Mount Pleasant, Arkansas Weather
Mount Pleasant, Arkansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Mount Pleasant, Ashley County.
Full aviation weather for Mount Pleasant is published on the Z M Jack Stell Field (KCRT) page, 26 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 Mount Pleasant 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 Mount Pleasant: Lake Village Municipal Airport (KM32) 30 km · Monticello Municipal Ellis Field (KLLQ) 45 km · McGehee Municipal Airport (K7M1) 47 km · Kelly Airport (K9M6) 49 km · Warren Municipal Airport (K3M9) 56 km
Conditions reported at KCRT describe the airfield itself. Weather 26 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Mount Pleasant specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Mount Pleasant.
About Mount Pleasant, Arkansas
Mount Pleasant lies low and wide, a gentle sprawl under a sky that often hangs thick and humid. It lies 33.8 miles west-south-west of Greenville, MS (from Greenville, MS: bearing 251°T), and is situated 10.6 miles east of Hamburg. The land here, a fertile cradle of loamy earth, rolls with the soft, persistent undulation of ancient riverbeds, a landscape that yields generously to the plow and the hoe. Towering pines, their needles whispering secrets in the warm breeze, punctuate the fields of cotton and soybeans, their white bolls like scattered pearls against the deep green. The air itself carries a certain weight, a palpable presence of sun-baked soil and the distant hum of insects, a slow, steady breath drawn deep from the heart of the Delta. The history of Mount Pleasant is written in the broad, slow sweep of the Ashley River, a waterway that once pulsed with the lifeblood of commerce and now meanders with a quieter, more introspective grace. Early settlers, drawn by the rich alluvial soil, established a life here rooted in agriculture, primarily cotton, a legacy that continues to shape the local economy, though diversification into timber and other ventures has taken hold. The faint scent of woodsmoke often drifts from the few scattered homesteads, a reminder of simpler times, while the occasional rumble of a truck on a distant road speaks to the ongoing, unhurried rhythm of life in Mount Pleasant, a place where the past and present mingle like the soft evening light on the water.
Live animated radar for Mount Pleasant 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 | Mount Pleasant, Ashley County, Arkansas |
| Coordinates | 33.248453°N, 91.615124°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 71854, 71860, 72561 |
| Area Code | 870, 501 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Mount Pleasant, Arkansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Mount Pleasant, 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 Mount Pleasant includes coordinates 33.248453°N, 91.615124°W, situated in Ashley County. ZIP code 71854, 71860, 72561. Telephone area code: 870, 501. 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.
