Loop, Pennsylvania Weather
Loop, Pennsylvania — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Loop, Blair County.
Full aviation weather for Loop is published on the Altoona Blair County Airport (KAOO) page, 14 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. 4 airfields within reach of Loop 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 Loop: Bedford County Airport (KHMZ) 40 km · John Murtha Johnstown Cambria County Airport (KJST) 42 km · Mid-State Regional Airport (KPSB) 56 km
Conditions reported at KAOO describe the airfield itself. Weather 14 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Loop specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Loop.
About Loop, Pennsylvania
Loop unfurls like a quiet sigh in the Appalachian foothills, a place where the land itself seems to breathe with the slow, deliberate exhalations of ancient trees. It lies 6.9 miles south-south-east of Altoona, PA (from Altoona, PA: bearing 165°T), and is situated 1.5 miles east-south-east of Hollidaysburg. Here, the terrain is a study in gentle, verdant slopes that swell and recede, their contours softened by a persistent, mossy green that clings to rock and root alike. The air, especially as the sun begins its descent, carries a crispness tinged with the damp earth and the faint, sweet perfume of pine needles. Shadows lengthen, stretching long fingers across the undulating fields, and the distant murmur of a hidden creek, too shy to reveal itself entirely, provides a subtle soundtrack to the deepening twilight. The history of Loop is deeply entwined with the very earth from which it springs, a narrative of resourcefulness and quiet persistence. For generations, the fertile valleys that cradle Loop have sustained agricultural endeavors, their fields yielding crops that speak of the sun's generous warmth and the dependable cycles of rain. Echoes of earlier industries, perhaps hinted at by weathered barns or the ghosts of long-gone tracks, whisper of a time when the land was worked with a different kind of labor, a more rugged extraction. Today, a sense of enduring community pervades, a shared understanding born from generations who have called this stretch of Pennsylvania home, their lives woven into the subtle, enduring character of Loop.
Live animated radar for Loop 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 | Loop, Blair County, Pennsylvania |
| Coordinates | 40.422017°N, 78.36168°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 16256, 16648 |
| 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 Loop, Pennsylvania Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Loop, 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 Loop includes coordinates 40.422017°N, 78.361680°W, situated in Blair County. ZIP code 16256, 16648. 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.
