At a river or reservoir gauge/2.5 mi away/784 ft/213 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Talimena State Park until 1 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Talimena State Park is 56° and overcast at 3 AM. The dew point is 54°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 16 mph, gusting to 36 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 50° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 42° by 7 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 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:44 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:54 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 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Talimena State Park, Oklahoma.
Air quality
Index 11, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, McAlester (OK), 46 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 27, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.30 in in the last 24 hours, 0.41 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 4 instruments nearest Talimena State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.5 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.5 mi away/784 ft/213 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Robert S Kerr Airport/PoteauRKR
At an airfield/25.0 mi away/453 ft/544 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Wister Dam - Poteau RiverWSLO2
At a cooperative observer's station/17.0 mi away/515 ft/482 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Wister 4.3 NNWOK-LF-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.4 mi away/615 ft/382 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.