Saint Francis National Forest RAWS NearSFFA4
A remote fire weather station/11.1 mi away/223 ft/6 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 24 degrees cooler: a high of 68° after 92° today.
Now. Lexa is 74° and mostly clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 55°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the south-southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 60° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 56): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 83°, and the coolest Saturday, near 66°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 22 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Lexa, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 56, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Hernando (MS), 46 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 36, good.
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 Thu 10 PM. 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 Lexa, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Lexa, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.9 miles away.
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Saint Francis National Forest RAWS NearSFFA4
A remote fire weather station/11.1 mi away/223 ft/6 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Uapb-MariannaS2084
At a soil climate station/13.5 mi away/217 ft/level with here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
I-40 & Dawson Forrest CityARD34
Beside a road/30.4 mi away/246 ft/29 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/36.4 mi away/230 ft/13 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
West Helena 6.4 WAR-PH-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.9 mi away/211 ft/6 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MariannaMRNA4
At a cooperative observer's station/9.5 mi away/230 ft/13 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 36.4 mi from Lexa, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:50 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 5,000 ft; the ceiling is 5,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
71.6 F with a dew point of 57.2 F, 60 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,300 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 5,000 ft.
From the south (180 degrees) at 9 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 24 mph.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Marianna (MRNA4), 9.5 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.