Locust, North Carolina Weather
Locust, North Carolina — 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 Locust, Stanly County.
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Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Locust.
About Locust, North Carolina
Locust breathes a quiet persistence, a place where the red clay earth settles deep into the soles of your shoes and the air carries the scent of pine needles and distant woodsmoke. It lies 13.5 miles south-east of Concord, NC (from Concord, NC: bearing 140°T), and is situated 10.0 miles west-south-west of Hills. Rolling hills, softened by decades of cultivation, cradle the landscape, their contours a gentle invitation to the eye. Here, the sky feels vast, a canvas for cotton-ball clouds that drift lazily across the blue, and the light, especially as afternoon deepens, takes on a honeyed quality, warming the weathered clapboard of homes and the broad leaves of oak trees. The paved roads, worn smooth by countless journeys, wind through a patchwork of fields and woods, hinting at a slower cadence of life, a deliberate unfolding of days. The roots of Locust run through a history shaped by agriculture and the hardiness of those who worked this soil, a tradition that still echoes in the small farms that dot the surrounding countryside, their barns standing like stoic sentinels. Once, the hum of industry might have been a more dominant sound, but today, the local economy finds its strength in a blend of small businesses, the steady pulse of trade that keeps the heart of Locust beating. There's a quiet pride here, a sense of belonging that's not boisterous but deeply felt, found in the shared smiles at the local diner and the familiar waves exchanged from passing cars. This is a place where the past is not forgotten but woven into the present, a subtle thread running through the ordinary moments of daily life.
Live animated radar for Locust 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.
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| Location | Locust, Stanly County, North Carolina |
| Coordinates | 35.259866°N, 80.425343°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 28097, 28107 |
| Area Code | 704, 980 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Locust, North Carolina Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Locust, North Carolina, 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 Locust includes coordinates 35.259866°N, 80.425343°W, situated in Stanly County. ZIP code 28097, 28107. Telephone area code: 704, 980. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/New_York).
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.
