Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for South Arkansas Regional Airport at Goodwin Field until 1 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. South Arkansas Regional Airport at Goodwin Field is 67° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. The air is calm.
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 90°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 69°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:37 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:51 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 22 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in South Arkansas Regional Airport at Goodwin Field, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 48, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Monroe (LA), 66 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 47, 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; 0.01 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 | 6,601 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 46° / 226° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from El Dorado/Goodwin (ELD), South Arkansas Regional Airport at Goodwin Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
67 F at 10 PM Thursday; 91 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 66 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 58 F, the air 73% saturated; the humidity ran from 24% at 4 PM Thursday to 90% at 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 8 mph, 10 AM Thursday, with a gust of 17 mph at 12 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.05 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; 0.02 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
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
El Dorado/Goodwin: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest South Arkansas Regional Airport at Goodwin 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
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/253 ft/24 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/10.6 mi away/256 ft/21 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Locust Ridge RAWSLRRA4
A remote fire weather station/36.3 mi away/108 ft/169 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Junction City 6.8 NNWAR-UN-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.8 mi away/206 ft/71 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ouachita River 7 SE Thatcher L&DCALA4
At a cooperative observer's station/19.8 mi away/95 ft/182 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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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.