Storm Station

Lafayette Regional Airport, Louisiana

Medium airport in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
78° 92°/73°
Clear· Feels like 78°·Light air 3 mph ESE

Now. Lafayette Regional Airport is 78° and clear at 2 PM. The dew point is 73°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light air from the east-southeast at 3 mph, gusting to 13 mph.

The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 91°, and the coolest Monday, near 81°. Thunderstorms is likely tomorrow (50%), Friday (88%), Saturday (92%) and Sunday (80%). Thunderstorms is possible Monday (44%).

The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:55 PM. The Moon is a waning gibbous, 80% lit, and rises at 9:23 PM. The next new Moon is Saturday, Oct 10. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The day is 11 hours 55 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.

-UV
-Air quality
85%Humidity
9%Cloud
Now
9:00 AM
78feels78
now, clear
Today
Sep 30
9273
clear day
Thu
Oct 1
9174
50%
15mph
thunderstorm
Fri
Oct 2
9172
88%
thunderstorm
Sat
Oct 3
8671
92%
thunderstorm
Sun
Oct 4
8269
80%
thunderstorm
Mon
Oct 5
8166
44%
15mph
thunderstorm
Tue
Oct 6
8166
25%
15mph
thunderstorm
78°
92°73°
91°74°
91°72°
86°71°
82°69°
81°66°
81°66°

As of 9:00 AM in Lafayette Regional Airport, Louisiana.

Airfield

Code
LFT
ICAO
KLFT
IATA
LFT
Field elevation
42 ft
Serves
Lafayette
Kind
Medium airport
Scheduled service
Yes
Its own instrument
LFT
Wind now
Calm, read 30 Sep, 08:53

Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceHeading, trueWind along it nowCrosswind now
04L / 22R4,098 ft75 ftAsphalt39° / 219°CalmCalm
04R / 22L8,000 ft150 ftAsphalt39° / 219°CalmCalm
11 / 29 unlit5,403 ft150 ftAsphalt110° / 290°CalmCalm
04L22R04R22L11292,500 ftN
Runways from their surveyed ends, north up, lengths and positions to scale.

What is measuring near here

The 5 instruments nearest Lafayette Regional Airport, 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

LafayetteLFT

At an airfield/0.5 mi away/48 ft/6 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Lafayette 13 SE53960

At a climate reference station/10.6 mi away/35 ft/7 ft below here

temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip

measured daily2 instruments

Lafayette 2.9 ENELA-LY-10

In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/41 ft/1 ft below here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

CarencroCRCL1

At a cooperative observer's station/8.6 mi away/49 ft/7 ft above here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

-

Snow on the ground

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