Buffalo River at Pruitt07055680
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.7 mi away/767 ft/98 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Jasper is 45° and clear at 6 AM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 64° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° 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.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 84°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 69°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:34 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 11:41 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 14 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 AM in Jasper, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Springdale (Springdale-Fayetteville-Bentonville) (AR), 53 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 23, good.
No smoke near the ground through Mon 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, 2.35 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Mon 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Jasper, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Jasper, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Buffalo River at Pruitt07055680
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.7 mi away/767 ft/98 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Hwy. 21 & Hwy 16 Edwards Junctio AR USARD26
Beside a road/14.6 mi away/2,221 ft/1,356 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/17.7 mi away/1,365 ft/500 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW1117GW1117
In a volunteer observer's own ground/30.6 mi away/1,342 ft/477 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
JasperJASA4
At a cooperative observer's station/0.8 mi away/902 ft/37 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Jasper 3.8 SEAR-NW-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.9 mi away/2,143 ft/1,278 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 17.7 mi from Jasper, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 5:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
45.0 F with a dew point of 35.0 F, 68 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,300 ft up.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 20 mph.
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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.