Walsh, Colorado Weather
Walsh, Colorado — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Walsh, Baca County.
Full aviation weather for Walsh is published on the Springfield Municipal Airport (K8V7) 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. 3 airfields within reach of Walsh 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 Walsh: Stanton County Municipal Airport (KJHN) 53 km · Elkhart Morton County Airport (KEHA) 56 km
Conditions reported at K8V7 describe the airfield itself. Weather 31 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Walsh specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Walsh.
About Walsh, Colorado
Walsh sprawls across a landscape of subtle, wind-sculpted undulations, where the sky feels impossibly vast and stretches with an almost tangible presence. It lies 86.9 miles west-south-west of Garden City, KS (from Garden City, KS: bearing 243°T), and is situated 18.5 miles east of Springfield. The earth here is a rich, ochre red, a stark contrast against the pale, sun-bleached grasses that whisper secrets on the breeze, their dry stalks rustling with a sound like hushed conversations. The air itself often carries a dry, clean scent, tinged with the dust of the plains and the distant, sweet perfume of sun-baked earth. Even in the midday heat, a certain quietude settles, an invitation to slow down and observe the slow dance of shadows cast by the few sturdy trees that offer scant but precious shade. The horizon is a clean, unwavering line, broken only by the occasional, low-slung farmhouse or a distant, shimmering heat haze that plays tricks with perception. The history of Walsh is deeply entwined with the agricultural pulse of Baca County, a testament to the tenacity required to coax life from this arid soil. For generations, the economy here has revolved around the cultivation of crops that endure the sun and wind, and the raising of livestock that roam these open pastures. The town itself, though modest, carries the echoes of its pioneering past, with weathered buildings that seem to absorb the very light of the prairie sun. There's a distinct character to Walsh, a quiet resilience born from facing the elements and the challenges of isolation, fostering a strong sense of community among its residents. The rhythm of life here is dictated less by clocks and more by the seasons, by the coming of rain, and the slow, steady turning of the earth.
Live animated radar for Walsh 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 | Walsh, Baca County, Colorado |
| Coordinates | 37.386127°N, 102.278239°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 81090 |
| Area Code | 970 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Walsh, Colorado Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Walsh, Colorado, 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 Walsh includes coordinates 37.386127°N, 102.278239°W, situated in Baca County. ZIP code 81090. Telephone area code: 970. Timezone: Mountain Time (America/Denver).
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.
