Red Jacket, West Virginia Weather
Red Jacket, West Virginia — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Red Jacket, Mingo County.
Full aviation weather for Red Jacket is published on the Southern West Virginia Regional Airport (KEBD) page, 4 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. 3 airfields within reach of Red Jacket 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 Red Jacket: Pike County Airport Hatcher Field (KPBX) 39 km · Big Sandy Regional Airport (KSJS) 45 km
Conditions reported at KEBD describe the airfield itself. Weather 4 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Red Jacket specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Red Jacket.
About Red Jacket, West Virginia
Red Jacket exhales a breath of coal dust and damp earth, a scent clinging to the steep, forested slopes that hem it in. It lies 55.8 miles south-south-east of Huntington, WV (from Huntington, WV: bearing 163°T), and is situated 7.7 miles east-south-east of Williamson. The Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River, a muddy artery, slides past the edge of Red Jacket, its banks a tangle of wild honeysuckle and tenacious scrub. On either side, hills rise in a series of emerald waves, their peaks often shrouded in a soft, blue haze that softens the sharp edges of the terrain. The sky here feels vast, a canvas for the swift passage of clouds, and when the sun dips low, it bleeds a fiery orange and bruised purple across the western ridge, painting the modest houses and weathered storefronts in a fleeting, dramatic light. The very bones of Red Jacket are forged from the coal that lies deep beneath these hills, a history etched into the landscape and the lives of its people. For generations, the rhythm of this place pulsed to the clang of pickaxes and the rumble of mine cars, a demanding economy that shaped every aspect of its existence. Though the seams have thinned and the most fervent days of extraction have passed, the legacy of that industry lingers, a quiet strength in the enduring spirit of Red Jacket. Old photographs, faded but proud, might still hang in the windows of the few businesses that remain, testaments to a time when the town bustled with miners and their families, a community bound by the shared labor and the rugged beauty of their mountain home.
Live animated radar for Red Jacket 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 | Red Jacket, Mingo County, West Virginia |
| Coordinates | 37.648438°N, 82.140132°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 25692 |
| Area Code | 304 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Red Jacket, West Virginia Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Red Jacket, 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 Red Jacket includes coordinates 37.648438°N, 82.140132°W, situated in Mingo County. ZIP code 25692. 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.
