Beside a road/3.9 mi away/869 ft/38 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Bentonville until 9 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 11 degrees cooler: a high of 54° after 65° today.
Now. Bentonville is 55° and overcast at 3 PM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northwest at 7 mph, gusting to 19 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:55 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:53 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. 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 day is 11 hours 12 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 PM in Bentonville, Ohio.
Air quality
Index 25, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 PM from its reporting area, Cincinnati (OH), 55 miles off.
Highest 55, moderate, Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 52, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.25 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sun 8 AM, lowest 7 miles Fri 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Bentonville, OhioReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Bentonville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beside a road/3.9 mi away/869 ft/38 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Friendship - Shawnee RAWSSHRO1
A remote fire weather station/22.7 mi away/1,181 ft/274 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.6 mi away/941 ft/34 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
BataviaI69
At an airfield/39.4 mi away/828 ft/79 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Manchester 0.2 WOH-AD-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.0 mi away/544 ft/363 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Machester 5ENEMNCO1
At a cooperative observer's station/5.8 mi away/538 ft/369 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 39.4 mi from Bentonville, Ohio. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:36 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 1,300 ft, broken at 2,000 ft, overcast at 2,800 ft; the ceiling is 1,300 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
53.2 F with a dew point of 51.0 F, 92 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,300 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 24 mph.
The full report of Batavia, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.