At an airfield/3.5 mi away/1,365 ft/142 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Now. Batavia is 62° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 58°, so the air feels a little humid. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 47° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° 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 10:42 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Batavia, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Springdale (Springdale-Fayetteville-Bentonville) (AR), 50 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 24, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.13 in in the last 24 hours, 1.55 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Batavia, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Batavia, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/3.5 mi away/1,365 ft/142 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Green Forest 7NNEGRNA4
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.8 mi away/1,227 ft/280 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW1117GW1117
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.7 mi away/1,342 ft/165 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Hwy 65 Cricket CreekARD32
Beside a road/14.7 mi away/1,165 ft/342 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Harrison 6.6 WAR-BN-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/1,274 ft/233 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Harrison ArHARA4
At a cooperative observer's station/5.6 mi away/1,148 ft/359 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.5 mi from Batavia, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,000 ft; the ceiling is 1,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
64.0 F with a dew point of 58.0 F, 81 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,000 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 14 mph, gusting 24 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 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.