Schooner Bay, Virginia Weather
Schooner Bay, Virginia — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Schooner Bay, Accomack County.
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About Schooner Bay, Virginia
Schooner Bay breathes a salt-tinged air, a gentle exhalation from the Chesapeake’s broad embrace. It lies 32.9 miles south-west of Worcester, MD (from Worcester, MD: bearing 214°T), and is situated 3.7 miles north-north-west of Onancock. Here, the land lies low and luminous, a subtle gradient of marsh grass and sandy loam that slopes towards the whispering waterways. Live oaks, gnarled and ancient, stand sentinel, their branches draped with Spanish moss like forgotten lace, while the sky above is a vast, ever-shifting canvas of pearly grays and pale blues, often brushed with the rosy blush of dawn or the deepening amethyst of twilight. The quietude here is not an absence of sound, but a symphony of the natural world: the reedy call of a heron, the rustle of unseen creatures in the reeds, the distant, rhythmic pulse of waves meeting the shore. The history of Schooner Bay is inextricably tied to the bounty of its waters and the resilience of its people, a lineage stretching back to those who first navigated these inlets for sustenance and trade. For generations, the local economy has been shaped by the sea, with fishing boats like the namesake schooners once a common sight, their sails catching the same wind that now stirs the marsh grasses. Though the grand schooners have largely given way to smaller craft and aquaculture, a sense of enduring connection to the maritime past persists, evident in the weathered clapboard buildings and the unhurried cadence of daily life. The land itself, fertile and yielding, still supports small farms where produce finds its way to local markets, a reminder of the enduring agricultural roots that anchor Schooner Bay to its verdant, water-laced landscape.
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| Location | Schooner Bay, Accomack County, Virginia |
| Coordinates | 37.762573°N, 75.768929°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 23417 |
| Area Code | 757 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Schooner Bay, Virginia Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Schooner Bay, Virginia, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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 Schooner Bay includes coordinates 37.762573°N, 75.768929°W, situated in Accomack County. ZIP code 23417. 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. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.
