Now. West Memphis Municipal Airport is 72° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 54°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the southwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 55° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 60): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 83°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 64°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:25 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:34 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 18 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in West Memphis Municipal Airport, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 60, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Memphis (TN), 13 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 44, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.02 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 / 35 | 6,003 ft | 100 ft | Concrete | 180° / 0° | 5 mph head, on 17 | 1 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from West Memphis Muni (AWM), West Memphis Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
73 F at 10 PM Thursday; 91 F at its warmest, 1 PM Thursday, and 69 F at its coolest, 5 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 55 F, the air 53% saturated; the humidity ran from 27% at 11 AM Thursday to 82% at 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
4 mph from the south at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 10 mph, 11 AM Thursday, with a gust of 24 mph at 11 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.00 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, steady over 3 hours; the same as a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
10 miles or more every hour.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 6,500 ft at 2 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 4 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
West Memphis Muni: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 6 instruments nearest West Memphis Municipal Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/213 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Uapb-Earle ScanUAEA4
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.7 mi away/213 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Uapb-EarleS2085
At a soil climate station/15.7 mi away/213 ft/1 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
I 555 And I 55 InterchangeARD20
Beside a road/17.9 mi away/236 ft/24 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
West Memphis 1.0 WSWAR-CT-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.2 mi away/208 ft/4 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
West MemphisWMPA4
At a cooperative observer's station/3.1 mi away/203 ft/9 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at West Memphis (WMPA4), 3.1 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.