Ball, LA Weather Forecast
Rapides Parish, Louisiana
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The next few hours
A dry evening, clear
It is 54° with a dew point of 26°, which is dry for this time of year. The sky is clear.
Nothing in the next day and a half is wet enough to move plans for.
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Dry and warming through tomorrow
Nothing wet is expected over the next day and a half.
The overnight low settles near 40°. Tomorrow reaches 62°, 9° warmer than today.
Sunrise and sunset
Next five days, scored 0 to 100The first day or two use the HRRR and NBM cloud layers. Later days only have total cloud, so treat them as a rough guide.
Know when sunset at this place will be worth a photo
We score every sunrise and sunset here from the cloud, haze and smoke forecast, and let you know when one is likely to light up. Sunrise the evening before, sunset a few hours ahead.
Seven-day outlook
40–77°F across the weekThe week runs between 40° and 75°, with Thursday the warmest day of it. The second half leans warming, and today is the coolest day in it. Monday is the wettest day, peaking near 61%. 5 of the 7 days stay dry.
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Ball, LA at a glance
Ball is home to about 3,811 people in Rapides Parish, across 8 square miles. It ranks 78th by population of 105 places in Louisiana with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Pineville, 5 miles away.
- County
- Rapides Parish
- Population
- 3,811 2023 est.
- Land area
- 8 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 479
- Forecast point
- 31.4187°N, 92.4084°W
How well can the network see Ball?
The nearest Doppler radar is KPOE (Fort Polk, LA), to the WSW. Its lowest scan passes about 2,500 ft above Ball. Close enough to see rotation in the low part of a storm, where tornadoes form. Ball is closer to its radar than 58% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KESF (Alexandria/Esler Rgnl). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Ball
- Pineville, LA5 mi
- Alexandria, LA9 mi
- Jena, LA25 mi
- Marksville, LA29 mi
- Bunkie, LA35 mi
- Winnfield, LA38 mi
- Oakdale, LA44 mi
- Natchitoches, LA46 mi
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