Now. Newport Regional Airport is 73° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. The dew point is 56°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the west at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 54° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 83°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 64°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:36 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 17 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Newport Regional Airport, Arkansas.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.26 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 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 unlit | 5,002 ft | 150 ft | Concrete | 44° / 224° | 5 mph head, on 22 | 1 mph from the right |
| 18 / 36 | 5,002 ft | 150 ft | Concrete | 181° / 1° | 3 mph head, on 18 | 4 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Newport (M19), Newport Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
72 F at 10 PM Thursday; 93 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 67 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 56 F, the air 57% saturated; the humidity ran from 27% at 4 PM Thursday to 100% at 2 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 23 mph at 1 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.01 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; 0.01 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 5 miles at 6 PM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 4,400 ft at 3 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 11 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
Newport: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 6 instruments nearest Newport 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
NewportM19
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/239 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Us 67 at White RiverARD22
Beside a road/15.5 mi away/233 ft/6 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Lake Poinsett RAWSLPSA4
A remote fire weather station/28.5 mi away/354 ft/115 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Batesville 8 WNW23904
At a climate reference station/36.1 mi away/455 ft/216 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Newport 1.1 NWAR-JC-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.1 mi away/234 ft/5 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
NewportNPRA4
At a cooperative observer's station/6.5 mi away/223 ft/16 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Newport (NPRA4), 6.5 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.