Ashland, Louisiana Weather
Ashland, Louisiana — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Ashland, Terrebonne Parish.
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Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Ashland.
About Ashland, Louisiana
Ashland lies in the low-slung, humid embrace of Terrebonne Parish, a place where the land itself seems to breathe with the gentle swell of bayous and the distant sigh of the Gulf. It lies 5.3 miles south-south-east of Houma, LA (from Houma, LA: bearing 150°T), and is situated 7.9 miles south-east of Bayou Cane. Cypress knees, gnarled and ancient, break the surface of brackish water that mirrors the bruised lavender of the twilight sky, a palette that deepens as the sun dips below the horizon, painting the air with a thick, golden haze. Live oaks, draped in Spanish moss like spectral beards, stand sentinel along the infrequent stretches of firm ground, their branches reaching out in a slow, deliberate gesture. The air here carries the persistent, earthy perfume of damp soil and decaying vegetation, a scent that clings to everything, a constant reminder of the life and death cycles that play out in this fertile, water-logged landscape. The history of Ashland is inextricably tied to the rich alluvial soils deposited by the mighty Mississippi, soils that have long dictated the rhythm of life and labor. For generations, sugarcane has been king, its emerald stalks a defining feature of the fields that stretch towards the horizon, a testament to the enduring strength of agricultural tradition in this corner of Louisiana. The local economy, while feeling the broader shifts of the modern world, still hums with the practicalities of cultivation and the quiet industry of its inhabitants, a resilience born of adapting to the capricious nature of the coastal environment. It’s a place where the past is not so much buried as it is woven into the very fabric of the present, where the legacy of those who worked this land under the relentless sun is carried in the slow, deliberate pace of Ashland's days.
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| Location | Ashland, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana |
| Coordinates | 29.52966°N, 90.675645°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 71366, 70363, 71002 |
| Area Code | 985, 318 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Ashland, Louisiana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Ashland, Louisiana, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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 Ashland includes coordinates 29.529660°N, 90.675645°W, situated in Terrebonne Parish. ZIP code 71366, 70363, 71002. Telephone area code: 985, 318. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.
