Precip at W Fork Calcasieu River at Moss Bluff301748093145600
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.4 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sam Houston Jones State Park, Louisiana
State Park in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana73°
90°/69°
Clear·
Feels like 73°·Light breeze 4 mph NNE
Now. Sam Houston Jones State Park is 73° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the north-northeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 89° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 70° 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 90°, and the coolest Saturday, near 86°. Rain is possible Sunday (31%) and Monday (31%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:52 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 4:09 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
33Air quality
66%Humidity
2%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
73feels73
now, clear
Today
Oct 6
9069
UV 8
Wed
Oct 7
9069
UV 8
Thu
Oct 8
9068
14mph
UV 8
Fri
Oct 9
8966
12%
Sat
Oct 10
8667
29%
14mph
Sun
Oct 11
8867
31%
Mon
Oct 12
8969
31%
73°
90°69°
90°69°
90°68°
89°66°
86°67°
88°67°
89°69°
As of 1:00 AM in Sam Houston Jones State Park, Louisiana.
Air quality
The air at Sam Houston Jones State Park
Index 33, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Lake Charles (LA), 20 miles off.
33Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)33Good3 mi
- Ozone22Good26 ppb12.7 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide0Good0 ppb3 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Wed Oct 7, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 29, good.
GoodModerate
- 29YesterdayOct 5
- 44TodayOct 6
- 40WedOct 7
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Wed 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sam Houston Jones State Park
None in the last 24 hours; 0.09 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
- 0.09in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Sam Houston Jones 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
- 1.61 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 19 ft
- County
- Calcasieu Parish
- State
- Louisiana
- Latitude
- 30.2962° N
- Longitude
- 93.2563° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Sam Houston Jones State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station DW3319DW3319
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.5 mi away/25 ft/6 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Lake Charles - Chennault IntlCWF
At an airfield/9.0 mi away/13 ft/6 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Moss BluffMBFL1
At a cooperative observer's station/2.4 mi away/39 ft/20 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Lake Charles 8.3 NLA-CC-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.8 mi away/25 ft/6 ft above 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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