Midway, Arkansas Weather
Midway, Arkansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Midway, Mississippi County.
Full aviation weather for Midway is published on the Arkansas International Airport (KBYH) page, 7 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 6 airfields within reach of Midway have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Midway: Manila Municipal Airport (KMXA) 15 km · Blytheville Municipal Airport (KHKA) 18 km · Steele Municipal Airport (KM12) 19 km · Kennett Memorial Airport (KTKX) 27 km · Osceola Municipal Airport (K7M4) 32 km
Conditions reported at KBYH describe the airfield itself. Weather 7 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Midway specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Midway.
About Midway, Arkansas
Midway lies low and wide under a sky that often stretches like a vast, pale canvas, painted with the bruised purples and soft oranges of an approaching dusk. It lies 24.4 miles north-west of Lauderdale, TN (from Lauderdale, TN: bearing 304°T), and is situated 7.0 miles west-north-west of Blytheville. The land here is a deep, fertile loam, the kind that remembers the slow patience of rivers, now channeled into straight, purposeful ditches that carve precise lines across the flat expanse. Fields of cotton, their white bolls like scattered pearls, give way to the emerald sprawl of rice paddies that shimmer under the Mississippi sun, reflecting the endless blue above. The air itself carries a certain weight, thick with the scent of damp earth and the distant hum of machinery, a subtle perfume that clings to the skin long after the sun has dipped below the horizon, leaving behind a hushed, watchful stillness. The history of Midway is written in the enduring agricultural spirit of Mississippi County, a place where the rhythm of planting and harvest has dictated life for generations. This particular bend in the landscape, once likely a more meandering part of the great Mississippi's embrace, has long been a crossroads, a place where goods and people passed through, leaving faint echoes in the soil. The economy here is deeply rooted in the earth, sustained by the bounty of its rich soil, primarily through the cultivation of rice and cotton, crops that demand both hard labor and a keen understanding of the seasons. While no grand monuments mark its past, the quiet persistence of the farming families, their lives intricately tied to the land's cycles, forms the true, enduring character of Midway.
Live animated radar for Midway and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Midway, Mississippi County, Arkansas |
| Coordinates | 35.98146°N, 90.023701°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 72394, 71728, 72568, 72651 |
| Area Code | 501, 479 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Midway, Arkansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Midway, Arkansas, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. 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 Midway includes coordinates 35.981460°N, 90.023701°W, situated in Mississippi County. ZIP code 72394, 71728, 72568, 72651. Telephone area code: 501, 479. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. 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.
