Bucks, Alabama — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Bucks, Mobile County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Bucks. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Bucks is published on the Mark Reynolds/North Mobile County Airport (K15A) page, 12 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 Bucks 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 Bucks: Bay Minette Municipal Airport (K1R8) 25 km · Mobile Regional Airport (KMOB) 41 km · Mobile Downtown Airport (KBFM) 43 km · Roy Wilcox Airport (K5R1) 52 km · Jackson Municipal Airport (K4R3) 53 km
Conditions reported at K15A describe the airfield itself. Weather 12 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Bucks specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Bucks.
Bucks breathes the thick, humid air of the Gulf Coast, a place where the earth slumps and swells with a languid grace. It lies 21.9 miles north of Mobile, AL (from Mobile, AL: bearing 3°T), and is situated 8.2 miles north of Creola. Pine forests, tall and straight as sentinels, stand guard over a terrain that rolls into shallow depressions and then rises again, a gentle, green undulation under a sky that often hangs heavy with unspoken weather. The very soil here, a rich, dark loam, seems to hold the dampness of recent rains, giving the undergrowth a glossy sheen, and the air carries the faint, sweet scent of decay and new growth in equal measure. Sunlight, when it breaks through the canopy, falls in broad, diffuse shafts, illuminating the moss-draped branches and the occasional flash of a cardinal’s brilliant red. The history of Bucks is bound to the fertile lands and the waterways that have always dictated the pulse of this region. Once a place where timber was king, the echoes of sawmills and logging camps still linger in the quietude, a testament to a past built on the strength of the forest. Now, the economy of Bucks leans more towards agriculture, with fields of soybeans and corn stretching across the cleared land, their green rows marching towards the horizon under the vast, often cloud-streaked sky. The local character is one of quiet resilience, a steadfastness born from generations of working the land and adapting to the rhythms of the Southern seasons. Small, family-owned businesses form the backbone of daily life, their storefronts lining the main thoroughfares, offering a glimpse into the unhurried pace of existence in Bucks.
Live animated radar for Bucks 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 | Bucks, Mobile County, Alabama |
| Coordinates | 31.010458°N, 88.024166°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 36512 |
| Area Code | 251 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Bucks, Alabama, 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 Bucks includes coordinates 31.010458°N, 88.024166°W, situated in Mobile County. ZIP code 36512. Telephone area code: 251. 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.