Hwy 167 ThorntonARD05
Beside a road/7.8 mi away/361 ft/144 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Special Weather Statement, in full
Alert. A Special Weather Statement is in force for Ivan until 8 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Ivan is 66° and overcast at 1 PM. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 13 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 67° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° 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 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 86°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 67°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:35 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:47 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 21 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 PM in Ivan, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 24, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, Arkadelphia-Caddo Valley (AR), 43 miles off.
Yesterday measured 46, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM: the index from smoke stays at 33 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.02 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Ivan, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Ivan, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.1 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Hwy 167 ThorntonARD05
Beside a road/7.8 mi away/361 ft/144 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Saline River near Sheridan07363200
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.1 mi away/153 ft/64 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW7438GW7438
In a volunteer observer's own ground/25.4 mi away/140 ft/77 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
CamdenCDH
At an airfield/27.2 mi away/130 ft/87 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Uapb Campus-PBS2083
At a soil climate station/33.5 mi away/232 ft/15 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Fordyce 6.6 NNWAR-DL-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.1 mi away/276 ft/59 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
FordyceFRDA4
At a cooperative observer's station/5.8 mi away/285 ft/68 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 27.2 mi from Ivan, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 8,000 ft, overcast at 11,000 ft; the ceiling is 8,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
68.0 F with a dew point of 43.5 F, 41 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 5,600 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 8,000 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 13 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 24 mph.
The full report of Camden, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.