Now. Searcy Municipal Airport is 71° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. The dew point is 56°, so the air feels a little humid. Light air from the west at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 54° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 45° 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 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 85°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 66°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:31 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:40 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 18 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Searcy Municipal Airport, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 39, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Little Rock-North Little Rock (AR), 48 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 46, 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; 0.06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 / 19 | 6,008 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 13° / 193° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Searcy Muni Airport (M07) (SRC), Searcy Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
70 F at 10 PM Thursday; 93 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 68 F at its coolest, 8 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 58 F, the air 66% saturated; the humidity ran from 28% at 3 PM Thursday to 100% at 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
2 mph from the west at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 13 mph, 2 PM Thursday, with a gust of 17 mph at 1 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.02 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; 0.01 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 0.2 miles at 6 AM Thursday, under a mile for 3 hours; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 200 ft at 5 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 8 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
The 6 instruments nearest Searcy Municipal 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 now4 instruments
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/262 ft/3 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Hwy. 64 AugustaARD18
Beside a road/20.1 mi away/203 ft/62 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
On a farm or research station/26.2 mi away/250 ft/15 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Uapb-Lonoke FarmS2030
At a soil climate station/26.2 mi away/250 ft/15 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Searcy 1.8 SSEAR-WH-25
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/242 ft/23 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
SearcySRCA4
At a cooperative observer's station/2.8 mi away/292 ft/27 ft above 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.