Winnfield, Louisiana Weather
Winnfield, 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 Winnfield, Winn Parish.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Winnfield. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Winnfield is published on the David G Joyce Airport (K0R5) page, 5 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. 5 airfields within reach of Winnfield 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 Winnfield: Jonesboro Airport (KF88) 32 km · Natchitoches Regional Airport (KIER) 48 km · Jena Airport (K1R1) 54 km · Caldwell Parish Airport (KF86) 59 km
Conditions reported at K0R5 describe the airfield itself. Weather 5 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Winnfield specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Winnfield.
About Winnfield, Louisiana
Winnfield’s sky, when it’s not a bruised purple of an approaching storm, often bleeds into a soft, hazy gold as the sun begins its descent. It lies 43.9 miles north-north-west of Alexandria, LA (from Alexandria, LA: bearing 345°T), and is situated 28.6 miles east-north-east of Natchitoches. The land itself is a patient, rolling expanse of pine forests and broadleaf hardwoods, punctuated by the occasional glint of a slow-moving bayou or a man-made pond reflecting the sky. The air carries the damp, earthy scent of the Southern soil, mingling with the fainter, sweeter aroma of pine needles baking in the sun, a fragrance that clings to your clothes long after you’ve left the woods. Houses here, many of them weathered clapboard affairs, seem to shrink a little under the immensity of the heavens, their porches offering a quiet invitation to observe the slow, predictable turning of the day. The deep roots of Winnfield are entwined with timber and oil, industries that have shaped its fortunes and its character over the years. The rich, dark earth, once cleared of its primeval forests, yielded to cotton and then to cattle, a rhythm of agriculture that still pulses beneath the surface, even as the scent of diesel from drilling rigs sometimes hangs in the air. This is a place where history is not so much a grand monument as it is a quiet persistence, a legacy carried in the names of families and the weathered facades of buildings that have seen generations come and go. The local economy, while diverse, still feels the pull of the land, the tangible connection to the resources that have always sustained Winnfield.
Live animated radar for Winnfield 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 | Winnfield, Winn Parish, Louisiana |
| Coordinates | 31.925441°N, 92.639593°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 71483 |
| Area Code | 318 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Winnfield, Louisiana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Winnfield, 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 Winnfield includes coordinates 31.925441°N, 92.639593°W, situated in Winn Parish. ZIP code 71483. 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.
