Calcasieu PassNDBC-CAPL1
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Holly Beach, Louisiana
Beach in Cameron Parish, LouisianaGale Warning, in full · Every severe alert
* WHAT...For the Small Craft Advisory, north winds around 25 kt with gusts up to 30 kt and seas 4 to 6 ft expected. For the Gale Warning, north winds 25 to 35 kt with gusts up to 40 kt and seas 7 to 11 ft expected. * WHERE...Coastal waters from High Island TX to Lower Atchafalaya River out 60 NM. * WHEN...For the Small Craft Advisory, from 10 AM to 7 PM CDT Friday. For the Gale Warning, from 7 PM Friday to 1 PM CDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Strong winds will cause hazardous seas which could capsize or damage vessels and reduce visibility.
Mariners should alter plans to avoid these hazardous conditions. Remain in port, seek safe harbor, alter course, and/or secure the vessel for hazardous conditions.
78°
88°/74°
Clear·
Feels like 78°·Light breeze 4 mph SE
Alert. A Gale Warning is in force for Holly Beach until 1 PM Saturday. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Holly Beach is 78° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 73°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light breeze from the southeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 74° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 85°, and the coolest Saturday, near 73°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 29 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
28Air quality
96%Humidity
9%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
78feels78
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
8874
UV 8
Fri
Oct 16
8572
24mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
7358
21mph
UV 8
Sun
Oct 18
7555
12mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7959
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
8263
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8564
overcast
78°
88°74°
85°72°
73°58°
75°55°
79°59°
82°63°
85°64°
As of 11:00 PM in Holly Beach, Louisiana.
Air quality
The air at Holly Beach
Index 28, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Lake Charles (LA), 32 miles off.
28Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)24Good-
- Ozone28Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 42, good.
GoodModerate
- 42YesterdayOct 14
- 50TodayOct 15
- 43FriOct 16
- 35SatOct 17
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Holly Beach
None in the last 24 hours; 0.01 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.01in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Holly Beach, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing S 180°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Beach
- Parish
- Cameron Parish
- State
- Louisiana
- Latitude
- 29.7696° N
- Longitude
- 93.4642° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Holly Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
SulphurUXL
At an airfield/25.5 mi away/10 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW6036DW6036
In a volunteer observer's own ground/29.9 mi away/12 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Cameron 18.6 WLA-CM-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.6 mi away/3 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
SulphurSULL1
At a cooperative observer's station/32.8 mi away/56 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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Near Holly Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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