Mount Olive, Alabama Weather
Mount Olive, 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 Mount Olive, Coosa County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Mount Olive. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Mount Olive is published on the Merkel Field Sylacauga Municipal Airport (KSCD) page, 20 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. 3 airfields within reach of Mount Olive 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 Mount Olive: St Clair County Airport (KPLR) 55 km · Talladega Municipal Airport (KASN) 56 km
Conditions reported at KSCD describe the airfield itself. Weather 20 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Mount Olive specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Mount Olive.
About Mount Olive, Alabama
Mount Olive emerges from the rolling terrain of central Alabama with a quiet dignity, its landscape characterized by a gentle rise and fall of verdant hills that cradle pockets of dense woodland. It lies 41.2 miles east-south-east of Alabaster, AL (from Alabaster, AL: bearing 107°T), and is situated 9.8 miles south-east of Sylacauga. The air here, especially in the late afternoon, carries the faint, sweet scent of pine and damp earth, a subtle perfume that clings to the broad-leafed oaks and slender hickories. Fields of late summer corn, their stalks a golden-brown, stretch towards the horizon, interspersed with pastures where cattle graze lazily under a sky that often softens to a hazy, pearlescent hue as day gives way to evening. The roads, some paved and smooth, others a dusty red ribbon winding through the countryside, suggest a place where journeys are measured not in speed, but in the steady turning of wheels. The history of Mount Olive is deeply rooted in the land, a story told through its agricultural past and the enduring spirit of its people. For generations, the rich soil has sustained families, with cotton and later soybeans forming the backbone of its local economy, their cultivation leaving a subtle imprint on the very character of the place. While larger industries have largely bypassed this particular stretch of Coosa County, a resilient self-sufficiency persists, evident in the small, independent businesses and the quiet camaraderie that binds the community. The echoes of earlier times can be felt in the weathered barns and the sturdy, unpretentious homes that dot the landscape, each a silent witness to the ebb and flow of life in Mount Olive.
Live animated radar for Mount Olive 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 | Mount Olive, Coosa County, Alabama |
| Coordinates | 33.069564°N, 86.13497°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 36276, 35079, 35452, 35117 |
| Area Code | 256, 205 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Mount Olive, Alabama Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Mount Olive, 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 Mount Olive includes coordinates 33.069564°N, 86.134970°W, situated in Coosa County. ZIP code 36276, 35079, 35452, 35117. Telephone area code: 256, 205. 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.
