Drowning Creek, Oklahoma Weather
Drowning Creek, Oklahoma — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Drowning Creek, Delaware County.
Full aviation weather for Drowning Creek is published on the Grove Municipal Airport (KGMJ) page, 19 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 Drowning Creek 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 Drowning Creek: Crystal Lake Airport (K5M5) 40 km · Smith Field (KSLG) 46 km · Miami Municipal Airport (KMIO) 48 km · Northwest Arkansas National Airport (KXNA) 54 km · Neosho Hugh Robinson Airport (KEOS) 57 km
Conditions reported at KGMJ describe the airfield itself. Weather 19 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Drowning Creek specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Drowning Creek.
About Drowning Creek, Oklahoma
Drowning Creek lies in a fold of the Ozark foothills, where the land begins to sigh and ripple before the steeper climbs. It lies 33.0 miles west of Bella Vista, AR (from Bella Vista, AR: bearing 269°T), and is situated 9.9 miles south-south-west of Grove. Here, the sky seems to hold a deeper blue, a saturated hue that bleeds into the emerald of the oak and hickory forests blanketing the rolling terrain. The air, especially in the long, slow mornings, carries the damp, earthy scent of decaying leaves and the faint, clean perfume of pine, a fragrance that clings to the skin like dew. Ravines, worn deep by countless seasons of rain, carve their serpentine paths through the landscape, their rocky beds often dry in the summer's heat, but promising a torrent after a storm. The very character of Drowning Creek is etched into these contours, a wildness that softens at the edges where clearings hint at human habitation. The history of Drowning Creek is, in many ways, a story of resilience and adaptation, mirroring the very tenacity of the woods that surround it. Early settlers, drawn by the promise of fertile soil and abundant timber, established a life here, their fortunes tied to the land's bounty. The local economy, though modest, still draws sustenance from the earth, with small farms producing cattle and hay, and the forest yielding its timber. While no grand monuments punctuate the landscape, the quiet dignity of weathered barns and the enduring spirit of its people form a distinct character. The creek itself, though it bears a name that whispers of hardship, is more often a source of quiet contemplation, its gentle flow a counterpoint to the more dramatic pronouncements of the surrounding hills, and on a still evening, the low hum of cicadas provides a constant, ancient soundtrack to the life of Drowning Creek.
Live animated radar for Drowning Creek 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.
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| Location | Drowning Creek, Delaware County, Oklahoma |
| Coordinates | 36.473377°N, 94.867162°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 74346, 74342 |
| Area Code | 918 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Drowning Creek, Oklahoma Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Drowning Creek, Oklahoma, 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 Drowning Creek includes coordinates 36.473377°N, 94.867162°W, situated in Delaware County. ZIP code 74346, 74342. Telephone area code: 918. 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.
