Hwy 71 Y CityARD13
Beside a road/9.3 mi away/679 ft/2 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Tomorrow is 25 degrees cooler: a high of 64° after 89° today.
Now. Waldron is 69° and light rain at 11 PM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the northwest at 7 mph, gusting to 19 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 50° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 84°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 64°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% 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 day is 11 hours 21 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Waldron, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Roland (OK), 47 miles off.
Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.02 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 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 Waldron, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Waldron, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Hwy 71 Y CityARD13
Beside a road/9.3 mi away/679 ft/2 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Petit Jean River near Booneville07258500
At a river or reservoir gauge/17.5 mi away/424 ft/253 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/24.9 mi away/1,079 ft/402 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW7016GW7016
In a volunteer observer's own ground/32.4 mi away/484 ft/193 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Waldron 1.0 SSEAR-SC-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/779 ft/102 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WaldronWDNA4
At a cooperative observer's station/5.7 mi away/682 ft/5 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 24.9 mi from Waldron, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 2,200 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
73.0 F with a dew point of 66.0 F, 79 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,600 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,200 ft.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 10 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 21 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.