I-40 & ChecotahI40ST259
Beside a road/7.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Hitchita is 50° and mostly clear at 9 AM. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 16 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 60° by 3 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 84°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 62°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:46 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:55 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 17 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 AM in Hitchita, Oklahoma.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, McAlester (OK), 41 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 27, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.64 in in the last 24 hours, 2.50 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Hitchita, OklahomaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Hitchita, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I-40 & ChecotahI40ST259
Beside a road/7.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/15.2 mi away/722 ft/65 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Deep Fork near Beggs07243500
At a river or reservoir gauge/20.7 mi away/633 ft/24 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station DW9813DW9813
In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.2 mi away/545 ft/112 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily1 instrument
Okmulgee 0.5 EOK-OM-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.3 mi away/717 ft/60 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 15.2 mi from Hitchita, Oklahoma. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 8:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
50.4 F with a dew point of 35.4 F, 56 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,400 ft up.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 13 mph, gusting 21 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 33 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.