Lee Creek at Lee Creek Reservoir near Van Buren07250085
At a reservoir/2.7 mi away/401 ft/240 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 23 degrees cooler: a high of 64° after 87° today.
Now. Dora is 67° and overcast at 11 PM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 10 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 52° by 8 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 83°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 64°. Rain is possible tomorrow (35%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Dora, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Roland (OK), 7 miles off.
Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.07 in in the last 24 hours, 0.42 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. 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 Dora, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Dora, 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 now4 instruments
Lee Creek at Lee Creek Reservoir near Van Buren07250085
At a reservoir/2.7 mi away/401 ft/240 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
I-540 Fort SmithARD21
Beside a road/5.4 mi away/413 ft/228 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station FW8395FW8395
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.7 mi away/456 ft/185 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/9.5 mi away/463 ft/178 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Van Buren 4.4 WNWAR-CF-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/576 ft/65 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Water PlantMTBA4
At a cooperative observer's station/20.3 mi away/794 ft/153 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 9.5 mi from Dora, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,100 ft, overcast at 12,000 ft; the ceiling is 2,100 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
72.0 F with a dew point of 65.0 F, 79 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,600 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,100 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 23 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 25 mph.
The full report of Fort Smith Muni, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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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.