Precip at Black Byu nr Oil City324613093554500
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.9 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Caddo Lake Swimming Beach 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. Caddo Lake Swimming Beach is 63° and overcast at 8 AM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 70° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° 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 89°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 70°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:42 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:57 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 23 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 AM in Caddo Lake Swimming Beach, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Shreveport (LA), 19 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 55, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.23 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Caddo Lake Swimming Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.8 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Precip at Black Byu nr Oil City324613093554500
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.9 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station DW5467DW5467
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.8 mi away/244 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/18.6 mi away/180 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Big Cypress Bayou 1 N Caddo LakeLCOL1
At a cooperative observer's station/1.8 mi away/207 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Gilliam 0.6 NELA-CD-16
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.8 mi away/193 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Big Cypress Bayou 1 N Caddo Lake (LCOL1), 1.8 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 06:00. 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.