Ball, LA Weather Forecast
Rapides Parish, Louisiana
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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.
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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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