Skowhegan, Maine Weather
Skowhegan, Maine — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Skowhegan, Somerset County.
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Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Skowhegan.
About Skowhegan, Maine
Skowhegan rests on the banks of the Kennebec River, a wide, muscular artery that has shaped its very being. It lies 46.2 miles west of Bangor, ME (from Bangor, ME: bearing 267°T), and is situated 8.2 miles east-south-east of Madison. The terrain here is a gentle rise and fall, not dramatic, but holding the deep, dark soil of central Maine, a place where the air smells of pine needles and the distant promise of rain. The houses, many of them clapboard and weathered shingles, huddle together as if for warmth, their porches offering quiet observation posts for the slow turning of the days. The light, especially in late afternoon, casts long, slanted shadows that stretch across lawns and pool in the hollows of the tree-lined streets, lending a certain gravitas to the ordinary. Even the wind here seems to carry a particular weight, a murmur of the vast, wild country that presses in from all sides. This is a place built on the enduring strength of the river and the land, its history inextricably linked to the industries that once thrived along its shores. For generations, logging and paper mills were the lifeblood of Skowhegan, their rhythmic hum a constant soundtrack to the lives of its people. Though those days have largely passed, the ghost of that industrial past still lingers, a tangible presence in the sturdy brick buildings that line the downtown and the memory of the workers who powered them. Today, agriculture reasserts its claim, with farms spreading out into the surrounding countryside, their fields a patchwork of greens and golds under the broad Maine sky, a reminder of the earth's persistent bounty and the quiet resilience of those who tend it.
Live animated radar for Skowhegan and surroundings — RainViewer.
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| Location | Skowhegan, Somerset County, Maine |
| Coordinates | 44.765062°N, 69.719218°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time |
| ZIP Code(s) | 04976 |
| Area Code | 207 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Skowhegan, Maine Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Skowhegan, Maine, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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 Skowhegan includes coordinates 44.765062°N, 69.719218°W, situated in Somerset County. ZIP code 04976. Telephone area code: 207. Timezone: Eastern Time.
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.
