Middle Fork of Little Red River at Shirley07075000
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.9 mi away/499 ft/6 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 25 degrees cooler: a high of 64° after 89° today.
Now. Higden is 70° and overcast at 11 PM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the west-northwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 51° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 58): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 64°. The days ahead look dry.
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. The day is 11 hours 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Higden, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 58, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Little Rock-North Little Rock (AR), 59 miles off.
Highest 55, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 46, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.43 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 Higden, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Higden, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.6 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Middle Fork of Little Red River at Shirley07075000
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.9 mi away/499 ft/6 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
ClintonCCA
At an airfield/14.0 mi away/514 ft/9 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Hwy 65 Clinton at Archery Fork C AR USARD23
Beside a road/14.5 mi away/522 ft/17 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Batesville 8 WNW23904
At a climate reference station/29.6 mi away/455 ft/50 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Citizen station EW4210EW4210
In a volunteer observer's own ground/33.6 mi away/434 ft/71 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Higden 1.6 WSWAR-CB-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/522 ft/17 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Greers Ferry Dam-L. Red RiverGFOA4
At a dam/12.0 mi away/531 ft/26 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.0 mi from Higden, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 7,500 ft; the ceiling is 7,500 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 7,500 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), 12.0 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.