I-440 at Rixey RoadARD16
Beside a road/3.2 mi away/249 ft/24 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. McAlmont is 69° and overcast at 4 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 56° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° 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. Air quality is moderate (index 58): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 85°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 66°. 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 10:43 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 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in McAlmont, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 58, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Little Rock-North Little Rock (AR), 10 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 54, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
None in 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 McAlmont, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest McAlmont, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.7 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
I-440 at Rixey RoadARD16
Beside a road/3.2 mi away/249 ft/24 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/4.3 mi away/533 ft/260 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW8400DW8400
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.3 mi away/256 ft/17 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Fourche Creek - University Ave.FCUA4
On a college campus/10.5 mi away/259 ft/14 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Uapb-Lonoke FarmS2030
At a soil climate station/18.0 mi away/250 ft/23 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
North Little Rock 3.6 ESEAR-PS-87
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/254 ft/19 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Cabot 4 SWCABA4
At a cooperative observer's station/16.7 mi away/305 ft/32 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 4.3 mi from McAlmont, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,900 ft; the ceiling is 1,900 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
68.0 F with a dew point of 60.8 F, 78 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,900 ft.
From the north (360 degrees) at 18 mph, gusting 26 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 31 mph.
The full report of North Little Rock, 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.