Shaft, Maryland Weather
Shaft, Maryland — 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 Shaft, Allegany County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Shaft. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Shaft is published on the Greater Cumberland Regional Airport (KCBE) page, 14 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. 3 airfields within reach of Shaft 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 Shaft: Garrett County Airport (K2G4) 35 km · Somerset County Airport (K2G9) 46 km
Conditions reported at KCBE describe the airfield itself. Weather 14 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Shaft specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Shaft.
About Shaft, Maryland
Shaft rests in a fold of Allegany County, where rolling hills surrender to the insistent embrace of the Appalachian Mountains. It lies 16.9 miles west of Allegany, MD (from Allegany, MD: bearing 271°T), and is situated 9.0 miles west of Cumberland. The land here is a study in textures: the rough bark of ancient oaks, the smooth, cool stones of creek beds, and the yielding earth of fields that seem to exhale the scent of damp soil and pine. Sunlight, when it breaks through the canopy, falls in broad, golden shafts, illuminating patches of ferns and moss-covered logs, and lending a hushed reverence to the dense woodlands that hem the scattered clearings. The air itself carries a crispness, a clean, wild perfume that speaks of elevation and the slow, steady pulse of nature’s enduring rhythm. The history of Shaft is a quiet one, etched not in grand pronouncements but in the persistent labor of generations who found their sustenance in this rugged terrain. Once, the whisper of coal dust hung heavy in the air, a testament to the industry that drew families to these valleys and fueled an economy rooted in the earth’s dark heart. Though the mines have long since fallen silent, the legacy remains, a memory held in the stoic faces of the older residents and the sturdy, unadorned architecture that still graces the landscape. Today, agriculture and the timber industry offer a gentler livelihood, their presence marked by the orderly rows of farmland and the distant hum of chainsaws, weaving a continuity with the past that defines the enduring character of Shaft.
Live animated radar for Shaft 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 | Shaft, Allegany County, Maryland |
| Coordinates | 39.630631°N, 78.929542°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 21532 |
| Area Code | 410, 443 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Shaft, Maryland Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Shaft, Maryland, 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 Shaft includes coordinates 39.630631°N, 78.929542°W, situated in Allegany County. ZIP code 21532. Telephone area code: 410, 443. 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.
