Now. Blytheville Municipal Airport is 74° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 58°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the southwest at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 55° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 83°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 63°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:22 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:29 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 16 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Blytheville Municipal Airport, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 42, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Dyersburg (TN), 26 miles off.
Yesterday measured 34, 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; 0.11 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 / 36 | 5,002 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 179° / 359° | 6 mph head, on 18 | 5 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Blytheville (HKA), Blytheville Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
74 F at 10 PM Thursday; 94 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 72 F at its coolest, 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 60 F, the air 62% saturated; the humidity ran from 24% at 3 PM Thursday to 97% at 3 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
7 mph from the south southwest at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 16 mph, 3 PM Thursday, with a gust of 29 mph at 1 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.98 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, steady over 3 hours; 0.03 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
The lowest cloud base came down to 3,400 ft at 4 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 12 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
Blytheville: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Blytheville Municipal Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
BlythevilleHKA
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/253 ft/2 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I 55 And Hwy 150 OverpassARD27
Beside a road/4.0 mi away/269 ft/14 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Blytheville 6.1 EAR-MS-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/254 ft/1 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
On a farm or research station/23.0 mi away/226 ft/29 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.