Sweet Water, Alabama Weather
Sweet Water, 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 Sweet Water, Marengo County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Sweet Water. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Sweet Water is published on the Freddie Jones Field (K70A) page, 24 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. 5 airfields within reach of Sweet Water 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 Sweet Water: Butler-Choctaw County Airport (K09A) 25 km · Pine Hill Municipal Airport (K71A) 30 km · Demopolis Municipal Airport (KDYA) 42 km · Camden Municipal Airport (K61A) 52 km
Conditions reported at K70A describe the airfield itself. Weather 24 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Sweet Water specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Sweet Water.
About Sweet Water, Alabama
Sweet Water slumbers in the rolling hills of Marengo County, a landscape painted in the muted greens of pine and the earthy browns of fertile soil. It lies 52.2 miles east-south-east of Meridian, MS (from Meridian, MS: bearing 110°T), and is situated 14.9 miles north-north-west of Thomasville. The air here, especially as the sun begins its slow descent, carries a humid warmth, thick with the scent of damp earth and the distant hum of cicadas. Drainage ditches, their edges softened by encroaching grasses, snake through the terrain, hinting at the slow, deliberate flow of water that gives the place its name, a gentle reminder of the creek that whispers through the surrounding woodlands. The sky above, vast and often a pale, washed-out blue, offers a sense of quiet spaciousness, broken only by the occasional flight of a hawk circling lazily on unseen currents. The history of Sweet Water is etched not in grand monuments, but in the quiet perseverance of its people and the enduring rhythm of its agricultural roots. For generations, the fertile land has yielded its bounty, supporting a local economy that has long leaned on the cultivation of cotton and timber, industries that shaped the very character of the settlement. While the echoes of steamboats on the Tombigbee River, a vital artery in its early days, have faded, the spirit of resourceful enterprise remains, a subtle undercurrent in the daily lives of its residents. Sweet Water, though small, holds within its quiet embrace the stories of those who tilled the soil and shaped the forests, a testament to the enduring appeal of a life lived in close communion with the land.
Live animated radar for Sweet Water 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 | Sweet Water, Marengo County, Alabama |
| Coordinates | 32.097371°N, 87.86751°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 36782 |
| Area Code | 334 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Sweet Water, Alabama Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Sweet Water, 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 Sweet Water includes coordinates 32.097371°N, 87.867510°W, situated in Marengo County. ZIP code 36782. Telephone area code: 334. 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.
