At an airfield/18.7 mi away/24 ft/10 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sorrel, Louisiana
Community in St. Mary Parish, LouisianaFire Weather Watch, in full · Every severe alert
...FIRE WEATHER WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FRIDAY... .Breezy and dry conditions due to a frontal passage will combine with very dry fuels and produce red flag conditions across portions of central and southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas through Friday afternoon. A Fire Weather Watch is in place for all of southeast Texas and southwest and central Louisiana on Saturday. The National Weather Service in Lake Charles has issued a Fire Weather Watch for winds and low relative humidity, which is in effect from Saturday morning through Saturday evening. * AFFECTED AREA...Fire Weather Zone 055 Lower St. Martin, Fire Weather Zone 073 West Cameron, Fire Weather Zone 074 East Cameron, Fire Weather Zone 152 Upper Vermilion, Fire Weather Zone 153 Upper Iberia, Fire Weather Zone 154 Upper St. Mary, Fire Weather Zone 241 Southern Calcasieu, Fire Weather Zone 242 Southern Jefferson Davis, Fire Weather Zone 243 Southern Acadia, Fire Weather Zone 252 Lower Vermilion, Fire Weather Zone 253 Lower Iberia, Fire Weather Zone 254 Lower St. Mary, Fire Weather Zone 515 Upper Jefferson, Fire Weather Zone 516 Northern Orange, Fire Weather Zone 615 Lower Jefferson and Fire Weather Zone 616 Southern Orange. * TIMING...From Saturday morning through Saturday evening. * WINDS...North 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 35 percent. * TEMPERATURES...Up to 72. * LIGHTNING... * IMPACTS...Any fire that develops will catch and spread quickly. Outdoor burning is not recommended.
A Fire Weather Watch means that critical fire weather conditions are forecast to occur. Listen for later forecasts and possible Red Flag Warnings.
74°
89°/66°
Clear·
Feels like 74°·Light breeze 4 mph SE
Alert. A Fire Weather Watch is in force for Sorrel until 9 PM Saturday. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Sorrel is 74° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 69°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the southeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 68° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 88°, and the coolest Saturday, near 71°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 29 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
35Air quality
90%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
74feels74
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
8966
UV 8
Fri
Oct 16
8865
13%
20mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
7156
18mph
UV 8
Sun
Oct 18
7451
UV 8
Mon
Oct 19
7853
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
8356
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8556
overcast
74°
89°66°
88°65°
71°56°
74°51°
78°53°
83°56°
85°56°
As of 10:00 PM in Sorrel, Louisiana.
Air quality
The air at Sorrel
Index 35, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Lafayette (LA), 34 miles off.
35Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)22Good-
- Ozone35Good31 ppb17.1 mi
The days ahead
Highest 54, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 67, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 67YesterdayOct 14
- 54TodayOct 15
- 46FriOct 16
- 35SatOct 17
Smoke, the next 46 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sorrel
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Sorrel, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Sorrel, LouisianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Sorrel, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank2of 933
Lafayette 13 SE53960
At a climate reference station/20.5 mi away/35 ft/21 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Cade Farm - University Of Louisiana At LCADL1
On a college campus/20.7 mi away/36 ft/22 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW8402FW8402
In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.0 mi away/25 ft/11 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Jeanerette 0.2 ELA-IB-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.7 mi away/16 ft/2 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/7.3 mi away/30 ft/16 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at New Iberia - Acadiana, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 18.7 mi from Sorrel, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 9:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
71.0 F with a dew point of 68.0 F, 90 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 700 ft up.
The wind
From the southeast (140 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Louisiana
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Sorrel
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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- Franklincity, 9 mi
- Lydiacommunity, 10 mi
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- New Iberiacity, 14 mi
- Centervillecommunity, 15 mi
- Atchafalaya Riverfeature, 18 mi
- St. Martinvillecity, 21 mi
- Cadecommunity, 23 mi