Amite River at Magnolia07377300
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.2 mi away/-1 ft/64 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Fire Weather Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Fire Weather Watch is in force for Watson until 8 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 15 degrees cooler: a high of 74° after 89° today.
Now. Watson is 66° and clear at 4 AM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 54° 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 88°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 74°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:32 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:51 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 26 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Watson, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 44, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Baton Rouge Area (LA), 13 miles off.
Highest 53, moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 64, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Fri 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Watson, LouisianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Watson, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Amite River at Magnolia07377300
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.2 mi away/-1 ft/64 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW1616EW1616
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.3 mi away/39 ft/24 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/11.9 mi away/69 ft/6 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Denham Springs 6.8 NLA-LV-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/108 ft/45 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Baton Rouge SherwoodBRSL1
At a cooperative observer's station/10.3 mi away/66 ft/3 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 11.9 mi from Watson, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 8 mi.
66.0 F with a dew point of 65.0 F, 97 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 200 ft up.
Calm.
The full report of Baton Rouge/Ryan, 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.