Uapb-Earle ScanUAEA4
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.9 mi away/213 ft/3 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Parkin is 74° and partly cloudy at 12 AM. The dew point is 58°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the southwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 56° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° 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 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 60): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 84°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 65°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:26 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:35 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 18 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Parkin, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 60, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Memphis (TN), 33 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 44, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.50 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 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 Parkin, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Parkin, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Uapb-Earle ScanUAEA4
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.9 mi away/213 ft/3 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Uapb-EarleS2085
At a soil climate station/5.9 mi away/213 ft/3 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
I 555 And I 55 InterchangeARD20
Beside a road/18.1 mi away/236 ft/26 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/18.4 mi away/230 ft/20 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Parkin 0.1 WNWAR-CS-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/212 ft/2 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WynneWYYA4
At a cooperative observer's station/13.7 mi away/249 ft/39 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 18.4 mi from Parkin, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:50 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 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.
From the south (180 degrees) at 7 mph: force 2, a light 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.