Harrisonburg, Louisiana Weather
Harrisonburg, 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 Harrisonburg, Catahoula Parish.
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Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Harrisonburg.
About Harrisonburg, Louisiana
Harrisonburg lies where the land begins to softly yield to the wide, slow embrace of the Ouachita River. It lies 48.6 miles north-east of Alexandria, LA (from Alexandria, LA: bearing 49°T), and is situated 4.3 miles north of Wallace Ridge. The air here, particularly in the humid afternoons of late summer, carries the scent of damp earth and the distant, sweet decay of fallen leaves, a perfume mingled with the fainter, sharper tang of pine needles. Fields of soybeans and cotton stretch out like rumpled green and white quilts, their edges softening into stands of cypress and tupelo that crowd the riverbanks, their gnarled roots disappearing into the dark, silty water. The sky overhead is vast, a pale blue canvas often smudged with the bruised purples and oranges of an approaching thunderstorm, and when the sun dips low, it casts long, attenuated shadows that seem to stretch the very soul of the landscape. The history of Harrisonburg is as deeply rooted as the ancient oaks that shade its quiet streets, a place that whispers of generations who have coaxed a living from these alluvial soils. Its economy has long been tied to the bounty of the land, with farming and timber shaping its character and its fortunes. The river, once a vital artery for commerce and transport, still flows, a constant presence, its gentle murmur a soundtrack to the unhurried rhythm of life. While grand pronouncements of progress may not echo here, there is a sturdy resilience in Harrisonburg, a quiet pride in its enduring connection to the water and the soil, a continuity that feels as natural and as persistent as the slow, sure rise and fall of the sun.
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| Location | Harrisonburg, Catahoula Parish, Louisiana |
| Coordinates | 31.772111°N, 91.821518°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 71340, 71343 |
| Area Code | 318 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Harrisonburg, Louisiana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Harrisonburg, 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 Harrisonburg includes coordinates 31.772111°N, 91.821518°W, situated in Catahoula Parish. ZIP code 71340, 71343. Telephone area code: 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.
