Shongaloo, Louisiana Weather
Shongaloo, 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 Shongaloo, Webster Parish.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Shongaloo. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Shongaloo is published on the Springhill Airport (KSPH) page, 11 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 Shongaloo 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 Shongaloo: Homer Municipal Airport (K5F4) 32 km · Magnolia Municipal Airport / Ralph C Weiser Field (KAGO) 33 km · Minden Airport (KMNE) 33 km · South Arkansas Regional Airport at Goodwin Field (KELD) 55 km · Arcadia Bienville Parish Airport (K5F0) 56 km
Conditions reported at KSPH describe the airfield itself. Weather 11 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Shongaloo specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Shongaloo.
About Shongaloo, Louisiana
Shongaloo rests in a fold of the gentle Louisiana terrain, where the land rises and falls with a quiet grace. It lies 38.7 miles north-east of Bossier City, LA (from Bossier City, LA: bearing 40°T), and is situated 9.3 miles west of Haynesville. The air here, especially in the late afternoon, carries the mingled scents of sun-baked earth and the sweet, damp perfume of pine needles. Fields of soybeans and cotton stretch out like rumpled green and white blankets under a sky that often seems impossibly vast, punctuated by the slow drift of clouds. Oak trees, their branches draped with Spanish moss, stand sentinel along the edges of these fields, their dense canopies offering deep, cool shadows where the heat of the day seems to dissolve. The roads, often unpaved, wind through this landscape like threads of faded ribbon, leading deeper into a countryside that feels both ancient and perpetually alive. The history of Shongaloo is tied to the rich, dark soil that has sustained generations of farmers. For many years, agriculture was the lifeblood of this place, with cotton and timber being the primary crops that shaped its economy and its character. While the landscape still bears the marks of this agricultural past, the economic currents have shifted, with a greater reliance now on varied local businesses and the resilience of its people. There are no grand monuments or bustling tourist attractions here; Shongaloo’s distinction lies in its quiet persistence, in the way life unfolds at a measured pace, marked by the changing seasons and the enduring strength of community ties. It is a place where the past whispers in the rustle of leaves and the present hums with the steady, understated rhythm of everyday living.
Live animated radar for Shongaloo 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 | Shongaloo, Webster Parish, Louisiana |
| Coordinates | 32.941528°N, 93.29878°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 71072 |
| Area Code | 318 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Shongaloo, Louisiana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Shongaloo, 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 Shongaloo includes coordinates 32.941528°N, 93.298780°W, situated in Webster Parish. ZIP code 71072. 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.
