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temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Fort Macomb State Historic Site, Louisiana
State Historic Site in Orleans Parish, Louisiana75°
85°/70°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 75°·Light breeze 7 mph NE
Now. Fort Macomb State Historic Site is 75° and mostly clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 72°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light breeze from the northeast at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 83° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 72° by 5 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 Monday, near 86°, and the coolest Saturday, near 81°. Thunderstorms is likely Saturday (63%). Thunderstorms is possible Friday (36%), Sunday (48%) and Monday (36%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:39 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 3:55 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 45 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
29Air quality
85%Humidity
28%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
75feels75
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 6
8570
12mph
UV 7
Wed
Oct 7
8570
13mph
UV 8
Thu
Oct 8
8569
12%
14mph
UV 8
Fri
Oct 9
8368
36%
15mph
Sat
Oct 10
8168
63%
18mph
Sun
Oct 11
8468
48%
Mon
Oct 12
8670
36%
75°
85°70°
85°70°
85°69°
83°68°
81°68°
84°68°
86°70°
As of 1:00 AM in Fort Macomb State Historic Site, Louisiana.
Air quality
The air at Fort Macomb State Historic Site
Index 29, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, New Orleans (LA), 7 miles off.
29Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)29Good13.3 mi
- Ozone19Good-
- Nitrogen dioxide1Good1.7 ppb19.1 mi
- Sulfur dioxide1Good1.8 ppb13.3 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Wed Oct 7, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 21, good.
GoodModerate
- 21YesterdayOct 5
- 39TodayOct 6
- 43WedOct 7
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Wed 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Fort Macomb State Historic Site
None in the last 24 hours; 3.40 in over the last 3 days, to Tue 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 3.40in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Fort Macomb State Historic Site, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Wed 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Tue 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Historic Site
- Area
- 488,000 sq ft
- Height at its point
- 13 ft
- County
- Orleans Parish
- State
- Louisiana
- Latitude
- 30.0653° N
- Longitude
- 89.8066° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Fort Macomb State Historic Site, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.7 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station GW6348GW6348
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.7 mi away/3 ft/10 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/13.3 mi away/10 ft/3 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
MerauxMERL1
At a cooperative observer's station/11.9 mi away/12 ft/1 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Meraux 1.0 SSWLA-OR-26
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.6 mi away/6 ft/7 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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