Plain View, North Carolina Weather
Plain View, 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 Plain View, Richmond County.
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About Plain View, North Carolina
Plain View lies low and wide, a sprawl of earth settled into the gentle contours of Richmond County. It lies 38.2 miles south-west of Sanford, NC (from Sanford, NC: bearing 233°T), and is situated 8.6 miles west-south-west of Foxfire. Here, the sky seems to unfurl with a particular generosity, stretching a pale blue canvas over fields that roll with the quiet persistence of old habits. Pines, scrub oaks, and the occasional stubborn cedar punctuate the landscape, their silhouettes softening the horizon as the sun begins its slow descent, bleeding honeyed light across the terrain. The air itself carries a faint, dry scent of pine needles and sun-baked earth, a subtle perfume that clings to everything, a constant reminder of the land’s enduring presence. The history of Plain View is as rooted and unassuming as the ancient oaks that stand sentinel at its edges. This is a place shaped by agriculture, the soil yielding its bounty season after season, a quiet testament to generations of farmers who coaxed life from the earth. The local economy, once tied more directly to the land’s yield, now hums with a more varied, though still modest, energy, reflecting the changing tides of rural life. There are no grand monuments here, no towering spires to mark its passage through time, only the persistent hum of everyday life, the familiar rhythm of a community that knows the value of patience and the quiet strength of shared endurance.
Live animated radar for Plain View 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 | Plain View, Richmond County, North Carolina |
| Coordinates | 35.14487°N, 79.719211°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 28338, 28334 |
| Area Code | 704, 980 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Plain View, North Carolina Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Plain View, 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 Plain View includes coordinates 35.144870°N, 79.719211°W, situated in Richmond County. ZIP code 28338, 28334. 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.
