New Orleans Station, 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 New Orleans Station, Plaquemines Parish.
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New Orleans Station lies at the edge of a vast, flat expanse where the muddy arteries of the Mississippi River bleed into the brackish embrace of the Gulf. It lies 6.7 miles south-east of Marrero, LA (from Marrero, LA: bearing 135°T), and is situated 9.1 miles south-south-east of New Orleans. The air here is thick, heavy with the scent of salt and decay, a humid blanket that clings to the skin and softens the edges of the world. Cypress trees, gnarled and ancient, rise from the shallow, dark waters, their knees like spectral fingers breaking the surface, draped in Spanish moss that sways with a mournful grace in the infrequent breeze. The land itself seems to sag, perpetually sodden, a place where the boundary between earth and water is a whispered suggestion rather than a firm line, and the sky, when it clears, is a pale, washed-out blue, often bruised by the bruised purples and oranges of an approaching storm. This is a place defined by its relationship with the water, a history etched not in stone but in the silt and sediment deposited by millennia of floods and tides. The economy of New Orleans Station has long been tied to the bounty of the Gulf and the river – shrimping fleets, their weathered hulls bobbing in the sluggish canals, and the quiet, persistent work of oyster farms that dot the shallow bays. It is a landscape that remembers the fury of hurricanes, the scars of which are evident in the resilient, yet often weathered, structures that huddle against the elements. The very character of New Orleans Station is shaped by this constant negotiation with nature, a stoic endurance that permeates the rhythm of everyday life, where the turning of the tides and the changing of the seasons are the most reliable clocks.
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| Location | New Orleans Station, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana |
| Coordinates | 29.8314°N, 90.0211°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 70037 |
| Area Code | 504 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for New Orleans Station, 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 New Orleans Station includes coordinates 29.831400°N, 90.021100°W, situated in Plaquemines Parish. ZIP code 70037. 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. 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.