Nattchitoches Regional AirportIER
At an airfield/3.7 mi away/121 ft/11 ft above here
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Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Vienna Bend 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. Vienna Bend is 70° and clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 67°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 75° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 49° 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. Air quality is moderate (index 58): 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 71°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:39 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 24 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Vienna Bend, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 58, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Shreveport (LA), 69 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 55, moderate.
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; 0.05 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Vienna Bend, LouisianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 4 instruments nearest Vienna Bend, 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 now2 instruments
Nattchitoches Regional AirportIER
At an airfield/3.7 mi away/121 ft/11 ft above here
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Precip at Old River at Hwy 1 nr Natchitoches314342093063300
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
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measured daily2 instruments
Natchitoches 0.9 NELA-NT-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.7 mi away/103 ft/7 ft below here
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Natchitoches #2ICHL1
At a cooperative observer's station/6.4 mi away/157 ft/47 ft above here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.7 mi from Vienna Bend, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Natchitoches #2 (ICHL1), 6.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.