Precip south of I10 at Grosse Tete302453091255600
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Fire Weather Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Fire Weather Watch is in force for Rosedale until 8 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 16 degrees cooler: a high of 72° after 88° today.
Now. Rosedale is 70° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 53° 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 72°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:34 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:53 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Rosedale, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 33, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Baton Rouge Area (LA), 19 miles off.
Highest 53, moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 90, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Rosedale, LouisianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Rosedale, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Precip south of I10 at Grosse Tete302453091255600
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW7632GW7632
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.1 mi away/17 ft/3 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
New RoadsHZR
At an airfield/19.2 mi away/36 ft/16 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Lafayette 13 SE53960
At a climate reference station/34.7 mi away/35 ft/15 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Livonia 3.5 ESELA-PC-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.4 mi away/7 ft/13 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Port AllenPTAL1
At a cooperative observer's station/14.0 mi away/26 ft/6 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 19.2 mi from Rosedale, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:35 PM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
68.4 F with a dew point of 67.0 F, 95 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 300 ft up.
At 36 ft above sea level, 0 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 29.88 inHg and the temperature at 58.9 F; the station's altimeter setting of 30.06 inHg means its barometer reads 30.02 inHg; it reports 68.4 F, 9.5 F warmer than standard.
The full report of New Roads, in 5 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.