PilottownNDBC-PILL1
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Venice until 3 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees cooler: a high of 73° after 81° today.
Now. Venice is 71° and mostly cloudy at 11 PM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Fresh breeze from the north at 23 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 62° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 73°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 30 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 35% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south. 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 28 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Venice, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 36, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, New Orleans (LA), 63 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 52, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Venice, LouisianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 2 instruments nearest Venice, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 9.8 miles away.
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PilottownNDBC-PILL1
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/30.4 mi away/3 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 30.4 mi from Venice, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 11:30 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud reported; visibility 10 mi or more.
75.2 F with a dew point of 62.6 F, 65 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,900 ft up.
At 5 mph, gusting 14 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 17 mph.
The full report of Main Pass 69P, 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.