Bayou L'Ourse, Louisiana Weather
Bayou L'Ourse, Louisiana — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Bayou L'Ourse, Assumption Parish.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Bayou L'Ourse. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Bayou L'Ourse is published on the Harry P Williams Memorial Airport (KPTN) page, 27 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. 3 airfields within reach of Bayou L'Ourse 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 Bayou L'Ourse: Houma Terrebonne Airport (KHUM) 42 km · Louisiana Regional Airport (KREG) 52 km
Conditions reported at KPTN describe the airfield itself. Weather 27 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Bayou L'Ourse specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Bayou L'Ourse.
About Bayou L'Ourse, Louisiana
Bayou L'Ourse exhales a breath of humid air, thick with the scent of marsh grass and distant diesel. It lies 22.1 miles west-north-west of Houma, LA (from Houma, LA: bearing 292°T), and is situated 8.9 miles east of Morgan City. The land here unfolds in a low, flat expanse, a watery tapestry threaded with serpentine bayous and shimmering canals that mirror the bruised, expansive sky. Cypress knees, gnarled and ancient, rise from the murky depths, their roots anchoring them to a soil that feels perpetually damp. Sunlight, when it breaks through the often-heavy cloud cover, paints the reeds in strokes of molten gold, a fleeting beauty that hangs suspended in the stillness. The water, a deep, opaque brown, moves with a slow, deliberate pulse, carrying whispers of the Gulf not far to the south. The history of Bayou L'Ourse is inextricably linked to the industrious spirit that has always found purchase in this fertile, yet challenging, terrain. Generations have coaxed sustenance from these waters and the surrounding earth, with sugarcane fields once dominating the landscape, their sweet scent mingling with the briny air. Today, the hum of the oil and gas industry is a more prominent sound, the pipelines a modern-day network of arteries across the wetlands. Yet, the character of Bayou L'Ourse remains one of quiet resilience, a place where life moves to a rhythm dictated by the tides and the enduring strength of its people, a steadfast presence against the ebb and flow of time.
Live animated radar for Bayou L'Ourse 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 | Bayou L'Ourse, Assumption Parish, Louisiana |
| Coordinates | 29.7174°N, 91.0607°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 70380 |
| Area Code | 985 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Bayou L'Ourse, Louisiana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Bayou L'Ourse, Louisiana, 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 Bayou L'Ourse includes coordinates 29.717400°N, 91.060700°W, situated in Assumption Parish. ZIP code 70380. Telephone area code: 985. 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.
