Precip at Calcasieu River near Oakdale304920092410500
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.7 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 Turkey Creek until 9 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 13 degrees cooler: a high of 71° after 84° today.
Now. Turkey Creek is 67° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 81° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° 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 89°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 71°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:37 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:56 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 2:00 AM in Turkey Creek, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Lafayette (LA), 50 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 45, 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; 0.31 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Turkey Creek, LouisianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Turkey Creek, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.0 miles away.
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Precip at Calcasieu River near Oakdale304920092410500
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/18.7 mi away/108 ft/23 ft below here
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Citizen station FW0338FW0338
In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.5 mi away/39 ft/92 ft below here
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measured daily2 instruments
Ville Platte 11.1 NWLA-EV-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.0 mi away/109 ft/22 ft below here
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Beaver FiretowerOKLL1
At a cooperative observer's station/11.5 mi away/138 ft/7 ft above here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 18.7 mi from Turkey Creek, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
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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.