Arab, Alabama Weather
Arab, Alabama — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Arab, Marshall County.
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Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Arab.
About Arab, Alabama
Arab is a place where the red earth exhales a humid breath, settling over rolling hills that ripple towards the horizon. It lies 28.9 miles south of Huntsville, AL (from Huntsville, AL: bearing 170°T), and is situated 7.7 miles east-north-east of Baileyton. The landscape here is a study in greens and browns, a mosaic of dense forests giving way to patchwork fields where cotton plants, their bolls white and ready, stand like patient sentinels. The air itself seems to possess a gentle weight, thick with the scent of pine needles and the distant hum of cicadas, a sound that becomes the ambient music of summer afternoons. Sunlight, when it breaks through the canopy, doesn't so much dapple as it pools, creating pools of liquid gold on the forest floor, a quiet testament to the slow, persistent work of light and shadow. The character of Arab is etched in this enduring, verdant embrace. The history of Arab is tied to the rich agricultural soil and the resilient spirit of its people, who have coaxed a living from these lands for generations. While the precise origins of its name remain a subject of local lore, the town’s development reflects the broader patterns of rural Alabama, its economy once deeply rooted in farming, particularly cotton and corn. Today, that agricultural heritage still lends a particular cadence to life, though the local economy has diversified to include manufacturing and small businesses, creating a steady, unhurried pulse. Notable landmarks are fewer than grand pronouncements, more like quiet acknowledgements of time and place – a weathered general store, a sturdy church steeple rising above the trees – each holding a silent narrative of the lives lived and the dreams pursued within Arab's gentle, rolling embrace.
Live animated radar for Arab and surroundings — RainViewer.
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| Location | Arab, Marshall County, Alabama |
| Coordinates | 34.31815°N, 86.495822°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 35016 |
| Area Code | 205, 256 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Arab, Alabama Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Arab, Alabama, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Arab includes coordinates 34.318150°N, 86.495822°W, situated in Marshall County. ZIP code 35016. Telephone area code: 205, 256. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
