I 555 And I 55 InterchangeARD20
Beside a road/8.6 mi away/236 ft/15 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Clarkedale is 61° and overcast at 1 PM. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 16 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 64° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 49° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 64°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:24 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:33 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 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 PM in Clarkedale, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 26, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, Memphis (TN), 17 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 58, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 1.80 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Clarkedale, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Clarkedale, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I 555 And I 55 InterchangeARD20
Beside a road/8.6 mi away/236 ft/15 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/10.8 mi away/213 ft/8 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Uapb-Earle ScanUAEA4
At a river or reservoir gauge/14.6 mi away/213 ft/8 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Uapb-EarleS2085
At a soil climate station/14.6 mi away/213 ft/8 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Marion 0.7 NWAR-CT-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.3 mi away/222 ft/1 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
West MemphisWMPA4
At a cooperative observer's station/11.2 mi away/203 ft/18 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.8 mi from Clarkedale, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 7,500 ft; the ceiling is 7,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
60.0 F with a dew point of 39.0 F, 46 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 7,500 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 14 mph, gusting 28 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 31 mph.
The full report of West Memphis Muni, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at West Memphis (WMPA4), 11.2 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 08:00. 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.