Historical weather data, all-time temperature records, and monthly climate averages for Forrest City, AR. Explore typical weather conditions by week for trip planning, and see how today compares to the historical record.
April 4th in Forrest City typically feels like a proper spring day, with average highs of 71° and lows of 47°. The date has a wide range in the record books though — it's reached as warm as 88° back in 1918 and dropped as cold as 25° in 1987. There's about a 1-in-3 chance of rain today, so keep an umbrella handy.
Forrest City plays in extremes — the thermometer has swung from a brutal -10° in January 1930 all the way up to 110° in August 1934, a 120-degree spread over the station's history. A single storm dropped 6.7 inches of rain on September 11, 1965, and a December blizzard in 1963 buried the area under 10 inches of snow.
Summers here are long and serious, with average highs climbing to 92° in mid-July and staying in the upper 80s through September. Winters are mild but not toothless — January highs average just 49°, and the wettest stretch of the year actually falls during the holidays, with late December averaging over an inch of precipitation per week. If you're chasing comfortable weather, April and October both offer highs in the 70s.