Mountain Home/Baxter CountyBPK
At an airfield/3.9 mi away/928 ft/141 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Now. Lakeview is 55° and overcast at 4 AM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 59° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° 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 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 83°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 63°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:33 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:39 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Lakeview, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 9, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Springfield (MO), 74 miles off.
Yesterday measured 31, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.68 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lakeview, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Lakeview, 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
Mountain Home/Baxter CountyBPK
At an airfield/3.9 mi away/928 ft/141 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW1087GW1087
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.7 mi away/745 ft/42 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Crooked Creek at Kelly Crossing at Yellville07055607
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.8 mi away/561 ft/226 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Hwy 62 HendersonARD31
Beside a road/16.9 mi away/604 ft/183 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Bull Shoals 3.1 EAR-MR-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/770 ft/17 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Bull Shoals 1SBSHA4
At a cooperative observer's station/2.1 mi away/680 ft/107 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.9 mi from Lakeview, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:31 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 2,600 ft, broken at 3,200 ft, overcast at 9,500 ft; the ceiling is 3,200 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
56.0 F with a dew point of 48.0 F, 74 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,600 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 8 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 25 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.