Salt Fork Arkansas River nr Alva07148400
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.5 mi away/1,293 ft/74 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Alva until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Alva is 36° and clear at 6 AM. The dew point is 34°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the northwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 66° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° 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 85°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 70°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:56 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 12:01 AM after midnight. 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 13 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 AM in Alva, Oklahoma.
Air quality
Index 7, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Woodward (OK), 42 miles off.
Highest 60, moderate, Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 26, good.
No smoke near the ground through Mon 1 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.75 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Mon 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Sun 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Alva, OklahomaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 4 instruments nearest Alva, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Salt Fork Arkansas River nr Alva07148400
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.5 mi away/1,293 ft/74 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/1.8 mi away/1,473 ft/106 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Alva 0.3 NWOK-WD-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/1,371 ft/4 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
AlvaALVO2
At a cooperative observer's station/1.1 mi away/1,325 ft/42 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 1.8 mi from Alva, Oklahoma. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 6:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
35.6 F with a dew point of 33.8 F, 93 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Alva Rgnl Airport, 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.