Precip at Black Lake Bayou north of Castor321750093111800
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Ringgold until 1 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Ringgold is 66° and partly cloudy at 7 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 71° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 49° 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.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 88°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 69°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:39 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:55 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 23 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 7:00 AM in Ringgold, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 35, good, led by fine particles. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Shreveport (LA), 31 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 55, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.13 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Fri 7 AM.
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The 5 instruments nearest Ringgold, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Precip at Black Lake Bayou north of Castor321750093111800
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW8899FW8899
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.1 mi away/305 ft/33 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
MindenMNE
At an airfield/22.1 mi away/278 ft/6 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Ringgold 3.5 ELA-BV-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.5 mi away/201 ft/71 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
JamestownJMSL1
At a cooperative observer's station/5.1 mi away/226 ft/46 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 22.1 mi from Ringgold, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 6:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 1,500 ft, overcast at 2,400 ft; the ceiling is 1,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
68.0 F with a dew point of 62.6 F, 83 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,300 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,500 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Minden, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Jamestown (JMSL1), 5.1 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.