I-40 & Dawson Forrest CityARD34
Beside a road/4.3 mi away/246 ft/20 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Tomorrow is 25 degrees cooler: a high of 66° after 91° today.
Now. Madison is 74° and partly cloudy at 11 PM. The dew point is 57°, so the air feels a little humid. Light air from the south-southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 59° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 59): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 81°, and the coolest Saturday, near 65°. 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 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Madison, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 59, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Memphis (TN), 42 miles off.
Highest 58, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 44, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.21 in over 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 Madison, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Madison, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I-40 & Dawson Forrest CityARD34
Beside a road/4.3 mi away/246 ft/20 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/9.3 mi away/230 ft/36 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Uapb-Marianna ScanUAMA4
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.4 mi away/217 ft/49 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Uapb-MariannaS2084
At a soil climate station/16.4 mi away/217 ft/49 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Widener 4.9 NNEAR-SF-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.0 mi away/206 ft/60 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WynneWYYA4
At a cooperative observer's station/17.2 mi away/249 ft/17 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 9.3 mi from Madison, 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
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.