MindenMNE
At an airfield/26.4 mi away/278 ft/45 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Springhill 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. Springhill is 68° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 69° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° 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 60): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 89°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 69°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:40 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:54 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 22 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Springhill, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 60, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Shreveport (LA), 36 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 37, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.37 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Springhill, LouisianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Springhill, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
MindenMNE
At an airfield/26.4 mi away/278 ft/45 ft above here
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Caney La (RAWS)CANL1
A remote fire weather station/26.7 mi away/236 ft/3 ft above here
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Citizen station FW8899FW8899
In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.5 mi away/305 ft/72 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Springhill 0.4 SSELA-WR-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/226 ft/7 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Plain DealingPLNL1
At a cooperative observer's station/14.9 mi away/308 ft/75 ft above here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 26.4 mi from Springhill, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
66.2 F with a dew point of 62.6 F, 88 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 800 ft up.
Calm.
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
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.