Glen White, West Virginia Weather
Glen White, West Virginia — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Glen White, Raleigh County.
Full aviation weather for Glen White is published on the Raleigh County Memorial Airport (KBKW) page, 15 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. 2 airfields within reach of Glen White 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 Glen White: Mercer County Airport (KBLF) 49 km
Conditions reported at KBKW describe the airfield itself. Weather 15 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Glen White specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Glen White.
About Glen White, West Virginia
Glen White sprawls across the hollows and ridges of Raleigh County, a place where steep slopes are cloaked in the deep, verdant hues of Appalachian forest. It lies 46.9 miles south-south-east of Charleston, WV (from Charleston, WV: bearing 156°T), and is situated 6.0 miles west-south-west of Beckley. The landscape here is a study in verticality; houses cling to hillsides like tenacious moss, their porches offering sweeping, if sometimes dizzying, views of the surrounding terrain. Creek beds, often swollen with recent rains, carve serpentine paths through the valleys, their rocky beds whispering a constant, low murmur. The air, especially in the early morning, carries a damp, earthy fragrance, a subtle perfume of pine needles and decaying leaves that speaks to the persistent moisture of this high country. Sunlight, when it breaks through the dense canopy, falls in luminous shafts, illuminating dust motes dancing in the quiet air and lending a fleeting, almost sacred, glow to the shadowed undergrowth. This corner of West Virginia carries the indelible mark of coal. For generations, the rhythm of life in Glen White was dictated by the mining of the black seams that lie beneath the folded mountains. The echoes of that era persist in the weathered faces of former miners, in the stoic resilience of a community that has weathered economic shifts, and in the very layout of the place, where company towns once stood sentinel. While the boom times may have receded, a hardy spirit endures, fueled by a deep connection to the land and a pride in its heritage. The local economy, now more diversified, still feels the gravitational pull of its industrial past, but there's also a quiet turning towards other possibilities, a gentle unfolding of new chapters against the backdrop of ancient, enduring hills.
Live animated radar for Glen White 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 | Glen White, Raleigh County, West Virginia |
| Coordinates | 37.730392°N, 81.279824°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 25849 |
| Area Code | 304 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Glen White, West Virginia Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Glen White, West 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 Glen White includes coordinates 37.730392°N, 81.279824°W, situated in Raleigh County. ZIP code 25849. Telephone area code: 304. 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.
