SKYVISIBILITY, MILES: 7 MI0510TITLEOpelousas, the skySTATION REPORT · ASOS OPLTYPESECTIONSCALEHEIGHT TO SCALEREVAS REPORTED SHEET 1 of 6DATE2026-10-16IDSR-OPL-1DRAWN AS linework on paperSOURCES FB-SKY-001, FB-SKY-013, FB-SKY-014

The air

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.

Chart of the air at Opelousas: temperature 66.4 degrees Fahrenheit and dew point 65.5, 97 per cent relative humidity; air lifted from the station cools along the dry rate and meets its dew point about 200 feet above the station, against the lowest cloud reported at 12,000 feet; height to scale.1122334455667788AABBCCDDEE© 2026 STORM STATION 247THE FIELD BOOKSTATION REPORT OPLFIG. B THE AIR AT OPELOUSASTHE REPORTED TEMPERATURE AND DEW POINT, AND AIR LIFTED FROM THE STATION WITHOUT MIXING UNTIL IT SATURATES; HEIGHT ABOVE THE STATION TO SCALEFT ABOVE THE STATION01,0002,0003,0004,00050 F60 F70 F80 FSATURATES 200 FT ABOVE THE STATION, AT 65.3 FABOVE THIS SHEET: LOWEST CLOUD REPORTED, SCT 12,000 FTTEMPERATURE AND DEW POINT 66.4 F, 65.5 FRELATIVE HUMIDITY 97 PER CENTTHE AIR COOLS ABOUT 5.4 F EACH 1,000 FT IT RISES, AND ITS DEW POINT ABOUT 1 FSOLID: THE LIFTED AIR'S TEMPERATURE; DASHED: ITS DEW POINTTITLEOpelousas, the airSTATION REPORT · ASOS OPLTYPECHARTSCALEHEIGHT TO SCALEREVAS REPORTED SHEET 2 of 6DATE2026-10-16IDSR-OPL-2DRAWN AS linework on paperSOURCES FB-WAT-020, FB-WAT-002, FB-ENG-011, FB-ENG-005

The wind

Calm.

Plan of the wind at Opelousas, north up: calm; beside it the Beaufort scale from calm to hurricane force, force 0, calm, marked.1122334455667788AABBCCDDEE© 2026 STORM STATION 247THE FIELD BOOKSTATION REPORT OPLFIG. C THE WIND AT OPELOUSASPLAN, NORTH UP: THE WIND AS REPORTED, AND WHERE IT SITS ON THE BEAUFORT SCALENESWTHE STATIONCALMBEAUFORT FORCELEAST WIND, MPH0CALM0NOW, 0 MPH1LIGHT AIR12LIGHT BREEZE43GENTLE BREEZE84MODERATE BREEZE135FRESH BREEZE196STRONG BREEZE257NEAR GALE328GALE399STRONG GALE4710STORM5511VIOLENT STORM6412HURRICANE FORCE73TITLEOpelousas, the windSTATION REPORT · ASOS OPLTYPEPLAN north upSCALENOT TO SCALEREVAS REPORTED SHEET 3 of 6DATE2026-10-16IDSR-OPL-3DRAWN AS linework on paperSOURCES FB-EVT-150, FB-ENG-008, FB-INS-002

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

Elsewhere in Louisiana

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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.

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