Buffalo River at Pruitt07055680
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.5 mi away/767 ft/310 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Valley Springs is 50° and partly cloudy at 9 AM. With the wind it feels like 45°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° 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 6, 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 63°. 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 10:42 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 16 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 AM in Valley Springs, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 26, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Springdale (Springdale-Fayetteville-Bentonville) (AR), 63 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 29, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, 1.45 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Valley Springs, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Valley Springs, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Buffalo River at Pruitt07055680
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.5 mi away/767 ft/310 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/11.7 mi away/1,365 ft/288 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW4198GW4198
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.5 mi away/889 ft/188 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Hwy 65 Cricket CreekARD32
Beside a road/25.0 mi away/1,165 ft/88 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Everton 4.4 WSWAR-BN-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/1,265 ft/188 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Harrison ArHARA4
At a cooperative observer's station/8.7 mi away/1,148 ft/71 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 11.7 mi from Valley Springs, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 8:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
52.0 F with a dew point of 37.0 F, 56 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,400 ft up.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 17 mph, gusting 29 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 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.