Mississippi River 4 W New OrleansNORL1
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.3 mi away/20 ft/19 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Westwego until 3 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 14 degrees cooler: a high of 72° after 86° today.
Now. Westwego is 73° and mostly clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 70°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light air from the north-northeast at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 59° 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 82°, and the coolest Sunday, near 71°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:49 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 27 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Westwego, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 45, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, New Orleans (LA), 17 miles off.
Highest 53, moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 52, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Westwego, LouisianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Westwego, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Mississippi River 4 W New OrleansNORL1
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.3 mi away/20 ft/19 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station CW4185CW4185
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.9 mi away/7 ft/6 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/8.3 mi away/-20 ft/21 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Westwego 0.7 SLA-JF-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/0 ft/1 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MerauxMERL1
At a cooperative observer's station/12.8 mi away/12 ft/11 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.3 mi from Westwego, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:51 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 200 ft; visibility 1.25 mi.
68.0 F with a dew point of 68.0 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 200 ft.
Calm.
The full report of New Orleans NAS, 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.