Red River at Index07337000
At a river or reservoir gauge/14.3 mi away/247 ft/67 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Wilton until 1 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Wilton is 71° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the northwest at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 58° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° 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 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
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 6:42 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:54 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 21 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Wilton, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 25, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Arkadelphia-Caddo Valley (AR), 67 miles off.
Yesterday measured 26, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.01 in over 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 Wilton, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Wilton, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Red River at Index07337000
At a river or reservoir gauge/14.3 mi away/247 ft/67 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
I-30 Red RiverARD04
Beside a road/21.2 mi away/266 ft/48 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/21.7 mi away/390 ft/76 ft above here
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In a volunteer observer's own ground/23.8 mi away/377 ft/63 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Ashdown 6.7 ENEAR-LR-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.4 mi away/321 ft/7 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ashdown 4SSEASHA4
At a cooperative observer's station/8.7 mi away/344 ft/30 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 21.7 mi from Wilton, 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.
75.0 F with a dew point of 65.0 F, 71 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,300 ft up.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 9 mph, gusting 21 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.