Hwy. 21 & Hwy 16 Edwards Junctio AR USARD26
Beside a road/7.5 mi away/2,221 ft/326 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Wayton is 59° and overcast at 1 AM. The dew point is 56°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 47° by 8 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 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:36 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:44 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Wayton, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Springdale (Springdale-Fayetteville-Bentonville) (AR), 51 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
0.08 in in the last 24 hours, 2.10 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Wayton, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Wayton, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Hwy. 21 & Hwy 16 Edwards Junctio AR USARD26
Beside a road/7.5 mi away/2,221 ft/326 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Buffalo River near Boxley07055646
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.2 mi away/1,142 ft/753 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/24.4 mi away/1,365 ft/530 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW1117GW1117
In a volunteer observer's own ground/36.8 mi away/1,342 ft/553 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Jasper 13.4 SWAR-NW-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.1 mi away/2,229 ft/334 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
JasperJASA4
At a cooperative observer's station/8.0 mi away/902 ft/993 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 24.4 mi from Wayton, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,100 ft; the ceiling is 1,100 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
61.0 F with a dew point of 56.0 F, 84 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,100 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 10 mph, gusting 20 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 25 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.