Welcome, Louisiana Weather
Welcome, Louisiana — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Welcome, St. James Parish.
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About Welcome, Louisiana
Welcome lies low, a sprawling whisper of land where the Mississippi River's breath is a constant, humid presence. It lies 17.9 miles south-south-east of Prairieville, LA (from Prairieville, LA: bearing 160°T), and is situated 8.0 miles east-south-east of Donaldsonville. Cypress knees, gnarled and ancient, punctuate the silty banks, their dark wood slick with moss that hangs like forgotten lace from the branches of live oaks. The air here is thick, heavy with the scent of damp earth, sweet magnolias, and the distant, metallic tang of sugarcane processing. Sunlight, when it breaks through the pervasive haze, falls in broad, buttery swathes across fields of emerald green, painting the drainage ditches with a fleeting, liquid gold. The roads themselves seem to sag, softened by the relentless moisture, winding between modest homes and agricultural outbuildings that have weathered countless seasons of sun and storm. This is a place where the legacy of the sugar plantations still clings to the air, a subtle undertone beneath the hum of modern machinery. For generations, the fertile soil of St. James Parish has yielded its bounty, and Welcome’s economy has been intrinsically tied to the cultivation and processing of sugarcane, a rhythm dictated by the planting and harvesting seasons. The land itself, a rich alluvial deposit, has been both a generous provider and a formidable adversary, susceptible to the capricious moods of the river. Echoes of its past, of the labor and the lives that shaped it, can be felt in the very texture of the landscape, a quiet testament to resilience and adaptation in the face of nature’s enduring power.
Live animated radar for Welcome and surroundings — RainViewer.
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| Location | Welcome, St. James Parish, Louisiana |
| Coordinates | 30.059367°N, 90.868429°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 70084, 70086 |
| Area Code | 504 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Welcome, Louisiana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Welcome, Louisiana, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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 Welcome includes coordinates 30.059367°N, 90.868429°W, situated in St. James Parish. ZIP code 70084, 70086. 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. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.
