Citizen station GW6841GW6841
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.1 mi away/12 ft/9 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Fire Weather Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Fire Weather Watch is in force for Parks 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 17 degrees cooler: a high of 71° after 88° today.
Now. Parks is 70° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 67°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 54° 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 71°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:35 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:56 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, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Parks, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 26, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Lafayette (LA), 13 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 44, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Parks, LouisianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Parks, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station GW6841GW6841
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.1 mi away/12 ft/9 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Precip at Ruth Canal near Ruth301436091530500
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Lafayette 13 SE53960
At a climate reference station/9.0 mi away/35 ft/14 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
LafayetteLFT
At an airfield/9.6 mi away/48 ft/27 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Parks 1.1 NWLA-SM-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/21 ft/level with here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CarencroCRCL1
At a cooperative observer's station/14.9 mi away/49 ft/28 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 9.6 mi from Parks, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
72.0 F with a dew point of 68.0 F, 87 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 900 ft up.
From the north (10 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Lafayette, 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.