Cypress Creek nr Birdtown07261090
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.7 mi away/388 ft/375 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Center Ridge is 67° and light rain at 1 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the north-northwest at 7 mph, gusting to 18 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 52° 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. 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 83°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 64°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:34 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 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 1:00 AM in Center Ridge, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 59, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Little Rock-North Little Rock (AR), 47 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; 0.31 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 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
On the radar over Center Ridge, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Center Ridge, 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 now5 instruments
Cypress Creek nr Birdtown07261090
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.7 mi away/388 ft/375 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
ClintonCCA
At an airfield/16.1 mi away/514 ft/249 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Hwy 65 Clinton at Archery Fork C AR USARD23
Beside a road/16.4 mi away/522 ft/241 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW4210EW4210
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.2 mi away/434 ft/329 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Uapb Point RemoveS2090
At a soil climate station/23.9 mi away/315 ft/448 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Center Ridge 4SCTRA4
At a cooperative observer's station/4.0 mi away/676 ft/87 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Springfield 3.7 NWAR-CW-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.7 mi away/442 ft/321 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 16.1 mi from Center Ridge, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 3,000 ft, broken at 6,000 ft, overcast at 6,500 ft; the ceiling is 6,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
69.8 F with a dew point of 66.2 F, 88 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,000 ft.
Calm.
The full report of Clinton, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Center Ridge 4S (CTRA4), 4.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.