Alexandria, LA Weather Forecast
Rapides Parish, Louisiana
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Alexandria, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
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
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Alexandria, LA at a glance
Alexandria is home to about 43,466 people in Rapides Parish, across 28 square miles. It ranks 9th 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
- 43,466 2023 est.
- Land area
- 28 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,526
- Forecast point
- 31.2934°N, 92.4702°W
How well can the network see Alexandria?
The nearest Doppler radar is KPOE (Fort Polk, LA), to the WSW. Its lowest scan passes about 1,900 ft above Alexandria. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Alexandria show up clearly. Alexandria is closer to its radar than 69% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KAEX (Alexandria Intl). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Alexandria
- Pineville, LA5 mi
- Ball, LA9 mi
- Marksville, LA27 mi
- Bunkie, LA29 mi
- Jena, LA34 mi
- Oakdale, LA35 mi
- Ville Platte, LA43 mi
- Winnfield, LA45 mi
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