La Crosse, Indiana Weather
La Crosse, Indiana — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for La Crosse, LaPorte County.
Full aviation weather for La Crosse is published on the Starke County Airport (KOXI) page, 19 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 5 airfields within reach of La Crosse have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near La Crosse: La Porte Municipal Airport (KPPO) 31 km · Arens Field (KRWN) 34 km · Michigan City Municipal Airport (KMGC) 43 km · Plymouth Municipal Airport (KC65) 50 km
Conditions reported at KOXI describe the airfield itself. Weather 19 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at La Crosse specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for La Crosse.
About La Crosse, Indiana
La Crosse, Indiana, exhales a quiet stillness against the broad, open sweep of the Midwestern sky. It lies 13.9 miles south-east of Valparaiso, IN (from Valparaiso, IN: bearing 141°T), and is situated 7.0 miles east of Kouts. Rolling farmland, a patchwork of cultivated greens and rich, turned earth, stretches to a horizon that seems to breathe with the changing seasons, the air carrying the faint, sweet scent of ripening corn in the summer and the crisp, clean bite of frost in the autumn. The land itself is a gentle undulation, not dramatic, but a subtle rise and fall that guides the eye across the terrain, hinting at the ancient glacial forces that shaped this place. Here, the light can be a thing of profound beauty, especially in the late afternoon when it slants low, turning the dust motes dancing in barn doorways into tiny, ephemeral sparks and casting long, languid shadows from the occasional sentinel oak. This corner of La Porte County carries the deep, steady hum of agricultural enterprise, a legacy stretching back to its founding. The fertile soil, a gift from the receding ice sheets, has long been the bedrock of its local economy, supporting generations of families who have worked this land with a quiet determination. While the days of grand industrial booms may have passed, the spirit of industriousness persists, evident in the well-maintained farmsteads and the ongoing cultivation of crops that feed the nation. The nearby presence of water, though not a dominant feature of the immediate landscape, plays a subtle role, its humidity influencing the quality of the air and the richness of the soil, a constant, unseen companion to the rhythm of life in La Crosse.
Live animated radar for La Crosse and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | La Crosse, LaPorte County, Indiana |
| Coordinates | 41.31754°N, 86.891411°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 46348 |
| Area Code | 260 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This La Crosse, Indiana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for La Crosse, Indiana, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for La Crosse includes coordinates 41.317540°N, 86.891411°W, situated in LaPorte County. ZIP code 46348. Telephone area code: 260. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
