At a river or reservoir gauge/2.6 mi away/315 ft/49 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Atkins is 72° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. The dew point is 70°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the northwest at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 54° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° 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. Air quality is moderate (index 59): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 84°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 66°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:35 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:45 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 Atkins, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 59, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Little Rock-North Little Rock (AR), 49 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 46, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.30 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.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Atkins, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Atkins, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.5 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.6 mi away/315 ft/49 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Uapb Point RemoveS2090
At a soil climate station/2.6 mi away/315 ft/49 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Russellville Municipal AirportRUE
At an airfield/9.0 mi away/404 ft/40 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.5 mi away/366 ft/2 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
I-40 Big Piney CreekARD19
Beside a road/23.3 mi away/344 ft/20 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Russellville 10.6 EAR-PP-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/844 ft/480 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MorriltonMRLA4
At a cooperative observer's station/11.3 mi away/341 ft/23 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 9.0 mi from Atkins, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 6,000 ft, broken at 9,000 ft, broken at 11,000 ft; the ceiling is 9,000 ft; visibility 6 mi.
72.0 F with a dew point of 71.0 F, 97 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 6,000 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 7 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 28 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.