Elaine, Arkansas Weather
Elaine, Arkansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Elaine, Phillips County.
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About Elaine, Arkansas
Elaine rests in the lowlands of Phillips County, a place where the land itself seems to sigh with the humidity of the Mississippi Delta. It lies 63.2 miles north of Greenville, MS (from Greenville, MS: bearing 11°T), and is situated 17.7 miles west-north-west of Clarksdale. The terrain here is flat, almost impossibly so, stretching out under a vast sky that can shift from a pale, washed-out blue to a bruised, stormy gray with startling speed. Fields of cotton, their bolls still white promises against the deep green stalks, dominate the immediate landscape, broken only by the occasional stand of somber cypress trees dripping Spanish moss from their gnarled branches. The air, especially as dusk begins to settle, carries the rich, earthy scent of damp soil and the faint, sweet perfume of distant honeysuckle, a fragrance that clings to everything. The roads, often unpaved and rutted, wind their way between these agricultural expanses, leading to clusters of houses that seem to have grown organically from the rich, dark earth. The history of Elaine is deeply intertwined with the cultivation of the land, particularly cotton, a crop that shaped its economy and, in more turbulent times, its social fabric. The echoes of sharecropping and the enduring legacy of agricultural labor are palpable in the quiet persistence of its people. While specific industries have ebbed and flowed, the enduring character of Elaine remains tied to the rhythm of the planting and harvesting seasons. The nearby waterways, tributaries of the mighty Mississippi, have always been both a source of life and a conduit for commerce, though their presence is more felt in the pervasive moisture and the occasional glint of sunlight on a distant channel than in grand promenades. The distinctive quietude of Elaine is not an emptiness, but a fullness of lived experience, where the past is a constant, if unspoken, companion to the present.
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| Location | Elaine, Phillips County, Arkansas |
| Coordinates | 34.308437°N, 90.852053°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 72333, 72389 |
| Area Code | 501 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Elaine, Arkansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Elaine, Arkansas, 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 Elaine includes coordinates 34.308437°N, 90.852053°W, situated in Phillips County. ZIP code 72333, 72389. Telephone area code: 501. 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.
