At an airfield/18.6 mi away/213 ft/8 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Now. Hughes is 70° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 58°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the west-southwest at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 56° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. 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 Thursday, near 84°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 65°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:26 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:35 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 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Hughes, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 58, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Hernando (MS), 29 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 53, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.52 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 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 Hughes, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Hughes, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 14.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/18.6 mi away/213 ft/8 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Saint Francis National Forest RAWS NearSFFA4
A remote fire weather station/19.5 mi away/223 ft/18 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
I-40 & Dawson Forrest CityARD34
Beside a road/19.7 mi away/246 ft/41 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Uapb-MariannaS2084
At a soil climate station/22.7 mi away/217 ft/12 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Widener 4.9 NNEAR-SF-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.0 mi away/206 ft/1 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
West MemphisWMPA4
At a cooperative observer's station/20.4 mi away/203 ft/2 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 18.6 mi from Hughes, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
74.0 F with a dew point of 55.0 F, 51 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,400 ft up.
From the southwest (220 degrees) at 8 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of West Memphis Muni, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at West Memphis (WMPA4), 20.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. 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.