Middle Fork of Little Red River at Shirley07075000
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.7 mi away/499 ft/7 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Edgemont is 67° and rain at 1 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the north-northwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 52° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 42° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 59): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 84°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 65°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:32 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:40 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Edgemont, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 59, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Little Rock-North Little Rock (AR), 61 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 46, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.38 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Edgemont, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Edgemont, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.4 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Middle Fork of Little Red River at Shirley07075000
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.7 mi away/499 ft/7 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
ClintonCCA
At an airfield/14.4 mi away/514 ft/8 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Hwy 65 Clinton at Archery Fork C AR USARD23
Beside a road/14.8 mi away/522 ft/16 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Batesville 8 WNW23904
At a climate reference station/27.8 mi away/455 ft/51 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Citizen station FW4831FW4831
In a volunteer observer's own ground/35.3 mi away/377 ft/129 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Higden 1.6 WSWAR-CB-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.4 mi away/522 ft/16 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Greers Ferry Dam-L. Red RiverGFOA4
At a dam/12.4 mi away/531 ft/25 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.4 mi from Edgemont, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 3,000 ft, broken at 6,000 ft, overcast at 6,500 ft; the ceiling is 6,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
69.8 F with a dew point of 66.2 F, 88 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,000 ft.
Calm.
The full report of Clinton, 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), 12.4 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.