Midway, Louisiana Weather
Midway, 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 Midway, St. Mary Parish.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Midway. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Midway is published on the Harry P Williams Memorial Airport (KPTN) page, 16 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 Midway 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 Midway: Le Maire Memorial Airport (K2R1) 32 km · Acadiana Regional Airport (KARA) 57 km
Conditions reported at KPTN describe the airfield itself. Weather 16 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Midway specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Midway.
About Midway, Louisiana
Midway rests in the verdant embrace of Louisiana's bayou country, a landscape painted in broad strokes of emerald and slate. It lies 31.0 miles south-east of New Iberia, LA (from New Iberia, LA: bearing 141°T), and is situated 9.7 miles south of Franklin. Cypress trees, their knees like ancient knuckles breaking the water's surface, stand sentinel along the slow-moving waterways, their branches draped with Spanish moss that sways like spectral beards in the humid air. The land itself, a rich, dark loam, yields to the persistent moisture, creating a terrain that is both fertile and yielding, a place where the very earth seems to breathe. Sunlight, when it pierces the dense canopy, falls in fragmented shafts, illuminating the shimmering wings of dragonflies and the slick, oily sheen on the bayou's surface. The character of Midway is one of quiet resilience, a place where life moves with the languid grace of the surrounding waters. The history of Midway is as deeply entwined with the water as the cypress roots themselves, its origins tied to the early agricultural endeavors that shaped this part of St. Mary Parish. For generations, the economy here has been sustained by the bounty of the land and the waterways, with sugarcane fields stretching towards the horizon and fishing boats plying the depths. This connection to the earth and water has fostered a distinctive cultural character, one marked by a deep understanding of the natural world and a tradition of communal living. While modern industries may have touched its edges, the heart of Midway remains rooted in its agrarian past, a place where the scent of damp earth and ripening sugarcane still hangs heavy in the air, a persistent echo of its enduring heritage.
Live animated radar for Midway 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 | Midway, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana |
| Coordinates | 29.655211°N, 91.4915°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 70538, 71006, 71071, 71342 |
| Area Code | 318 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Midway, Louisiana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Midway, 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 Midway includes coordinates 29.655211°N, 91.491500°W, situated in St. Mary Parish. ZIP code 70538, 71006, 71071, 71342. 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. 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.
