Hwy. 82 - Ouachita River Bridge AR USARD02
Beside a road/6.1 mi away/75 ft/71 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for West Crossett until 8 PM today. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. West Crossett is 68° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 70° by 11 AM. Tonight falls to about 48° 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. Air quality is moderate (index 53): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 89°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 69°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:34 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:47 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 22 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in West Crossett, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 53, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Monroe (LA), 44 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 56, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 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 West Crossett, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest West Crossett, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.8 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Hwy. 82 - Ouachita River Bridge AR USARD02
Beside a road/6.1 mi away/75 ft/71 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Locust Ridge RAWSLRRA4
A remote fire weather station/11.1 mi away/108 ft/38 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
MonticelloLLQ
At an airfield/37.2 mi away/269 ft/123 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Crossett 0.9 SAR-AS-14
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.8 mi away/174 ft/28 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Crossett 2SSE CoopCRSA4
At a cooperative observer's station/3.7 mi away/164 ft/18 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 37.2 mi from West Crossett, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
74.0 F with a dew point of 58.0 F, 57 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,700 ft up.
From the west southwest (250 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Monticello, 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.