Fort Meade, Florida Weather
Fort Meade, Florida — 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 Fort Meade, Polk County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Fort Meade. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Fort Meade is published on the Bartow Executive Airport (KBOW) page, 21 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 Fort Meade 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 Fort Meade: Lake Wales Municipal Airport (KX07) 24 km · Wauchula Municipal Airport (KCHN) 28 km · South Lakeland Airport (KX49) 31 km · Avon Park Executive Airport (KAVO) 32 km · Lakeland Linder International Airport (KLAL) 34 km
Conditions reported at KBOW describe the airfield itself. Weather 21 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Fort Meade specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Fort Meade.
About Fort Meade, Florida
Fort Meade rests in a landscape shaped by the slow, meandering presence of the Peace River. It lies 19.1 miles south-south-west of Winter Haven, FL (from Winter Haven, FL: bearing 193°T), and is situated 9.8 miles south-south-west of Alturas. The land here is a gentle undulation of pine flatwoods and palmetto scrub, where sunlight filters through the long needles of the pines, casting shifting patterns on the sandy soil. The air, especially in the late afternoon, carries a humid, earthy scent, a blend of damp earth and the sweet, faint perfume of unseen wildflowers. Life in Fort Meade moves with a quiet deliberation, a rhythm dictated by the sun and the subtle shifts in the subtropical climate, where mornings often dawn with a mist that clings to the low-lying areas before burning off into the warm embrace of day. This corner of Polk County holds echoes of a past deeply entwined with Florida's phosphate industry, a time when the digging and processing of this vital mineral shaped the very terrain and economy of Fort Meade. The river, once a highway for barges laden with the precious rock, now flows with a more placid dignity, its banks still bearing the marks of that industrious era. Though the intense mining operations have largely receded, the legacy remains, a subtle undercurrent in the character of Fort Meade. The town retains a sense of its origins, a sturdy resilience born from a history of hard work and the enduring connection to the fertile, mineral-rich earth.
Live animated radar for Fort Meade 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 | Fort Meade, Polk County, Florida |
| Coordinates | 27.752253°N, 81.801749°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 33841 |
| Area Code | 561 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Fort Meade, Florida Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Fort Meade, Florida, 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 Fort Meade includes coordinates 27.752253°N, 81.801749°W, situated in Polk County. ZIP code 33841. Telephone area code: 561. 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.
