Temperature
68 F at 1 PM; 92 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 62 F at its coolest, 4 AM.
- Now
- 68F
- 1 PM
- Highest
- 92F
- 3 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 62F
- 4 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Harrell Field until 8 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Harrell Field is 68° and overcast at 1 PM. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 69° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 88°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 69°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:36 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:49 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 21 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 PM in Harrell Field, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 24, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, Arkadelphia-Caddo Valley (AR), 43 miles off.
Yesterday measured 46, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.02 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 / 19 | 6,501 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 9° / 189° | 11 mph head, on 01 | 6 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Camden (CDH), Harrell Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
68 F at 1 PM; 92 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 62 F at its coolest, 4 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 44 F, the air 41% saturated; the humidity ran from 27% at 5 PM Thursday to 91% at 4 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
13 mph from the north northwest at 1 PM; at its strongest 17 mph, 9 AM, with a gust of 24 mph at 9 AM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.26 inHg at 1 PM, steady over 3 hours; 0.26 inHg higher than 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 2,000 ft at 7 AM; a base was reported in 10 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
Camden: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Harrell Field, 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 now3 instruments
CamdenCDH
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/130 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Hwy 167 ThorntonARD05
Beside a road/20.6 mi away/361 ft/231 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Bluff City 3SW RAWSBLRA4
A remote fire weather station/23.4 mi away/371 ft/241 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Camden 1CADA4
At a cooperative observer's station/4.1 mi away/115 ft/15 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Camden 2.5 NWAR-OC-14
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.4 mi away/162 ft/32 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Camden 1 (CADA4), 4.1 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 07:00. 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.