Buffalo River near St. Joe07056000
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.7 mi away/561 ft/219 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. St. Joe is 56° and overcast at 3 AM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 9 mph, gusting to 20 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 59° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° by 7 AM, with some cloud. 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.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 83°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 64°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:34 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:41 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 day is 11 hours 16 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in St. Joe, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 13, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Springdale (Springdale-Fayetteville-Bentonville) (AR), 74 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 1.00 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 Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over St. Joe, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest St. Joe, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Buffalo River near St. Joe07056000
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.7 mi away/561 ft/219 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW4198GW4198
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.7 mi away/889 ft/109 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/25.0 mi away/1,365 ft/585 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Hwy. 21 & Hwy 16 Edwards Junctio AR USARD26
Beside a road/33.3 mi away/2,221 ft/1,441 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
St. Joe 2.7 WNWAR-SR-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/1,263 ft/483 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Buffalo @ GilbertGLBA4
At a cooperative observer's station/6.0 mi away/630 ft/150 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 25.0 mi from St. Joe, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:31 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 1,200 ft, broken at 1,700 ft, overcast at 2,700 ft; the ceiling is 1,700 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
55.0 F with a dew point of 50.0 F, 83 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,200 ft.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 12 mph, gusting 26 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 mph.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Buffalo @ Gilbert (GLBA4), 6.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. 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.