Temperature
69 F at 10 PM; 94 F at its warmest, 3 PM, and 69 F at its coolest, 9 PM.
- Now
- 69F
- 10 PM
- Highest
- 94F
- 3 PM
- Lowest
- 69F
- 9 PM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Tomorrow is 24 degrees cooler: a high of 67° after 91° today.
Now. Conway Regional Airport is 69° and overcast at 11 PM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the west at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 53° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 83°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 67°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 day is 11 hours 20 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Conway Regional Airport, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 39, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Little Rock-North Little Rock (AR), 24 miles off.
Highest 55, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 46, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.08 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 | 6,005 ft | 100 ft | concrete | - | - | - |
Measured here
Every hour from Conway (CXW), Conway Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
69 F at 10 PM; 94 F at its warmest, 3 PM, and 69 F at its coolest, 9 PM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 60 F, the air 73% saturated; the humidity ran from 23% at 1 PM to 100% at 12 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 10 PM; at its strongest 18 mph, 1 PM, with a gust of 22 mph at 12 PM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.01 inHg at 10 PM, rising 0.04 inHg over 3 hours; 0.02 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 0.3 miles at 4 AM, under a mile for 2 hours; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 200 ft at 4 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
Conway: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 6 instruments nearest Conway Regional 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
ConwayCXW
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/268 ft/8 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I-430 River Bridge Sb Pole 61ARD15
Beside a road/18.3 mi away/249 ft/27 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At a river or reservoir gauge/24.6 mi away/315 ft/39 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Uapb Point RemoveS2090
At a soil climate station/24.6 mi away/315 ft/39 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Bigelow 1.9 NEAR-PY-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.1 mi away/289 ft/13 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ConwayCNYA4
At a cooperative observer's station/8.4 mi away/322 ft/46 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
-
Snow on the ground
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.