Yellow Bluff, Alabama Weather
Yellow Bluff, 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 Yellow Bluff, Wilcox County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Yellow Bluff. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Yellow Bluff is published on the Pine Hill Municipal Airport (K71A) page, 11 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. 4 airfields within reach of Yellow Bluff 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 Yellow Bluff: Camden Municipal Airport (K61A) 12 km · Freddie Jones Field (K70A) 41 km · Monroe County Aeroplex Airport (KMVC) 58 km
Conditions reported at K71A describe the airfield itself. Weather 11 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Yellow Bluff specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Yellow Bluff.
About Yellow Bluff, Alabama
Yellow Bluff unfolds onto the broad, languid sweep of the Alabama River, a place where the land gently curves to meet the water. It lies 68.2 miles west-south-west of Prattville, AL (from Prattville, AL: bearing 240°T), and is situated 7.1 miles east of Pine Hill. The terrain here is a soft, rolling embrace of fertile soil, yielding to stands of mature pines and oaks, their branches often draped with Spanish moss that catches the diffused sunlight. The air, particularly in the late afternoon, carries the mingled scents of damp earth, pine needles, and the faint, sweet perfume of unseen wildflowers, a testament to the rich, dark loam that defines this landscape. Creeks and bayous thread through the greenery, their still waters reflecting the sky like polished obsidian, and the silence is often broken only by the distant call of a bird or the rustle of unseen creatures in the undergrowth. The history of Yellow Bluff is as deep and meandering as the river it borders. Once a vital hub for cotton plantations, its fortunes have ebbed and flowed with the agricultural tides, the echoes of that past still discernible in the scattered remnants of old homesteads and the enduring agricultural character of the region. The local economy today, while less dependent on cotton, still draws heavily from the land, with farming and timber remaining significant, and the river itself continues to be a silent partner in the life of Yellow Bluff, offering a slow, steady artery for commerce and a constant source of natural beauty. It is a place where the past is not forgotten but lives alongside the present, a quiet persistence in the face of change.
Live animated radar for Yellow Bluff 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 | Yellow Bluff, Wilcox County, Alabama |
| Coordinates | 31.967649°N, 87.468052°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 36769 |
| Area Code | 334 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Yellow Bluff, Alabama Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Yellow Bluff, 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 Yellow Bluff includes coordinates 31.967649°N, 87.468052°W, situated in Wilcox County. ZIP code 36769. 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.
