Red River at Index07337000
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.6 mi away/247 ft/75 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Ashdown until 1 AM Saturday. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 23 degrees cooler: a high of 68° after 91° today.
Now. Ashdown is 73° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the west-southwest at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 58° 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 86°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 68°. 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 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 23 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Ashdown, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Arkadelphia-Caddo Valley (AR), 68 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 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. 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
On the radar over Ashdown, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Ashdown, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Red River at Index07337000
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.6 mi away/247 ft/75 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/17.0 mi away/390 ft/68 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I-30 Red RiverARD04
Beside a road/18.3 mi away/266 ft/56 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.1 mi away/377 ft/55 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Ashdown 4SSEASHA4
At a cooperative observer's station/4.0 mi away/344 ft/22 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Ashdown 6.7 ENEAR-LR-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.6 mi away/321 ft/1 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 17.0 mi from Ashdown, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 9:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
76.0 F with a dew point of 65.0 F, 69 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,600 ft up.
From the south southwest (210 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 17 mph.
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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.