At an airfield/2.7 mi away/533 ft/138 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Now. North Little Rock is 71° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 11 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 7 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 59): 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 2:00 AM in North Little Rock, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 59, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Little Rock-North Little Rock (AR), 7 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 54, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.01 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 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 North Little Rock, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest North Little Rock, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
At an airfield/2.7 mi away/533 ft/138 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I-30 East AR River BridgeARD33
Beside a road/3.0 mi away/226 ft/169 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station DW8400DW8400
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.0 mi away/256 ft/139 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Fourche Creek - University Ave.FCUA4
On a college campus/7.7 mi away/259 ft/136 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Uapb-Lonoke FarmS2030
At a soil climate station/21.8 mi away/250 ft/145 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
North Little Rock 0.6 WSWAR-PS-20
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/399 ft/4 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Cabot 4 SWCABA4
At a cooperative observer's station/19.4 mi away/305 ft/90 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 2.7 mi from North Little Rock, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 4,100 ft, broken at 5,000 ft; the ceiling is 5,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
78.8 F with a dew point of 51.8 F, 39 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 6,200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 4,100 ft.
From the west (270 degrees) at 9 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 18 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.