Buffalo River at Ponca07055660
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.8 mi away/990 ft/569 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Buffalo National River, Arkansas
National River in Newton County, Arkansas63°
57°/49°
Overcast·
Feels like 63°·Moderate breeze 14 mph NNW
Now. Buffalo National River is 63° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 58°, so the air feels a little humid. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 48° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 42° by 6 AM, with some cloud. 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 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:36 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:43 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 day is 11 hours 16 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
31Air quality
81%Humidity
91%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
63feels63
24%
14mph
Today
Oct 16
5749
40%
17mph
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
6142
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6641
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7146
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7650
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7955
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
8259
overcast
63°
57°49°
61°42°
66°41°
71°46°
76°50°
79°55°
82°59°
As of 12:00 AM in Buffalo National River, Arkansas.
Air quality
The air at Buffalo National River
Index 31, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Springdale (Springdale-Fayetteville-Bentonville) (AR), 46 miles off.
31Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)31Good-
- Ozone18Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 24, good.
GoodModerate
- 24YesterdayOct 14
- 30TodayOct 16
- 35SatOct 17
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Buffalo National River
0.35 in in the last 24 hours, 2.45 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.35in
- Last 3 days
- 2.45in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 14%
Visibility
How far you can see at Buffalo National River, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 2 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- National River
- Area
- 146 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,559 ft
- County
- Newton County
- State
- Arkansas
- Latitude
- 36.0411° N
- Longitude
- 93.3100° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Buffalo National River, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Hwy. 21 & Hwy 16 Edwards Junctio AR USARD26
Beside a road/13.6 mi away/2,221 ft/662 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/17.5 mi away/1,365 ft/194 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW1117GW1117
In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.9 mi away/1,342 ft/217 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
ComptonCMPA4
At a cooperative observer's station/3.6 mi away/2,153 ft/594 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Harrison 10.6 SWAR-BN-22
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.9 mi away/2,077 ft/518 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Arkansas
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Buffalo National River
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Poncacommunity, 3 mi
- Jaspercity, 7 mi
- Waytoncommunity, 9 mi
- Kingstoncommunity, 11 mi
- Bataviacommunity, 15 mi
- Deercommunity, 16 mi
- Mount Judeacommunity, 17 mi
- Harrisoncity, 17 mi
- Alpenatown, 17 mi
- Bellefontetown, 18 mi
- Valley Springstown, 19 mi
- Western Grovetown, 20 mi