At an airfield/10.9 mi away/253 ft/110 ft above here
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Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Smackover 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. Smackover is 55° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 48° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 89°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 70°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 35% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 11:00 PM in Smackover, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 25, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Arkadelphia-Caddo Valley (AR), 61 miles off.
Yesterday measured 46, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.07 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Smackover, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Smackover, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/10.9 mi away/253 ft/110 ft above here
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Beside a road/13.1 mi away/256 ft/113 ft above here
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Ouachita River at Camden07362000
At a river or reservoir gauge/17.1 mi away/78 ft/65 ft below here
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Citizen station GW7438GW7438
In a volunteer observer's own ground/27.6 mi away/140 ft/3 ft below here
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measured daily2 instruments
Norphlet 1.3 EAR-UN-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.6 mi away/130 ft/13 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ouachita River 7 SE Thatcher L&DCALA4
At a cooperative observer's station/14.4 mi away/95 ft/48 ft below here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.9 mi from Smackover, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 10:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
55.0 F with a dew point of 36.0 F, 49 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,300 ft up.
From the north (350 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 mph.
The full report of El Dorado/Goodwin, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Ouachita River 7 SE Thatcher L&D (CALA4), 14.4 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.