Friendship, Oklahoma Weather
Friendship, Oklahoma — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Friendship, Jackson County.
Full aviation weather for Friendship is published on the Altus Air Force Base (KLTS) page, 5 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 Friendship 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 Friendship: Altus Quartz Mountain Regional Airport (KAXS) 10 km · Tipton Municipal Airport (K1O8) 27 km · Scott Field (K2K4) 35 km · Hobart Regional Airport (KHBR) 37 km · Frederick Regional Airport (KFDR) 44 km
Conditions reported at KLTS describe the airfield itself. Weather 5 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Friendship specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Friendship.
About Friendship, Oklahoma
Friendship lies across a land of subtle swells and vast, indifferent horizons. It lies 48.0 miles west of Lawton, OK (from Lawton, OK: bearing 277°T), and is situated 7.2 miles north-east of Altus. The earth here is a rich ochre, a color that deepens to a bruised plum in the fading light, and the sky, a boundless canvas, often stretches from one dusty edge of the world to the other, a pale, washed-out blue under the high Oklahoma sun. Sparse, hardy grasses cling to the ground, their dry stalks whispering secrets on the wind, and the occasional mesquite or scrub oak offers a gnarled, stoic silhouette against the immensity. The air, when it finally begins to cool after a long day, carries the scent of dry earth and something wild, a faint, untamed perfume that speaks of open spaces and a quiet endurance. This is a place where the past is not so much buried as it is weathered into the very texture of the land, a slow accumulation of lives lived and dreams deferred. Friendship’s history is tied to the land’s bounty, to the grain that ripens under the relentless sun and the cattle that graze the sparse pastures. The economy here has always been a matter of patient cultivation and honest labor, a testament to the resilience of those who chose to make their lives in this quiet corner of Jackson County. Though whispers of the wider world may occasionally drift in on the breeze, Friendship holds its own counsel, a small settlement that has learned to draw its strength from the deep, unyielding heart of the earth.
Live animated radar for Friendship 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 | Friendship, Jackson County, Oklahoma |
| Coordinates | 34.695901°N, 99.228973°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 73521 |
| Area Code | 405 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Friendship, Oklahoma Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Friendship, 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 Friendship includes coordinates 34.695901°N, 99.228973°W, situated in Jackson County. ZIP code 73521. Telephone area code: 405. 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.
