Viola, Delaware Weather
Viola, Delaware — 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 Viola, Kent County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Viola. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Viola is published on the Dover Civil Air Terminal/Dover Air Force Base (KDOV) page, 13 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 Viola 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 Viola: Chandelle Airport (K0N4) 19 km · Delaware Airpark (K33N) 20 km · Summit Airport (KEVY) 55 km · Millville Municipal Airport (KMIV) 56 km · Bucks Airport (K00N) 58 km
Conditions reported at KDOV describe the airfield itself. Weather 13 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Viola specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Viola.
About Viola, Delaware
Viola rests in the gentle embrace of Delaware's coastal plain, a landscape where broad fields of ripening corn and soybeans stretch towards a horizon softened by the humid air. It lies 8.4 miles south-south-west of Dover, DE (from Dover, DE: bearing 198°T), and is situated 5.1 miles south-west of Rising Sun-Lebanon. The terrain, a subtle undulation rather than dramatic hills, lends itself to the quiet persistence of agriculture, with drainage ditches mirroring the slow, deliberate flow of unseen waterways. Sunlight here has a particular quality, especially in the late afternoon, where it seems to thicken, painting the sky in hues of apricot and rose, a fleeting beauty before the deeper indigo of twilight settles over the scattered farmsteads and the heart of Viola itself. The air, often carrying the faint, earthy scent of turned soil and distant woodsmoke, speaks of a life lived in concert with the seasons. The history of Viola is as much about the land as it is about the people who have worked it. This part of Kent County has long been a breadbasket, its fertile soil yielding prosperity through generations of farming. While not a bustling metropolis, Viola has always been a place where neighbors know each other, a characteristic fostered by its early development as a crossroads for agricultural trade, where grain and produce would be brought to market. The legacy of those days is still felt in the quiet hum of local businesses that serve the surrounding farms, a resilience that has seen Viola through economic shifts, always anchored by the enduring rhythm of the harvest. The absence of grand monuments is compensated by the subtle grace of everyday life, a testament to the enduring spirit of this Kent County locale.
Live animated radar for Viola 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 | Viola, Kent County, Delaware |
| Coordinates | 39.042891°N, 75.57187°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 19979 |
| Area Code | 302 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Viola, Delaware Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Viola, Delaware, 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 Viola includes coordinates 39.042891°N, 75.571870°W, situated in Kent County. ZIP code 19979. Telephone area code: 302. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/New_York).
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.
