Forest Hills, North Carolina Weather
Forest Hills, North Carolina — 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 Forest Hills, Lee County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Forest Hills. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Forest Hills is published on the Raleigh Executive Jetport (KTTA) 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 Forest Hills 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 Forest Hills: Gilliam-McConnell Airfield (KBQ1) 28 km · Moore County Airport (KSOP) 34 km · Siler City Municipal Airport (KSCR) 36 km · Pope Field (KPOB) 40 km · Derby Aerodrome (KN26) 57 km
Conditions reported at KTTA describe the airfield itself. Weather 13 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Forest Hills specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Forest Hills.
About Forest Hills, North Carolina
Forest Hills unfolds across a gentle terrain, where longleaf pines stand sentinel over sandy soil, their needles a rustling carpet underfoot. It lies 1.7 miles north-north-west of Sanford, NC (from Sanford, NC: bearing 329°T), and is situated 8.6 miles west-north-west of Broadway. The air, especially in the late afternoon, carries a faint, sweet scent of pine sap and the distant murmur of cicadas, a sound that seems to hum with the very essence of the Carolinian summer. Sunlight, filtered through the dense canopy, creates shifting mosaics of light and shadow on the forest floor, lending a hushed, reverent quality to the landscape. The land itself breathes a quiet resilience, a place where the earth feels ancient and patient, holding within it the slow processes of growth and decay. The history of Forest Hills is interwoven with the agricultural rhythms of Lee County, a region long shaped by the cultivation of tobacco and cotton. While the era of grand plantations has receded, the echoes of that past can still be felt in the enduring connection to the land and its bounty. The local economy, though diversified, retains a grounding in agriculture and small-scale industry, a testament to the resourcefulness of its inhabitants. A sense of unhurried purpose pervades everyday life in Forest Hills; the pace is steady, dictated more by the changing seasons and the needs of the community than by external pressures. It is a place that values its roots, where a quiet dignity marks the passage of time.
Live animated radar for Forest Hills 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 | Forest Hills, Lee County, North Carolina |
| Coordinates | 35.501264°N, 79.195854°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 28697, 27253, 27896, 28723 |
| Area Code | 919, 984, 828 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Forest Hills, North Carolina Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Forest Hills, North Carolina, 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 Forest Hills includes coordinates 35.501264°N, 79.195854°W, situated in Lee County. ZIP code 28697, 27253, 27896, 28723. Telephone area code: 919, 984, 828. 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.
