Booker, Texas Weather
Booker, Texas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Booker, Lipscomb County.
Full aviation weather for Booker is published on the Perryton Ochiltree County Airport (KPYX) page, 20 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 Booker 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 Booker: Follett Lipscomb County Airport (KT93) 37 km · Beaver Municipal Airport (KK44) 38 km
Conditions reported at KPYX describe the airfield itself. Weather 20 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Booker specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Booker.
About Booker, Texas
Booker, Texas, exhales a quiet patience under a vast, indifferent sky. It lies 94.2 miles south-south-west of Dodge City, KS (from Dodge City, KS: bearing 198°T), and is situated 15.2 miles east-north-east of Perryton. The land here, a broad, mostly flat expanse, rolls out in muted greens and browns, stitched together by the thin, silver threads of fence lines and the occasional windbreak of cottonwood trees. The air, sharp and clean, carries the scent of sun-baked earth and the faint, sweet perfume of ripening grain. Dust devils, ephemeral dancers, spin lazily across the fields, their fleeting presence a reminder of the wind's constant, unseen work. The character of Booker is etched not in grand pronouncements, but in the steady, sun-weathered faces of its people and the stoic resilience of the land that sustains them. The story of Booker is one of hardy settlers drawn to the promise of fertile soil and a life built from the ground up. Wheat fields, stretching to the horizon like an ocean of gold in the summer, have long been the backbone of its economy, their bounty harvested and shipped out to feed distant cities. The rhythm of planting and reaping dictates the pulse of life in Booker, a cyclical cadence that connects the present to generations past. Though no grand monuments mark its history, the very existence of Booker, a persistent dot on the prairie, is a testament to the enduring spirit of those who chose to make their home in this wide-open country. The subtle hues of twilight, bleeding across the western sky, often paint the landscape in shades of rose and lavender, a fleeting beauty that whispers of the quiet, uncelebrated dramas unfolding in this corner of the Texas Panhandle.
Live animated radar for Booker 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 | Booker, Lipscomb County, Texas |
| Coordinates | 36.453365°N, 100.537367°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 79005 |
| Area Code | 806 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Booker, Texas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Booker, Texas, 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 Booker includes coordinates 36.453365°N, 100.537367°W, situated in Lipscomb County. ZIP code 79005. Telephone area code: 806. 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.
