Golden Meadow, Louisiana Weather
Golden Meadow, 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 Golden Meadow, Lafourche Parish.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Golden Meadow. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Golden Meadow is published on the South Lafourche Leonard Miller Jr Airport (KGAO) page, 7 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 Golden Meadow 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 Golden Meadow: Houma Terrebonne Airport (KHUM) 44 km · New Orleans NAS JRB/Alvin Callender Field (KNBG) 54 km
Conditions reported at KGAO describe the airfield itself. Weather 7 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Golden Meadow specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Golden Meadow.
About Golden Meadow, Louisiana
Golden Meadow breathes the heavy, humid air of the Louisiana coast, a place where the earth itself seems to exhale the scent of salt and fertile decay. It lies 31.4 miles east-south-east of Houma, LA (from Houma, LA: bearing 118°T), and is situated 5.0 miles south-south-east of Galliano. The landscape is a tapestry of water and land, a delicate balance of bayous, canals, and marsh grasses that stretch towards a sky that often hangs low and bruised with the promise of rain. Here, sunlight, when it breaks through, casts a molten glow on the sluggish currents, illuminating the emerald sheen of vegetation that clings tenaciously to the soft, dark soil. The character of Golden Meadow is etched in the weathered facades of its buildings, a testament to resilience against the elements and a quiet acceptance of the ebb and flow of the tides. This stretch of Lafourche Parish has long been a cradle of life and livelihood, its economy intrinsically tied to the bounty of its watery domain. For generations, fishing and shrimping have been the lifeblood of Golden Meadow, the rhythmic pulse of boats heading out before dawn and returning laden with the day's catch. The canals that crisscross the land are not just waterways but arteries of commerce, carrying the produce of the sea to market and bringing the necessities of life to the scattered homes. The history of this place is a story of adaptation, of people who learned to live with and from the water, their traditions shaped by the challenges and generosity of the Gulf Coast. The faint, distant hum of industry, a whisper of oil and gas exploration that has also found its place here, adds another layer to the complex economic narrative of Golden Meadow.
Live animated radar for Golden Meadow 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 | Golden Meadow, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana |
| Coordinates | 29.379111°N, 90.260079°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 70357 |
| Area Code | 985 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Golden Meadow, Louisiana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Golden Meadow, 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 Golden Meadow includes coordinates 29.379111°N, 90.260079°W, situated in Lafourche Parish. ZIP code 70357. 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.
