Chicot State Park, Louisiana

State Park in Evangeline Parish, Louisiana

70° 89°/66°

Clear· Feels like 70°·Light air 2 mph NNE

Now. Chicot State Park is 70° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the north-northeast at 2 mph.

Today and tonight. It warms to about 88° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 66° 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 8, very high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.

The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 89°, and the coolest Saturday, near 85°. Rain is possible Saturday (34%), Sunday (34%) and Monday (30%).

The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:48 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 4:04 AM after midnight. 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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 43 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.

0UV Low

27Air quality

80%Humidity

8%Cloud

Now

1:00 AM

70feels70

Today

Oct 6

8966

UV 8

Wed

Oct 7

8965

UV 8

Thu

Oct 8

8964

UV 8

Fri

Oct 9

8963

Sat

Oct 10

8564

34%

Sun

Oct 11

8764

34%

Mon

Oct 12

8965

30%

70°

89°66°

89°65°

89°64°

89°63°

85°64°

87°64°

89°65°

As of 1:00 AM in Chicot State Park, Louisiana.

Air quality

The air at Chicot State Park

Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Lafayette (LA), 41 miles off.

27Good

Fine particles (PM2.5)27Good-
Ozone6Good-

The days ahead

Good each day through Wed Oct 7, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 19, good.

GoodModerate

19YesterdayOct 5
39TodayOct 6
39WedOct 7

Smoke, the next 43 hours

No smoke near the ground through Wed 7 PM.

Precipitation

What has fallen at Chicot State Park

None in the last 24 hours; 0.27 in over the last 3 days, to Mon 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours: 0.00in
Last 3 days: 0.27in

3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%

Visibility

How far you can see at Chicot State Park, the next 43 hours

Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Wed 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Wed 6 AM.

Park

Designation: State Park
Area: 6.19 sq mi
Height at its point: 80 ft
County: Evangeline Parish
State: Louisiana
Latitude: 30.7904° N
Longitude: 92.2834° W

What is measuring near here

The 5 instruments nearest Chicot State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.8 miles away.

measured now3 instruments

OpelousasOPL

At an airfield/19.4 mi away/77 ft/3 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Citizen station FW0338FW0338

In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.3 mi away/39 ft/41 ft below here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

Precip at Calcasieu River near Oakdale304920092410500

At a river or reservoir gauge/23.9 mi away/-/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Ville Platte 9.7 NNWLA-EV-1