Schooner Bay, Virginia Weather
Schooner Bay, 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 Schooner Bay, Accomack County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Schooner Bay. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Schooner Bay is published on the Accomack County Airport (KMFV) page, 13 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 Schooner Bay 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 Schooner Bay: Tangier Island Airport (KTGI) 21 km · Crisfield-Somerset County Airport (KW41) 29 km · Wallops Flight Facility Airport (KWAL) 33 km
Conditions reported at KMFV describe the airfield itself. Weather 13 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Schooner Bay specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Schooner Bay.
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.
Live animated radar for Schooner Bay 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 | 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 | September 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, 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 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. 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.
