Saline River near Sheridan07363200
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.6 mi away/153 ft/126 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Princeton, Arkansas
Community in Dallas County, ArkansasSpecial Weather Statement, in full
A cold frontal passage across the state early Friday will promote strong north to northwest winds 15-20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph through the afternoon hours. Very dry fuels combined with afternoon minimum RH's dipping below 40 percent will promote an elevated fire weather concern. Please heed any burn bans by refraining from any outdoor burning.
66°
68°/56°
Clear·
Feels like 66°·Light air 2 mph WNW
Alert. A Special Weather Statement is in force for Princeton until 8 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Princeton is 66° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Light air from the west-northwest at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 56° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 44° 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.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 87°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 67°. 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 10:47 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.
0UV Low
25Air quality
84%Humidity
9%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
66feels66
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
6856
13mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6743
UV 8
Sun
Oct 18
7138
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7641
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
8044
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8446
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
8748
overcast
66°
68°56°
67°43°
71°38°
76°41°
80°44°
84°46°
87°48°
As of 1:00 AM in Princeton, Arkansas.
Air quality
The air at Princeton
Index 25, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Arkadelphia-Caddo Valley (AR), 31 miles off.
25Good
- Ozone25Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 26, good.
GoodModerate
- 26YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Princeton
None in the last 24 hours; 0.07 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.07in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Princeton, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Princeton, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Princeton, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 10.7 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Rank162of 678
Hwy 167 ThorntonARD05
Beside a road/15.9 mi away/361 ft/82 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW5898GW5898
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.2 mi away/271 ft/8 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
CamdenCDH
At an airfield/26.0 mi away/130 ft/149 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Uapb Campus-PBS2083
At a soil climate station/38.9 mi away/232 ft/47 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Fordyce 6.6 NNWAR-DL-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.7 mi away/276 ft/3 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
FordyceFRDA4
At a cooperative observer's station/17.1 mi away/285 ft/6 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Camden, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 26.0 mi from Princeton, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
65.0 F with a dew point of 59.0 F, 81 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,400 ft up.
The wind
Calm.
The full report of Camden, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Fordyce (FRDA4), 17.1 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
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