Scipio, Oklahoma Weather
Scipio, Oklahoma — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Scipio, Pittsburg County.
Full aviation weather for Scipio is published on the Arrowhead Airport (K91F) page, 32 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 Scipio 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 Scipio: Fountainhead Lodge Airpark (K0F7) 49 km
Conditions reported at K91F describe the airfield itself. Weather 32 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Scipio specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Scipio.
About Scipio, Oklahoma
Scipio lies low in the southeastern Oklahoma landscape, a place where the earth shows its age in gentle swells and the sky feels vast, especially in the long, quiet stretches of afternoon. It lies 57.8 miles east-south-east of Shawnee, OK (from Shawnee, OK: bearing 109°T), and is situated 13.5 miles north-west of McAlester. The terrain here is a mix of rolling hills, some covered in a thick, persistent scrub oak and blackjack trees, others cleared for pasture where cattle graze with a placid indifference to the world beyond the fence lines. The air often carries the scent of damp soil and, in the warmer months, the sweet, heavy perfume of honeysuckle that seems to have an ancient claim on the ditches and along the weathered wooden posts. Small, weathered farmhouses, their paint long faded to muted grays and blues, dot the landscape, each a small, self-contained universe against the broad sweep of the horizon. The history of Scipio is tied to the earth itself, to the coal that once lay buried beneath these very hills, a promise of prosperity that brought a transient surge of life to the region. Though the mines have long since fallen silent, their absence is a quiet echo in the character of Scipio, a reminder of past industry and the people who worked them. The local economy now leans more on agriculture and the resilience of small businesses that serve the immediate needs of the surrounding farms and ranches. There isn't much in the way of grand monuments or bustling attractions in Scipio; its distinction lies in the unhurried pace of life, the way the sun dips below the western hills painting the sky in hues of bruised purple and fading rose, and the enduring quiet that settles over the land as dusk descends.
Live animated radar for Scipio 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 | Scipio, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma |
| Coordinates | 35.054816°N, 95.956666°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 74501 |
| Area Code | 918 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Scipio, Oklahoma Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Scipio, Oklahoma, 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 Scipio includes coordinates 35.054816°N, 95.956666°W, situated in Pittsburg County. ZIP code 74501. Telephone area code: 918. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
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.
