Crescent, Louisiana Weather
Crescent, 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 Crescent, Terrebonne Parish.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Crescent. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Crescent is published on the Houma Terrebonne Airport (KHUM) page, 14 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. 4 airfields within reach of Crescent 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 Crescent: Harry P Williams Memorial Airport (KPTN) 54 km · South Lafourche Leonard Miller Jr Airport (KGAO) 55 km · Port of South Louisiana Executive Regional Airport (KAPS) 56 km
Conditions reported at KHUM describe the airfield itself. Weather 14 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Crescent specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Crescent.
About Crescent, Louisiana
Crescent lies where the land sighs softly into water, a place where the air hangs thick with the scent of marsh and the low hum of unseen life. It lies 4.5 miles west-north-west of Houma, LA (from Houma, LA: bearing 286°T), and is situated 2.5 miles west-south-west of Bayou Cane. Cypress knees, gnarled and ancient, punctuate the murky edges of bayous, their dark reflections rippling with the passing of unseen creatures. Sunlight, when it breaks through the humid haze, falls in broad, golden shafts, illuminating the emerald sheen of duckweed and the iridescent flash of dragonfly wings. The land itself feels perpetually damp, a rich, yielding soil that cradles the roots of live oaks draped in ghostly Spanish moss, their branches reaching like skeletal fingers towards a sky that often weeps a gentle, persistent rain. This stretch of Terrebonne Parish, Crescent, has long drawn sustenance from the bounty of its watery embrace. Historically, it was a realm of shrimpers and oystermen, their lives dictated by the tides and the seasons, their weathered hands adept at hauling nets and shucking shells. The economy still echoes this maritime heritage, with fishing fleets dotting the waterways and seafood processing plants humming with activity, a testament to generations who understood the rhythm of the Gulf. Beyond the immediate shores, the vast, untamed wetlands of the Louisiana coast stretch outwards, a vital, fragile ecosystem that shapes the very character of Crescent, a place where the human spirit learns to coexist with the wild, beautiful, and sometimes formidable power of nature.
Live animated radar for Crescent 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 | Crescent, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana |
| Coordinates | 29.614102°N, 90.790926°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 70360, 70764 |
| Area Code | 985 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Crescent, Louisiana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Crescent, 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 Crescent includes coordinates 29.614102°N, 90.790926°W, situated in Terrebonne Parish. ZIP code 70360, 70764. 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.
