Colorado, Texas Weather
Colorado, Texas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Colorado, Bastrop County.
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Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Colorado.
About Colorado, Texas
Colorado, Texas, unfurls under a wide, often brilliant sky, a landscape etched by the slow, deliberate work of water and sun. It lies 41.3 miles east-south-east of Austin, TX (from Austin, TX: bearing 118°T), and is situated 2.2 miles south-east of Smithville. Rolling hills, cloaked in a mosaic of native grasses and hardy scrub, give way to broader expanses where the land seems to exhale, a quiet breath of dry earth and distant horizons. Creeks, sometimes a mere whisper of dampness in the dry months, can swell to a determined flow after a Texas downpour, carving shallow valleys and shaping the terrain with a patient, persistent hand. The air here carries a scent of sun-baked dust and the faint, sweet perfume of blooming wildflowers, a testament to the resilience of life in this corner of the Blackland Prairies. The history of Colorado is one of adaptation and quiet endurance, a story tied to the fertile earth and the ebb and flow of agricultural fortunes. For generations, the land has yielded cotton and other crops, the economy once driven by the sweat of labor and the yield of the harvest. While the agricultural roots remain, the character of Colorado has broadened, a subtle shift reflecting the changing times. The pace of life is unhurried, marked by the comings and goings of neighbors and the steady hum of small-town life. The distinctive charm of Colorado lies not in grand pronouncements, but in the subtle textures of its existence: the way the sunlight slants across the fields in the late afternoon, turning the dry grasses to molten gold, or the shared smiles exchanged on a quiet street.
Live animated radar for Colorado 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 | Colorado, Bastrop County, Texas |
| Coordinates | 29.985777°N, 97.134154°W |
| Timezone | Central Time |
| ZIP Code(s) | 78957 |
| Area Code | 830 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Colorado, Texas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Colorado, Texas, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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 Colorado includes coordinates 29.985777°N, 97.134154°W, situated in Bastrop County. ZIP code 78957. Telephone area code: 830. Timezone: Central Time.
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.
