Hwy 5 South East Of Mt. ViewARD25
Beside a road/11.8 mi away/1,109 ft/119 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Drasco is 53° and overcast at 7 AM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 61° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° 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 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 63°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:31 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:39 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 7:00 AM in Drasco, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Little Rock-North Little Rock (AR), 67 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 54, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, 0.12 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Drasco, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Drasco, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.7 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Hwy 5 South East Of Mt. ViewARD25
Beside a road/11.8 mi away/1,109 ft/119 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Batesville Climate Reference Network StaBCRA4
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.3 mi away/459 ft/531 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Batesville 8 WNW23904
At a climate reference station/16.4 mi away/455 ft/535 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
At an airfield/18.4 mi away/463 ft/527 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW4831FW4831
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.8 mi away/377 ft/613 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Prim 3.2 SSEAR-CB-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.7 mi away/1,001 ft/11 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Greers Ferry Dam-L. Red RiverGFOA4
At a dam/8.2 mi away/531 ft/459 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 18.4 mi from Drasco, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 7:03 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 2,800 ft, overcast at 6,000 ft; the ceiling is 6,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
59.0 F with a dew point of 48.2 F, 67 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,800 ft.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 9 mph, gusting 16 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 26 mph.
The full report of Batesville (AWOS), in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Greers Ferry Dam-L. Red River (GFOA4), 8.2 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:15. 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.