Shamokin, Pennsylvania Weather
Shamokin, Pennsylvania — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery for Shamokin, Northumberland County.
Full aviation weather for Shamokin is published on the Northumberland County Airport (KN79) page, 5 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 Shamokin 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 Shamokin: Schuylkill County Joe Zerbey Airport (KZER) 18 km · Danville Airport (K8N8) 19 km · Sunbury Airport (K71N) 22 km · Bloomsburg Municipal Airport (KN13) 25 km · Penn Valley Airport (KSEG) 26 km
Conditions reported at KN79 describe the airfield itself. Weather 5 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Shamokin specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
About Shamokin, Pennsylvania
Shamokin sits within a bowl of Appalachian foothills, where the land rises and falls with a steady, unhurried cadence. It lies 31.9 miles north-north-west of Lebanon, PA (from Lebanon, PA: bearing 346°T), and is situated 7.7 miles west of Mount Carmel. The houses, often modest and well-kept, cling to the slopes, their porches offering a view of the sky that seems to press down, a vast, luminous canvas that shifts from the pale, hopeful blue of morning to the bruised purples and oranges of dusk. Trees, a mix of hardy oaks and maples, punctuate the neighborhoods, their leaves rustling secrets on the breeze that often carries the faint, earthy scent of damp soil and distant pine. The air itself here has a certain weight, a quiet stillness that settles over the streets, broken only by the occasional drone of traffic or the distant clang of a train. The history of Shamokin is deeply entwined with the black veins of coal that lie beneath its surface, a legacy that shaped its very character and fueled its growth. For generations, the rhythm of life here was dictated by the mines, by the rise and fall of the industry that brought both prosperity and hardship. You can still feel the echo of those times in the sturdy brick buildings downtown, in the weathered faces of the older residents who remember the boom years and the subsequent decline. While the mining heyday has passed, a resilient spirit endures, a quiet determination in the local economy that now leans towards smaller businesses and services, a far cry from the roaring industry of the past. There's a palpable sense of community, a shared understanding born from a common heritage, that makes Shamokin a place apart, a quiet corner of Pennsylvania holding its own unique story.
Live animated radar for Shamokin 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 | Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania |
| Coordinates | 40.788975°N, 76.558847°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 17872 |
| 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 Shamokin, Pennsylvania Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Shamokin, 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 Shamokin includes coordinates 40.788975°N, 76.558847°W, situated in Northumberland County. ZIP code 17872. 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.
