Lafayette 13 SE53960
At a climate reference station/4.5 mi away/35 ft/25 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Now. Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site is 73° and mostly clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 73°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light breeze from the north-northeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 88° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 69° 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 88°, and the coolest Saturday, near 84°. Thunderstorms is possible Saturday (47%), Sunday (39%) and Monday (36%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:47 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 4:03 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.
As of 1:00 AM in Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 30, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Lafayette (LA), 15 miles off.
Good each day through Wed Oct 7, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Wed 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 2.40 in over the last 3 days, to Tue 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Wed 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Wed 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Lafayette 13 SE53960
At a climate reference station/4.5 mi away/35 ft/25 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Cade Farm - University Of Louisiana At LCADL1
On a college campus/4.5 mi away/36 ft/26 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/8.5 mi away/24 ft/14 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW6841GW6841
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.6 mi away/12 ft/2 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
St. Martinville 0.2 SLA-SM-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/22 ft/12 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/14.3 mi away/30 ft/20 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.