I-30 Red RiverARD04
Beside a road/19.6 mi away/266 ft/85 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Mineral Springs until 1 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Mineral Springs is 58° and mostly clear at 8 PM. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 10 mph, gusting to 22 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 47° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 88°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 70°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:53 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 21 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 PM in Mineral Springs, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 26, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Arkadelphia-Caddo Valley (AR), 51 miles off.
Yesterday measured 46, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Mineral Springs, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Mineral Springs, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I-30 Red RiverARD04
Beside a road/19.6 mi away/266 ft/85 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Cossatot River near DeQueen07340500
At a river or reservoir gauge/20.5 mi away/336 ft/15 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/29.5 mi away/390 ft/39 ft above here
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In a volunteer observer's own ground/31.8 mi away/377 ft/26 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Mineral Springs 0.1 NAR-HW-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/360 ft/9 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
NashvilleNSVA4
At a cooperative observer's station/5.4 mi away/377 ft/26 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 29.5 mi from Mineral Springs, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 7:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
59.0 F with a dew point of 36.0 F, 42 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 5,200 ft up.
From the north (350 degrees) at 10 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 35 mph.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Nashville (NSVA4), 5.4 miles from here, read 16 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.