At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,250 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Drake Field, Arkansas
Medium airport in Washington County, Arkansas70°
82°/65°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 70°·Gentle breeze 9 mph NW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 23 degrees cooler: a high of 59° after 82° today.
Now. Drake Field is 70° and mostly clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 47° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 35°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 9:53 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
29Air quality
88%Humidity
26%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
70feels70
25%
Today
Oct 15
8265
80%
14mph
Fri
Oct 16
5944
16%
21mph
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
6337
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6835
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7241
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7744
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8148
overcast
70°
82°65°
59°44°
63°37°
68°35°
72°41°
77°44°
81°48°
As of 9:00 PM in Drake Field, Arkansas.
Air quality
The air at Drake Field
Index 29, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Springdale (Springdale-Fayetteville-Bentonville) (AR), 12 miles off.
29Good
- Ozone29Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 24, good.
GoodModerate
- 24YesterdayOct 14
- 40TodayOct 15
- 30FriOct 16
- 35SatOct 17
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Drake Field
0.24 in in the last 24 hours, 1.60 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.24in
- Last 3 days
- 1.60in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 15%
Visibility
How far you can see at Drake Field, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 5 miles Thu 10 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- FYV
- ICAO
- KFYV
- IATA
- FYV
- Field elevation
- 1,251 ft
- Serves
- Fayetteville
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- FYV
- Wind now
- From 240° at 7 mph, read 15 Oct, 20:53
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 / 34 | 6,005 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 169° / 349° | 2 mph head, on 16 | 7 mph from the right |
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Drake 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
Strickler - RAWSSTKA4
A remote fire weather station/11.8 mi away/1,667 ft/416 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beside a road/14.3 mi away/1,152 ft/99 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Greenland 1.9 SEAR-WS-53
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/1,429 ft/178 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Expl StationFYVA4
At a cooperative observer's station/6.6 mi away/1,270 ft/19 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Arkansas
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
BatesvillecityBentonvillecityBuffalo National RiverfeatureConwaycityEl DoradocityEureka SpringstownFayettevillecityFort SmithcityHarrisoncityHot SpringscityJonesborocityLake OuachitafeatureLittle RockcityMount MagazinefeatureMountain HomecityOuachita National ForestfeatureOzark National ForestfeaturePine BluffcityRogerscityRussellvillecitySearcycitySpringdalecityTexarkanacity
Near Drake Field
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Greenlandcity, 1 mi
- Fayettevillecity, 4 mi
- Farmingtoncity, 5 mi
- West Forkcity, 5 mi
- Elkinscity, 8 mi
- Prairie Grovecity, 8 mi
- Johnsoncity, 9 mi
- Goshentown, 10 mi
- Tontitowncity, 12 mi
- Springdalecity, 13 mi
- Elm Springscity, 14 mi
- Wesleycommunity, 14 mi
Airports near Drake Field
- Springdale Municipal AirportASG, 12 mi
- Northwest Arkansas National AirportXNA, 21 mi
- Smith FieldSLG, 22 mi
- Bentonville Municipal-Louise M Thaden FieldVBT, 24 mi
- Rogers Municipal Airport-Carter FieldROG, 26 mi
- Fort Smith Regional AirportFSM, 47 mi
- Boone County AirportHRO, 59 mi
- Russellville Regional AirportRUE, 79 mi