Muddy Creek at Hwy 42 near Oak Grove07380106
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.5 mi away/5 ft/16 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Prairieville until 8 PM today. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Prairieville is 63° and mostly clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 9 mph, gusting to 28 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 72° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 52° by 6 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. Air quality is moderate (index 52): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Friday, near 88°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 75°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:31 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 11:48 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 12:00 AM in Prairieville, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 52, moderate, led by coarse particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Baton Rouge Area (LA), 14 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 64, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Prairieville, LouisianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Prairieville, 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
Muddy Creek at Hwy 42 near Oak Grove07380106
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.5 mi away/5 ft/16 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW4455FW4455
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/22 ft/1 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
GonzaleREG
At an airfield/10.3 mi away/26 ft/5 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Prairieville 1.4 NELA-AS-17
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/23 ft/2 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Amite River AT Bayou Manchac PointBYML1
At a cooperative observer's station/4.5 mi away/20 ft/1 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.3 mi from Prairieville, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
63.5 F with a dew point of 36.5 F, 37 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 6,100 ft up.
From the north (350 degrees) at 13 mph, gusting 28 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 35 mph.
The full report of Gonzale, 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.