Melbourne42A
At an airfield/5.9 mi away/741 ft/49 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Now. Violet Hill is 70° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 51° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 42° 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 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 62°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:30 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:37 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Violet Hill, Arkansas.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.30 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. 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 Violet Hill, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Violet Hill, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.8 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Melbourne42A
At an airfield/5.9 mi away/741 ft/49 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW0807FW0807
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.1 mi away/681 ft/109 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Evening Shade-RAWSESDA4
A remote fire weather station/15.6 mi away/489 ft/301 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Batesville 8 WNW23904
At a climate reference station/23.4 mi away/455 ft/335 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Hwy 5 South East Of Mt. ViewARD25
Beside a road/26.1 mi away/1,109 ft/319 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Violet Hill 3.4 SSWAR-IZ-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.8 mi away/775 ft/15 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Evening Shade 1 NNEEVSA4
At a cooperative observer's station/13.6 mi away/459 ft/331 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 5.9 mi from Violet Hill, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 3,800 ft, scattered at 4,500 ft, overcast at 9,000 ft; the ceiling is 9,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
75.2 F with a dew point of 66.2 F, 74 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,800 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 10 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 24 mph.
The full report of Melbourne, 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.