Friendship, Arkansas Weather
Friendship, Arkansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Friendship, Cleveland County.
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About Friendship, Arkansas
Friendship, Arkansas, unfolds under a sky that often wears the bruised hues of an approaching storm, a fitting backdrop for a landscape etched by the slow, persistent work of water. It lies 17.5 miles south of Pine Bluff, AR (from Pine Bluff, AR: bearing 188°T), and is situated 8.5 miles east of Rison. Here, the land rises and falls in gentle swells, not dramatic hills, but a terrain that suggests the deep, dark silt deposited by forgotten floods. Ancient oaks, their limbs gnarled like arthritic hands, stand as silent sentinels, their leaves rustling with secrets only the wind can decipher. The air itself carries a certain weight, thick with the scent of pine needles and the distant, earthy perfume of turned soil, a constant reminder of the fertile, yielding earth that defines this corner of Cleveland County. The story of Friendship is written not in grand monuments, but in the quiet persistence of its people and the land they have worked for generations. Its economy, once tied to the bounty of cotton fields that stretched to the horizon, now finds its pulse in the careful cultivation of timber and the enduring spirit of small-scale farming, where the harvest remains a deeply personal endeavor. There are no bustling avenues here, no clamor of industry; instead, the rhythm of life is set by the slow turning of the seasons and the quiet comings and goings of neighbors. The history of Friendship is a testament to resilience, a narrative of families who planted roots in this soil and found, in its quiet embrace, a place to call their own.
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| Location | Friendship, Cleveland County, Arkansas |
| Coordinates | 33.977045°N, 92.043474°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 71860, 71665, 72027, 71923 |
| Area Code | 870 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Friendship, Arkansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Friendship, 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 Friendship includes coordinates 33.977045°N, 92.043474°W, situated in Cleveland County. ZIP code 71860, 71665, 72027, 71923. Telephone area code: 870. 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.
