Paulina, Louisiana Weather
Paulina, 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 Paulina, St. James Parish.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Paulina. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Paulina is published on the Port of South Louisiana Executive Regional Airport (KAPS) page, 14 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. 4 airfields within reach of Paulina 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 Paulina: Louisiana Regional Airport (KREG) 27 km · Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (KMSY) 43 km · Houma Terrebonne Airport (KHUM) 51 km
Conditions reported at KAPS describe the airfield itself. Weather 14 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Paulina specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Paulina.
About Paulina, Louisiana
Paulina exists as a quiet breath along the Mississippi River's fertile embrace. It lies 14.2 miles west of Laplace, LA (from Laplace, LA: bearing 259°T), and is situated 9.8 miles west of Reserve. The air here, thick with the scent of damp earth and distant sugarcane, hangs heavy in the humid Louisiana afternoons, broken only by the insistent hum of cicadas. Wide, flat fields stretch towards the horizon, a patchwork of emerald and gold, punctuated by the occasional stand of live oaks draped in Spanish moss, their branches reaching out like ancient, gnarled fingers. The land itself feels yielding, soft underfoot, a testament to the alluvial deposits that have shaped this place for millennia, cradling a landscape that breathes with a slow, deliberate pulse. The history of Paulina is intrinsically tied to the river that defines its existence, a lifeline for commerce and community since its earliest days. This stretch of land once echoed with the labor of sugar plantations, a legacy that continues to inform the local economy through the cultivation of sugarcane, its sweet, sticky harvest still a defining feature of the annual cycle. Beyond agriculture, a subtle vein of industry runs through Paulina, the quiet thrum of machinery a low counterpoint to the rustling cane fields. The very character of Paulina is etched by the confluence of these elements, a place where the past whispers from the weathered barns and the present hums with the steady work of its people, a resilience born from the rich, dark soil and the ever-present, powerful flow of the Mississippi.
Live animated radar for Paulina 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 | Paulina, St. James Parish, Louisiana |
| Coordinates | 30.026313°N, 90.713147°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 70763 |
| Area Code | 985 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Paulina, Louisiana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Paulina, 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 Paulina includes coordinates 30.026313°N, 90.713147°W, situated in St. James Parish. ZIP code 70763. 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.
