AbbevilleIYA
At an airfield/9.4 mi away/16 ft/10 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Palmetto Island State Park, Louisiana
State Park in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana73°
89°/69°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 73°·Light breeze 5 mph NNE
Now. Palmetto Island State Park is 73° and partly cloudy at 1 AM. The dew point is 72°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light breeze from the north-northeast at 5 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 (40%) and Monday (36%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:48 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 4:05 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 44 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
30Air quality
100%Humidity
56%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
73feels73
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 6
8969
UV 8
Wed
Oct 7
8868
UV 9
Thu
Oct 8
8867
13mph
UV 8
Fri
Oct 9
8865
16%
12mph
Sat
Oct 10
8466
47%
13mph
Sun
Oct 11
8766
40%
Mon
Oct 12
8868
36%
73°
89°69°
88°68°
88°67°
88°65°
84°66°
87°66°
88°68°
As of 1:00 AM in Palmetto Island State Park, Louisiana.
Air quality
The air at Palmetto Island State Park
Index 30, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Lafayette (LA), 27 miles off.
30Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)30Good-
- Ozone4Good1 ppb20.1 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Wed Oct 7, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
GoodModerate
- 28YesterdayOct 5
- 39TodayOct 6
- 39WedOct 7
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Wed 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Palmetto Island State Park
None in the last 24 hours; 0.46 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
- 0.46in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Palmetto Island State Park, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Wed 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Wed 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 2.21 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 6 ft
- County
- Vermilion Parish
- State
- Louisiana
- Latitude
- 29.8536° N
- Longitude
- 92.1541° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Palmetto Island State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Precip at Vermilion River at Woodlawn300340092044500
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW8402FW8402
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.7 mi away/25 ft/19 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Lafayette 13 SE53960
At a climate reference station/23.6 mi away/35 ft/29 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Leland Bowman LockVLKL1
At a cooperative observer's station/6.1 mi away/7 ft/1 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Abbeville 1.9 SWLA-VM-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.0 mi away/11 ft/5 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Leland Bowman Lock (VLKL1), 6.1 miles from here, read 5 Oct, 23:59. measured daily
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Near Palmetto Island State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.