Hwy. 21 & Hwy 16 Edwards Junctio AR USARD26
Beside a road/8.1 mi away/2,221 ft/9 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Deer is 52° and overcast at 4 AM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° 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.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. 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 10:44 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 4:00 AM in Deer, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 13, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Springdale (Springdale-Fayetteville-Bentonville) (AR), 56 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, 1.30 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 10 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Deer, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Deer, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Hwy. 21 & Hwy 16 Edwards Junctio AR USARD26
Beside a road/8.1 mi away/2,221 ft/9 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Buffalo River near Boxley07055646
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.9 mi away/1,142 ft/1,070 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/30.2 mi away/1,365 ft/847 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW4198GW4198
In a volunteer observer's own ground/38.7 mi away/889 ft/1,323 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Jasper 13.4 SWAR-NW-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.4 mi away/2,229 ft/17 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
JasperJASA4
At a cooperative observer's station/13.2 mi away/902 ft/1,310 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 30.2 mi from Deer, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 2,500 ft, broken at 3,000 ft, overcast at 8,000 ft; the ceiling is 3,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
55.0 F with a dew point of 49.0 F, 80 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 2,500 ft.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 9 mph, gusting 24 mph: force 3, a gentle 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.