Saline River near Sheridan07363200
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.2 mi away/153 ft/116 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Special Weather Statement, in full
Alert. A Special Weather Statement is in force for Leola until 8 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Leola is 66° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Light air from the west-northwest at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 56° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 45° 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 66°. 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 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Leola, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 25, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Arkadelphia-Caddo Valley (AR), 29 miles off.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 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 Leola, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Leola, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 11.2 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Saline River near Sheridan07363200
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.2 mi away/153 ft/116 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW5898GW5898
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.2 mi away/271 ft/2 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Hwy 167 ThorntonARD05
Beside a road/27.2 mi away/361 ft/92 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
ArkadelphiaADF
At an airfield/27.7 mi away/189 ft/80 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Uapb Campus-PBS2083
At a soil climate station/32.7 mi away/232 ft/37 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
SheridanSHDA4
At a cooperative observer's station/14.5 mi away/269 ft/level with here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Malvern 3.9 SEAR-HS-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.0 mi away/538 ft/269 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 27.7 mi from Leola, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
63.0 F with a dew point of 59.0 F, 87 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 900 ft up.
Calm.
The full report of Arkadelphia, 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.