Rover, Arkansas Weather
Rover, Arkansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Rover, Yell County.
Full aviation weather for Rover is published on the Danville Municipal Airport (K32A) page, 16 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. 5 airfields within reach of Rover 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 Rover: Russellville Regional Airport (KRUE) 45 km · Petit Jean Park Airport (KMPJ) 50 km · Clarksville Municipal Airport (KH35) 58 km · Memorial Field Airport (KHOT) 59 km
Conditions reported at K32A describe the airfield itself. Weather 16 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Rover specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Rover.
About Rover, Arkansas
Rover lies nestled in a shallow valley where the land begins its slow, deliberate rise toward the Ouachita Mountains. It lies 27.6 miles south-west of Russellville, AR (from Russellville, AR: bearing 214°T), and is situated 7.5 miles south of Danville. The terrain here is a study in emerald and ochre, a place where the verdant sprawl of deciduous forest, thick with oak and hickory, yields to the sun-baked hues of exposed earth. Creeks, mere whispers in the dry summer months, swell into determined currents after the rains, their banks often a riot of wild rhododendron and the occasional, hardy pine. The air itself carries a particular weight, a humid embrace that softens the edges of the day, particularly when the sun dips low, casting long, painterly shadows that stretch and distort the familiar contours of the hills. This is a place where the legacy of timber and agriculture still breathes, though the scent of pine sawmills has largely faded, replaced by the more subtle aroma of ripening corn and the distant hum of tractors. Rover’s history is etched not in grand monuments, but in the enduring practicality of its people, descendants of those who cleared the land and coaxed sustenance from its often-stubborn soil. The local economy, once dependent on the bounty of the surrounding forests and fields, now finds a quieter footing, a resilient rhythm that accommodates the gentle ebb and flow of small-town life. Peculiarities here are not advertised; they are lived, such as the way the light filters through the leaves on a humid afternoon, turning the ordinary into something almost luminous, or the quiet satisfaction of a successful harvest under a sky that seems to hold its breath.
Live animated radar for Rover 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 | Rover, Yell County, Arkansas |
| Coordinates | 34.946481°N, 93.405465°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 72860 |
| Area Code | 479 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Rover, Arkansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Rover, 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 Rover includes coordinates 34.946481°N, 93.405465°W, situated in Yell County. ZIP code 72860. Telephone area code: 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.
