Cimarron River near Ripley07161450
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.2 mi away/796 ft/64 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Flood Warning is in force for Ripley until 11:12 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 16 degrees cooler: a high of 59° after 75° today.
Now. Ripley is 58° and mostly cloudy at 11 PM. The dew point is 53°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 9 mph, gusting to 20 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 46° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 36°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Ripley, Oklahoma.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Oklahoma City (OK), 47 miles off.
Highest 80, moderate, Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
1.70 in in the last 24 hours, 3.90 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 8 AM.
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The 7 instruments nearest Ripley, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.3 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Cimarron River near Ripley07161450
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.2 mi away/796 ft/64 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
CushingCUH
At an airfield/8.7 mi away/915 ft/55 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW7874GW7874
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.5 mi away/867 ft/7 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Stillwater 2 W53926
At a climate reference station/12.2 mi away/890 ft/30 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
I-35 & Stillwater35ST165
Beside a road/25.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Ripley 1.3 NOK-PY-33
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/923 ft/63 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
PerkinsPRNO2
At a cooperative observer's station/7.9 mi away/902 ft/42 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.7 mi from Ripley, Oklahoma. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,400 ft, broken at 5,000 ft, overcast at 8,500 ft; the ceiling is 2,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
57.6 F with a dew point of 55.0 F, 91 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 600 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,400 ft.
Calm.
The full report of Cushing, 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.