Locustdale, Pennsylvania Weather
Locustdale, Pennsylvania — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Locustdale, Columbia County.
Full aviation weather for Locustdale is published on the Schuylkill County Joe Zerbey Airport (KZER) page, 8 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 Locustdale 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 Locustdale: Northumberland County Airport (KN79) 16 km · Bloomsburg Municipal Airport (KN13) 25 km · Danville Airport (K8N8) 30 km · Grimes Airport (K8N1) 34 km · Sunbury Airport (K71N) 36 km
Conditions reported at KZER describe the airfield itself. Weather 8 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Locustdale specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Locustdale.
About Locustdale, Pennsylvania
Locustdale unfolds across a landscape where rolling hills, softened by the passage of seasons, give way to the more insistent rise of Appalachian foothills. It lies 24.4 miles west-south-west of Hazleton, PA (from Hazleton, PA: bearing 239°T), and is situated 9.6 miles east of Shamokin. The air here, especially in the humid bloom of summer, carries the sweet, faintly decaying scent of fallen leaves and the distant, earthy musk of cultivated fields. Broadleaf trees, their canopies thick with the emerald promise of growth, crowd the slopes, creating shadowed hollows that hold the cool breath of the earth long after the sun has climbed high. The terrain is not dramatic, but possesses a quiet persistence, a gradual unfolding of land that invites one to walk its contours and feel the solid, unyielding character of the bedrock beneath. The story of Locustdale is etched not in grand monuments but in the enduring legacy of hard work and the quiet industry that once fueled its growth. Coal, that dark, subterranean promise, once pulsed beneath these hills, drawing families and forging a community whose very bones were shaped by the mines. Though the deep shafts have long since fallen silent, the echo of that era lingers in the sturdy, unpretentious architecture of its homes and the resilient spirit of its people. Today, agriculture still holds a significant place, the fertile valleys yielding their bounty, while the gentle pace of life allows for the appreciation of small things—the way the late afternoon sun gilds the weathered barns or the comforting drone of cicadas on a warm evening.
Live animated radar for Locustdale 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 | Locustdale, Columbia County, Pennsylvania |
| Coordinates | 40.777309°N, 76.376062°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 17945 |
| Area Code | 215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Locustdale, Pennsylvania Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Locustdale, Pennsylvania, 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 Locustdale includes coordinates 40.777309°N, 76.376062°W, situated in Columbia County. ZIP code 17945. Telephone area code: 215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878. 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.
