Rainelle, West Virginia Weather
Rainelle, West Virginia — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Rainelle, Greenbrier County.
Full aviation weather for Rainelle is published on the Summersville Airport (KSXL) page, 31 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 Rainelle 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 Rainelle: Richwood Municipal Airport (K3I4) 34 km · Greenbrier Valley Airport (KLWB) 34 km · Raleigh County Memorial Airport (KBKW) 37 km
Conditions reported at KSXL describe the airfield itself. Weather 31 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Rainelle specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Rainelle.
About Rainelle, West Virginia
Rainelle rests in a hollow, embraced by the slopes of the Allegheny Mountains, where the Greenbrier River's younger cousin, the Meadow River, murmurs its constant, stony song. It lies 53.9 miles east-south-east of Charleston, WV (from Charleston, WV: bearing 119°T), and is situated 4.2 miles west of Rupert. The land here is a study in greens and browns, a rugged, forested terrain that softens as it descends into the valley floor. Sunlight, when it breaks through the often-cloudy skies, paints the steep hillsides with a diffused, golden light, catching the dampness on the leaves and making the air feel thick with the scent of pine and damp earth. The character of Rainelle is as quiet and enduring as the mountains themselves, a place where the wind often seems to carry the scent of woodsmoke and the distant rumble of trucks on the highway, a reminder of the outside world but not its dominant force. The story of Rainelle is deeply entwined with the timber and coal that once flowed from these hills, industries that shaped its founding and its people. The ghosts of logging camps and the echoes of pickaxes are whispered in the rustling leaves, a history that has left its mark on the very bones of the place. Today, the economy shifts, with the Meadow River still offering its cool embrace for fishing and quiet contemplation, and a resilient spirit holding fast to the land. You can still see the sturdy, practical architecture that speaks of a working past, buildings that have weathered seasons and stood their ground. There's a profound sense of continuity here, a feeling that the rhythms of Rainelle are dictated more by the turning of the seasons and the slow, steady flow of the river than by the fleeting trends of the wider world.
Live animated radar for Rainelle 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 | Rainelle, Greenbrier County, West Virginia |
| Coordinates | 37.968728°N, 80.767034°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 25962 |
| Area Code | 304 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Rainelle, West Virginia Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Rainelle, 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 Rainelle includes coordinates 37.968728°N, 80.767034°W, situated in Greenbrier County. ZIP code 25962. 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.
