Lee Creek near Short07249985
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.8 mi away/430 ft/465 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Uniontown until 1 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Uniontown is 57° and overcast at 2 AM. The dew point is 56°, so the air feels a little humid. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 59° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 42° 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 84°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 65°. 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 10:50 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 17 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Uniontown, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 12, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Roland (OK), 10 miles off.
Yesterday measured 3, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.15 in in the last 24 hours, 1.20 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 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 Uniontown, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Uniontown, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Lee Creek near Short07249985
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.8 mi away/430 ft/465 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
I-540 Fort SmithARD21
Beside a road/12.6 mi away/413 ft/482 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station FW0798FW0798
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.9 mi away/449 ft/446 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/17.7 mi away/463 ft/432 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Uniontown 2.1 ESEAR-CF-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/825 ft/70 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Water PlantMTBA4
At a cooperative observer's station/17.1 mi away/794 ft/101 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 17.7 mi from Uniontown, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 2,100 ft; the ceiling is 2,100 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
65.0 F with a dew point of 57.0 F, 75 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,100 ft.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 23 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 25 mph.
The full report of Fort Smith Muni, 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.