I-30 Red RiverARD04
Beside a road/13.5 mi away/266 ft/80 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Hope until 1 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Hope is 68° and mostly clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the northwest at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 46° 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 89°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 70°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:39 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:52 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 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Hope, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 26, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Arkadelphia-Caddo Valley (AR), 46 miles off.
Yesterday measured 46, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.03 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. 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 Hope, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Hope, 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
I-30 Red RiverARD04
Beside a road/13.5 mi away/266 ft/80 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Bluff City 3SW RAWSBLRA4
A remote fire weather station/24.7 mi away/371 ft/25 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/27.2 mi away/390 ft/44 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.5 mi away/377 ft/31 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hope 0.3 ENEAR-HM-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/353 ft/7 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Hope 3NEHOPA4
At a cooperative observer's station/3.8 mi away/358 ft/12 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 27.2 mi from Hope, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:45 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,200 ft; the ceiling is 2,200 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
71.0 F with a dew point of 66.0 F, 84 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,200 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 10 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 22 mph.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Hope 3NE (HOPA4), 3.8 miles from here, read 13 Oct, 06:00. measured daily
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.