Temperature
74 F at 10 PM; 92 F at its warmest, 2 PM, and 72 F at its coolest, 9 PM.
- Now
- 74F
- 10 PM
- Highest
- 92F
- 2 PM
- Lowest
- 72F
- 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. Memorial Field Airport is 72° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 54°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west-northwest at 4 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 84°, 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 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 11:00 PM in Memorial Field Airport, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 30, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Arkadelphia-Caddo Valley (AR), 21 miles off.
Yesterday measured 26, 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; 0.04 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 | 6,595 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 54° / 234° | - | - |
| 13 / 31 | 4,098 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 134° / 314° | - | - |
Measured here
Every hour from Hot Springs (HOT), Memorial Field Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
74 F at 10 PM; 92 F at its warmest, 2 PM, and 72 F at its coolest, 9 PM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 54 F, the air 50% saturated; the humidity ran from 22% at 3 PM to 90% at 12 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
3 mph from the northwest at 10 PM; at its strongest 10 mph, 9 AM, with a gust of 20 mph at 9 AM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.05 inHg at 10 PM, rising 0.05 inHg over 3 hours; 0.05 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 6 miles at 1 PM; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 12,000 ft at 6 AM; a base was reported in 2 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
Hot Springs: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Memorial Field Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Hot SpringsHOT
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/541 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/7.1 mi away/456 ft/84 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
JessievilleJVLA4
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.3 mi away/679 ft/139 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hot Springs 3.4 SWAR-GL-17
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/441 ft/99 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Park ServiceHOTA4
At a cooperative observer's station/3.7 mi away/827 ft/287 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Park Service (HOTA4), 3.7 miles from here, read 13 Oct, 08:00. 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.