I-30 Red RiverARD04
Beside a road/11.3 mi away/266 ft/160 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 Saratoga 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. Saratoga is 66° and mostly cloudy at 4 AM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 57° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° 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.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 88°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 69°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:41 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:53 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 21 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Saratoga, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 24, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Arkadelphia-Caddo Valley (AR), 55 miles off.
Yesterday measured 46, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.01 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
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The 6 instruments nearest Saratoga, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I-30 Red RiverARD04
Beside a road/11.3 mi away/266 ft/160 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Red River at Index07337000
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.8 mi away/247 ft/179 ft below here
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At an airfield/21.1 mi away/390 ft/36 ft below here
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In a volunteer observer's own ground/23.4 mi away/377 ft/49 ft below here
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measured daily2 instruments
Millwood DamMWOA4
At a dam/7.1 mi away/341 ft/85 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Ashdown 6.7 ENEAR-LR-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.1 mi away/321 ft/105 ft below here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 21.1 mi from Saratoga, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,200 ft; the ceiling is 2,200 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
70.0 F with a dew point of 66.0 F, 87 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,200 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 9 mph: force 3, a gentle 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.