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Point Place, Louisiana

Community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana

Air quality

The air at Point Place

Index 59, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Shreveport (LA), 72 miles off.

59Moderate
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)59Moderate-
  • Ozone13Good-

The days ahead

Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 55, moderate.

Smoke, the next 43 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at Point Place

None in the last 24 hours; 0.18 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours
0.00in
Last 3 days
0.18in

Visibility

How far you can see at Point Place, the next 43 hours

Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 7 AM.

FriSat

On the radar over Point Place, LouisianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture

What is measuring near here

The 5 instruments nearest Point Place, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.8 miles away.

measured now3 instruments

measured daily2 instruments

Natchez 0.3 WLA-NT-7

In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/104 ft/3 ft below here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

Rank-

Natchitoches #2ICHL1

At a cooperative observer's station/9.4 mi away/157 ft/50 ft above here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

Rank25of 933

Station report

The weather at Nattchitoches Regional Airport, drawn

The nearest airport reporting now, 5.5 mi from Point Place, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.

The sky

Scattered at 6,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.

Section of the sky over Nattchitoches Regional Airport, height above the station to scale: scattered cloud with its base at 6,500 feet, and visibility of 10 mi or more.1122334455667788AABBCCDDEE© 2026 STORM STATION 247THE FIELD BOOKSTATION REPORT IERFIG. A THE SKY OVER NATTCHITOCHES REGIONAL AIRPORTSECTION, 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 STATION02,5005,0007,50010,000ETAGESLOWMIDDLETHE STATIONTHE CEILOMETER READS TO 12,000 FT, ABOVE THIS SHEETSCT 6,500 FTSCATTERED, 3 TO 4 EIGHTHS OF THE SKYVISIBILITY, MILES: 10 MI OR MORE0510TITLENattchitoches Regional Airport, the skySTATION REPORT · ASOS IERTYPESECTIONSCALEHEIGHT TO SCALEREVAS REPORTED SHEET 1 of 6DATE2026-10-16IDSR-IER-1DRAWN AS linework on paperSOURCES FB-SKY-001, FB-SKY-013, FB-SKY-014

The air

71.0 F with a dew point of 64.4 F, 80 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 6,500 ft.

Chart of the air at Nattchitoches Regional Airport: temperature 71.0 degrees Fahrenheit and dew point 64.4, 80 per cent relative humidity; air lifted from the station cools along the dry rate and meets its dew point about 1,500 feet above the station, against the lowest cloud reported at 6,500 feet; height to scale.1122334455667788AABBCCDDEE© 2026 STORM STATION 247THE FIELD BOOKSTATION REPORT IERFIG. B THE AIR AT NATTCHITOCHES REGIONAL AIRPORTTHE REPORTED TEMPERATURE AND DEW POINT, AND AIR LIFTED FROM THE STATION WITHOUT MIXING UNTIL IT SATURATES; HEIGHT ABOVE THE STATION TO SCALEFT ABOVE THE STATION01,0002,0003,0004,0005,0006,0007,00050 F60 F70 F80 FSATURATES 1,500 FT ABOVE THE STATION, AT 62.8 FLOWEST CLOUD REPORTED, SCT 6,500 FTTEMPERATURE 71.0 FDEW POINT 64.4 FSPREAD 6.6 FRELATIVE HUMIDITY 80 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 POINTTITLENattchitoches Regional Airport, the airSTATION REPORT · ASOS IERTYPECHARTSCALEHEIGHT TO SCALEREVAS REPORTED SHEET 2 of 6DATE2026-10-16IDSR-IER-2DRAWN AS linework on paperSOURCES FB-WAT-002, FB-ENG-011, FB-ENG-005

The wind

Calm.

Plan of the wind at Nattchitoches Regional Airport, 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 IERFIG. C THE WIND AT NATTCHITOCHES REGIONAL AIRPORTPLAN, 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 FORCE73TITLENattchitoches Regional Airport, the windSTATION REPORT · ASOS IERTYPEPLAN north upSCALENOT TO SCALEREVAS REPORTED SHEET 3 of 6DATE2026-10-16IDSR-IER-3DRAWN AS linework on paperSOURCES FB-EVT-150, FB-ENG-008, FB-INS-002

The full report of Nattchitoches Regional Airport, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it

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Snow on the ground

Measured at Natchitoches #2 (ICHL1), 9.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily

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