Long Creek, North Carolina Weather
Long Creek, 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 Long Creek, Pender County.
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Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Long Creek.
About Long Creek, North Carolina
Long Creek exhales a humid breath, the air thick with the scent of pine needles and the distant murmur of brackish water. It lies 13.0 miles north of Leland, NC (from Leland, NC: bearing 9°T), and is situated 9.0 miles south-south-west of Burgaw. The land here is a low, yielding expanse, a subtle rise and fall of sandy loam that cradles the scattered homes and fields. Ancient live oaks, their limbs draped in Spanish moss like the shawls of forgotten matriarchs, stand sentinel over the quiet roads, their shadows stretching long and cool in the afternoon sun. The sky above Long Creek is a boundless canvas, often painted with the bruised purples and fiery oranges of a coming storm, a dramatic prelude to the soft, persistent rain that nourishes the coastal plain. The very earth seems to hold its breath, waiting for the next whisper of wind through the palmettos. The history of Long Creek is written in the slow, steady flow of its namesake waterway, a vein of dark water that once carried the commerce of timber and naval stores. Generations have worked this soil, their lives intertwined with the cycles of tobacco and cotton, a legacy that still echoes in the weathered barns and the stoic faces of its inhabitants. While the larger agricultural operations have receded, a spirit of self-reliance endures, evident in the small farms that still dot the landscape and the independent businesses that serve the local needs. The proximity to the coast, though not directly on the ocean's edge, lends a certain salt-laced character to the air, a subtle reminder of the wider world that lies just beyond the whispering pines.
Live animated radar for Long Creek and surroundings — RainViewer.
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| Location | Long Creek, Pender County, North Carolina |
| Coordinates | 34.442112°N, 78.009714°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 28457 |
| Area Code | 910 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Long Creek, North Carolina Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Long Creek, 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 Long Creek includes coordinates 34.442112°N, 78.009714°W, situated in Pender County. ZIP code 28457. Telephone area code: 910. 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.
