Pointe a la Hache, Louisiana Weather
Pointe a la Hache, 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 Pointe a la Hache, Plaquemines Parish.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Pointe a la Hache. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Pointe a la Hache is published on the New Orleans NAS JRB/Alvin Callender Field (KNBG) page, 36 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 Pointe a la Hache 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 Pointe a la Hache: South Lafourche Leonard Miller Jr Airport (KGAO) 48 km · Lakefront Airport (KNEW) 57 km
Conditions reported at KNBG describe the airfield itself. Weather 36 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Pointe a la Hache specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Pointe a la Hache.
About Pointe a la Hache, Louisiana
Pointe a la Hache exhales a humid breath, a place where the land softens into the embrace of water, where the Mississippi River, fat and slow, hums its ancient song. It lies 29.1 miles south-east of Marrero, LA (from Marrero, LA: bearing 140°T), and is situated 8.7 miles north-west of Port Sulphur. The sky here is a vast, luminous canvas, often painted with the bruised purples and tender golds of an approaching storm, or the bleached, relentless white of a Louisiana sun. Cypress trees, their knees like skeletal fingers, stand sentinel in the brackish marshes, their beards of Spanish moss trailing like forgotten memories. The air itself is thick with the scent of salt, decay, and the sweet perfume of unseen blossoms, a palpable presence that clings to everything. Life in Pointe a la Hache moves to a cadence dictated by the tides and the seasons, a quiet persistence against the relentless embrace of the subtropical climate. This sliver of Plaquemines Parish, Pointe a la Hache, carries the deep, resonant echoes of its past, a history etched not in stone but in the silt of the river and the hardy spirit of its people. For generations, the economy here has been inextricably bound to the bounty of the water, from fishing fleets that once cast their nets wide to the shrimp boats that still chug out at dawn, their diesel engines a familiar thrum against the morning stillness. The land, though often threatened by the encroaching Gulf, has yielded its crops, particularly sugarcane, its stalks a rustling testament to human toil and the fertile, if sometimes fickle, soil. There is a certain quiet pride in Pointe a la Hache, a resilience born of living so intimately with the powerful forces of nature, a quiet understanding that life here is a dance with the elements, a constant negotiation between man and the magnificent, untamed wild.
Live animated radar for Pointe a la Hache 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 | Pointe a la Hache, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana |
| Coordinates | 29.575122°N, 89.790187°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 70082 |
| Area Code | 504 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Pointe a la Hache, Louisiana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Pointe a la Hache, 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 Pointe a la Hache includes coordinates 29.575122°N, 89.790187°W, situated in Plaquemines Parish. ZIP code 70082. 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.
