Sheridan RAWSSDNA4
A remote fire weather station/9.5 mi away/269 ft/28 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Special Weather Statement, in full
Alert. A Special Weather Statement is in force for Prattsville until 8 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Prattsville is 67° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels a little humid. Light air from the west-northwest at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 56° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 45° 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 54): 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 65°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:35 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:46 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 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Prattsville, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 54, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Little Rock-North Little Rock (AR), 31 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 53, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.09 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 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 Prattsville, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Prattsville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 9.2 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Sheridan RAWSSDNA4
A remote fire weather station/9.5 mi away/269 ft/28 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW8415EW8415
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.8 mi away/313 ft/16 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
BentonSUZ
At an airfield/19.5 mi away/377 ft/80 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/27.5 mi away/456 ft/159 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Uapb Campus-PBS2083
At a soil climate station/30.3 mi away/232 ft/65 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
SheridanSHDA4
At a cooperative observer's station/9.2 mi away/269 ft/28 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Malvern 3.9 SEAR-HS-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.1 mi away/538 ft/241 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 19.5 mi from Prattsville, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 9 mi.
69.8 F with a dew point of 55.4 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.
Calm.
The full report of Benton, 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.