Rio, Louisiana Weather
Rio, 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 Rio, Washington Parish.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Rio. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Rio is published on the George R Carr Memorial Air Field (KBXA) 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. 6 airfields within reach of Rio 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 Rio: Franklinton Airport (K2R7) 26 km · St. Tammany Regional Airport (KL31) 29 km · Picayune Municipal Airport (KMJD) 32 km · Slidell Airport (KASD) 39 km · I H Bass Jr Memorial Airport (K4R1) 53 km
Conditions reported at KBXA describe the airfield itself. Weather 14 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Rio specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Rio.
About Rio, Louisiana
Rio, Louisiana, exhales a humid breath across its low-lying terrain, where stands of pine and oak, draped with Spanish moss, wrestle for dominance with encroaching palmettos. It lies 25.4 miles north-north-east of Mandeville, LA (from Mandeville, LA: bearing 24°T), and is situated 7.2 miles south-south-west of Bogalusa. The air, thick with the scent of damp earth and blooming honeysuckle, hums with the unseen industry of insects. Drainage ditches, choked with vibrant green growth, snake through the landscape, hinting at the watery world that shapes this part of Washington Parish. The land itself seems to absorb the heavy, golden light of late afternoon, turning the shadows into deep, velvety pools. This particular corner of the parish, once part of a vast pine forest that fueled the early timber industry, carries the echoes of that past in its very bones. While lumber mills have long since faded into memory, the enduring spirit of self-reliance persists, a quiet defiance against the slow march of time. The local economy, though modest, finds its footing in agriculture, with small farms coaxing crops from the rich, alluvial soil, and a scattering of businesses catering to the needs of its residents. There's a palpable sense of continuity here, a feeling that the generations who have called Rio home have learned to live in harmony with the land's generous, yet demanding, nature.
Live animated radar for Rio 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 | Rio, Washington Parish, Louisiana |
| Coordinates | 30.692966°N, 89.890074°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 70427 |
| Area Code | 985 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Rio, Louisiana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Rio, 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 Rio includes coordinates 30.692966°N, 89.890074°W, situated in Washington Parish. ZIP code 70427. 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.
