Lutcher, Louisiana Weather
Lutcher, 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 Lutcher, St. James Parish.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Lutcher. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Lutcher is published on the Port of South Louisiana Executive Regional Airport (KAPS) page, 12 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. 5 airfields within reach of Lutcher 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 Lutcher: Louisiana Regional Airport (KREG) 28 km · Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (KMSY) 42 km · Houma Terrebonne Airport (KHUM) 53 km · Hammond Northshore Regional Airport (KHDC) 60 km
Conditions reported at KAPS describe the airfield itself. Weather 12 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Lutcher specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Lutcher.
About Lutcher, Louisiana
Lutcher unfolds along the western bank of the Mississippi River, a place where the air hangs thick and languid, carrying the scent of damp earth and the distant hum of industry. It lies 13.2 miles west of Laplace, LA (from Laplace, LA: bearing 262°T), and is situated 8.9 miles west of Reserve. Cypress knees, like gnarled knuckles, break the muddy surface of the bayous that fringe the community, their skeletal branches reaching towards a sky often softened by a pearlescent haze. The land itself is a flat, fertile expanse, broken by the occasional glint of sunlight on a slow-moving waterway, the very ground breathing the humid, verdant exhalation of south Louisiana. Live oaks, draped in veils of Spanish moss, stand sentinel over scattered homes and the orderly rows of sugarcane that stretch towards the horizon, their broad leaves rustling in the perpetual, gentle breeze. This stretch of the river has long been a conduit for commerce and cultivation, and Lutcher, named for a prominent railroad industrialist, carries echoes of that past. Its economy, once deeply intertwined with the sugar plantations that defined the region, now finds its pulse in the processing plants and refineries that dot the riverfront, their towering structures a modern counterpoint to the ancient, slow-moving river. The legacy of sugarcane remains, however, in the vast fields that still carpet the surrounding landscape, their emerald expanse turning to gold under the late summer sun. Lutcher remembers its roots, the quiet perseverance of generations etched into the very character of the place, a character defined by the enduring power of the river and the tenacious spirit of its people.
Live animated radar for Lutcher 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 | Lutcher, St. James Parish, Louisiana |
| Coordinates | 30.04048°N, 90.69898°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 70071 |
| Area Code | 504 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Lutcher, Louisiana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Lutcher, 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 Lutcher includes coordinates 30.040480°N, 90.698980°W, situated in St. James Parish. ZIP code 70071. Telephone area code: 504. 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.
