ComptonCMTA4
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.8 mi away/2,346 ft/757 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Kingston until 1 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Kingston is 55° and overcast at 3 AM. The dew point is 51°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 27 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 48° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:37 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:44 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 16 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Kingston, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Springdale (Springdale-Fayetteville-Bentonville) (AR), 35 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.14 in in the last 24 hours, 1.95 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Kingston, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Kingston, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.3 miles away.
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ComptonCMTA4
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.8 mi away/2,346 ft/757 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Hwy. 21 & Hwy 16 Edwards Junctio AR USARD26
Beside a road/16.8 mi away/2,221 ft/632 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/24.6 mi away/1,365 ft/224 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW1117GW1117
In a volunteer observer's own ground/32.3 mi away/1,342 ft/247 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Kingston 2SKNGA4
At a cooperative observer's station/3.3 mi away/2,133 ft/544 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Metalton 3.5 WAR-CR-15
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.5 mi away/1,534 ft/55 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 24.6 mi from Kingston, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:37 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 1,200 ft, broken at 2,700 ft, overcast at 4,100 ft; the ceiling is 2,700 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
56.0 F with a dew point of 51.0 F, 83 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 1,200 ft.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 12 mph, gusting 23 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 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.