Varnado, Louisiana Weather
Varnado, 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 Varnado, Washington Parish.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Varnado. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Varnado is published on the George R Carr Memorial Air Field (KBXA) page, 10 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 Varnado 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 Varnado: Franklinton Airport (K2R7) 28 km · I H Bass Jr Memorial Airport (K4R1) 36 km · Paul Pittman Memorial Airport (KT36) 43 km · Columbia-Marion County Airport (K0R0) 45 km · Picayune Municipal Airport (KMJD) 48 km
Conditions reported at KBXA describe the airfield itself. Weather 10 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Varnado specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Varnado.
About Varnado, Louisiana
Varnado lies where the piney woods of southeastern Louisiana begin to soften, a landscape punctuated by the low, wide shoulders of the earth and the patient reach of cypress knees along the slow-moving creeks. It lies 39.6 miles north-north-east of Mandeville, LA (from Mandeville, LA: bearing 21°T), and is situated 7.2 miles north of Bogalusa. Here, the air hangs thick and sweet with the scent of damp soil and pine needles, especially after a summer rain, and the sunlight, when it breaks through the dense canopy, falls in shifting, golden pools on the forest floor. The roads, often little more than well-worn tracks, wind through stands of towering loblolly and slash pine, their trunks a uniform grey-brown, creating a sense of quiet enclosure, a world apart from the wider, more hurried currents of life. The history of Varnado is deeply intertwined with the timber industry that once dominated this corner of Washington Parish, a time when the forests were felled to build homes and fuel distant industries. Even now, the economy whispers of its past, with a lingering presence of sawmills and the slow, steady work of managing the enduring woodlands. The land itself, a fertile loam that yields to the persistent efforts of those who cultivate it, still supports a scattering of farms, their fields a patchwork of greens and golds against the deep emerald of the surrounding woods. The local character is one of quiet resilience, a community that has learned to draw its strength from the very earth beneath its feet, a place where time seems to move with the unhurried grace of the nearby waterways, reflecting the sky in their dark, clear depths.
Live animated radar for Varnado 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 | Varnado, Washington Parish, Louisiana |
| Coordinates | 30.893796°N, 89.82952°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 70426, 70467 |
| Area Code | 985 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Varnado, Louisiana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Varnado, 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 Varnado includes coordinates 30.893796°N, 89.829520°W, situated in Washington Parish. ZIP code 70426, 70467. 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.
