Mears, Virginia Weather
Mears, Virginia — 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 Mears, Accomack County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Mears. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Mears is published on the Wallops Flight Facility Airport (KWAL) page, 17 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. 5 airfields within reach of Mears 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 Mears: Crisfield-Somerset County Airport (KW41) 24 km · Accomack County Airport (KMFV) 28 km · Tangier Island Airport (KTGI) 33 km · Salisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (KSBY) 53 km
Conditions reported at KWAL describe the airfield itself. Weather 17 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Mears specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Mears.
About Mears, Virginia
Mears rests in a landscape shaped by the subtle contours of the Eastern Shore, where the land, a soft green velvet, slopes gently towards distant, unseen waters. It lies 22.5 miles south-south-west of Worcester, MD (from Worcester, MD: bearing 208°T), and is situated 8.3 miles west-south-west of Wattsville. The air here carries the faint, sweet perfume of salt and pine, a constant reminder of the Chesapeake Bay's proximity, its vastness a quiet presence even miles inland. Here, the sky often stretches in a wide, unbroken arc, painted with clouds that drift with a stately, unhurried grace, and the sunlight, especially in the late afternoon, has a honeyed quality, bathing the fields and the occasional weathered barn in a warm, golden light. The roads, often lined with ancient oaks whose branches spread like gnarled fingers, lead through a patchwork of farms and woodlands, each turn revealing another vista of quiet rural life, where the loudest sounds are the rustling of leaves and the distant call of a seabird. The history of Mears is interwoven with the agricultural heritage of Accomack County, a place where farming has long been the lifeblood of its communities. Generations have worked this fertile soil, coaxing forth crops that have sustained families and fed distant markets, and the rhythm of the seasons still dictates much of the local economy. Though the fishing fleets of the coast are a familiar sight and sound in neighboring towns, Mears itself has always held a more grounded, agrarian character, a place where the land itself is the primary enterprise. The distinctive architecture, often simple and sturdy, speaks of a practical people, their lives shaped by the bountiful, and sometimes capricious, offerings of nature, and the quiet pride of a community that has weathered its share of storms, both literal and economic, with resilient grace.
Live animated radar for Mears 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 | Mears, Accomack County, Virginia |
| Coordinates | 37.871758°N, 75.629916°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 23409 |
| Area Code | 757 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Mears, Virginia Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Mears, Virginia, 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 Mears includes coordinates 37.871758°N, 75.629916°W, situated in Accomack County. ZIP code 23409. Telephone area code: 757. 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.
