Riegelwood, North Carolina Weather
Riegelwood, 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 Riegelwood, Columbus County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Riegelwood. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Riegelwood is published on the Wilmington International Airport (KILM) page, 30 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 Riegelwood 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 Riegelwood: Curtis L Brown Jr Field (KEYF) 44 km · Columbus County Municipal Airport (KCPC) 46 km · Henderson Field (KACZ) 47 km · Cape Fear Regional Jetport / Howie Franklin Field Airport (KSUT) 48 km · Odell Williamson Municipal Airport (K60J) 52 km
Conditions reported at KILM describe the airfield itself. Weather 30 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Riegelwood specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Riegelwood.
About Riegelwood, North Carolina
Riegelwood breathes a humid, earthy scent, a perfume of damp soil and pine needles that clings to the air even on the brightest afternoons. It lies 11.8 miles west-north-west of Leland, NC (from Leland, NC: bearing 299°T), and is situated 9.4 miles south of Long View. The landscape here is a study in muted greens and browns, a low-lying expanse where the land swells gently before dipping towards the slow-moving waters of the Cape Fear River. Cypress knees, like gnarled knuckles, break the surface of the shadowed swamps that edge the cultivated fields, and the sky, often a vast, pale blue, seems to press down with a tangible weight. In the twilight, the air grows thick and still, and the distant hum of unseen insects becomes the dominant sound, a steady pulse against the quietude of Riegelwood. This corner of Columbus County, once a vital artery for the timber trade, still carries the echoes of its past, though the forests have largely yielded to agricultural pursuits. Fields of soybeans and corn stretch towards the horizon, their broad leaves rustling in the infrequent breeze, a testament to the enduring connection between the people and the land. The economy, once fueled by the robust cut of lumber from the surrounding pine forests, now relies on the steady yield of these crops, a predictable rhythm that dictates the pace of life in Riegelwood. Though no grand monuments mark its history, the very air seems to whisper of the generations who worked this soil, their lives interwoven with the ebb and flow of the river and the changing seasons.
Live animated radar for Riegelwood 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 | Riegelwood, Columbus County, North Carolina |
| Coordinates | 34.339891°N, 78.225277°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 28456 |
| Area Code | 910 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Riegelwood, North Carolina Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Riegelwood, 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 Riegelwood includes coordinates 34.339891°N, 78.225277°W, situated in Columbus County. ZIP code 28456. 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. 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.
