Blue River near Blue07332500
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.5 mi away/497 ft/114 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Bennington is 54° and clear at 10 AM. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northeast at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 66° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 45° by 5 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 Friday, near 86°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 71°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:48 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 11:59 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 18 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 AM in Bennington, Oklahoma.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 AM from its reporting area, McAlester (OK), 66 miles off.
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 25, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Mon 7 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.12 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 9 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Mon 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Bennington, OklahomaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 4 instruments nearest Bennington, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 11.5 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Blue River near Blue07332500
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.5 mi away/497 ft/114 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
DurantDUA
At an airfield/20.7 mi away/699 ft/88 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Caddo 4.1 ESEOK-BR-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.9 mi away/670 ft/59 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Mcgee Creek DamMGDO2
At a dam/23.5 mi away/689 ft/78 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 20.7 mi from Bennington, Oklahoma. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 9:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
51.8 F with a dew point of 42.8 F, 71 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up.
From the north northeast (20 degrees) at 12 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 16 mph.
The full report of Durant, 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.