I-40 & Arkansas St LineI40ST328
Beside a road/9.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Short is 55° and mostly cloudy at 5 AM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 28 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 61° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 42° 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 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 86°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 66°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:41 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:50 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 5:00 AM in Short, Oklahoma.
Air quality
Index 20, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Roland (OK), 8 miles off.
Yesterday measured 30, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.10 in in the last 24 hours, 1.30 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Short, OklahomaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Short, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 9.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I-40 & Arkansas St LineI40ST328
Beside a road/9.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW6761EW6761
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.7 mi away/544 ft/132 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/19.5 mi away/528 ft/148 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Arkansas River 8 S Rs Kerr L&D 15KERO2
At a river or reservoir gauge/22.0 mi away/433 ft/243 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily1 instrument
Roland 1.9 NWOK-SQ-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.8 mi away/837 ft/161 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 19.5 mi from Short, Oklahoma. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 5:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 11,000 ft; the ceiling is 11,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
59.0 F with a dew point of 48.2 F, 67 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 11,000 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 16 mph, gusting 24 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 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.