Winchester, Oklahoma Weather
Winchester, Oklahoma — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Winchester, Woods County.
Full aviation weather for Winchester is published on the Alva Regional Airport (KAVK) page, 23 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 Winchester 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 Winchester: Freedom Municipal Airport (KK77) 35 km · Medicine Lodge Airport (KK51) 41 km · Comanche County Airport (K3K8) 56 km
Conditions reported at KAVK describe the airfield itself. Weather 23 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Winchester specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Winchester.
About Winchester, Oklahoma
Winchester rests upon a broad, gently rolling prairie, where the horizon stretches with an almost painful immensity, a canvas for the ever-shifting Oklahoma sky. It lies 64.0 miles north-west of Enid, OK (from Enid, OK: bearing 308°T), and is situated 12.8 miles north-west of Alva. The land itself, a tapestry of faded greens and sun-baked golds, slopes imperceptibly towards unseen draws and shallow creek beds, their dry courses often marked by a fringe of hardy cottonwoods and mesquite. The air here carries the dry, clean scent of dust and distant grasses, a fragrance that intensifies with the heat of the day, only to be softened by the cool, creeping shadows of dusk. It is a landscape that demands patience, where the subtle drama unfolds in the slow growth of a wheat stalk or the sudden, silent flight of a hawk against the immense blue dome. The story of Winchester is one of tenacious settlement, of homesteaders who wrestled sustenance from this seemingly unyielding earth. Its economy, once tied to the fortunes of grain and cattle, now finds its pulse in the quiet hum of agricultural machinery and the steady rhythm of rural life, a life that has learned to weather the caprices of drought and the fleeting abundance of good years. The echoes of past generations linger in the weathered clapboard of the few remaining historic buildings, silent witnesses to the hardscrabble days and simpler pleasures. There are no grand monuments here, only the enduring spirit of a place that has learned to thrive not through spectacle, but through quiet resilience, a testament to the enduring power of human will against the vast, indifferent beauty of the prairie.
Live animated radar for Winchester 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 | Winchester, Woods County, Oklahoma |
| Coordinates | 36.957252°N, 98.797312°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 73717, 74421 |
| Area Code | 405, 918 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Winchester, Oklahoma Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Winchester, 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 Winchester includes coordinates 36.957252°N, 98.797312°W, situated in Woods County. ZIP code 73717, 74421. Telephone area code: 405, 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.
