At an airfield/3.2 mi away/354 ft/80 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for De Queen until 1 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. De Queen is 53° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 45° by 7 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 89°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 71°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 35% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in De Queen, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 25, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Arkadelphia-Caddo Valley (AR), 72 miles off.
Yesterday measured 46, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over De Queen, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest De Queen, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/3.2 mi away/354 ft/80 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rolling Fork near DeQueen07339500
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.9 mi away/318 ft/116 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Hwy 71 at Rxr Overpass De Queen AR USARD08
Beside a road/6.5 mi away/614 ft/180 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
DequeenDQEA4
At a cooperative observer's station/0.5 mi away/436 ft/2 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
De Queen 0.9 NEAR-SV-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/442 ft/8 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.2 mi from De Queen, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 10:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
53.0 F with a dew point of 37.0 F, 54 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,600 ft up.
From the north (360 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 35 mph.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Dequeen (DQEA4), 0.5 miles from here, read 16 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.