Wayside, Texas Weather
Wayside, Texas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Wayside, Armstrong County.
Full aviation weather for Wayside is published on the City of Tulia-Swisher County Municipal Airport (KI06) page, 33 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 Wayside 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 Wayside: Joe Vaughn Spraying Airport (K29F) 49 km · Tradewind Airport (KTDW) 49 km · Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport (KAMA) 49 km
Conditions reported at KI06 describe the airfield itself. Weather 33 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Wayside specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Wayside.
About Wayside, Texas
Wayside lies under a vast, indifferent sky, a scattering of low-slung buildings against a canvas of ochre earth and pale, whispering grasses. It lies 33.7 miles south-south-east of Amarillo, TX (from Amarillo, TX: bearing 151°T), and is situated 17.8 miles east of Happy. The land here is a study in subtle shifts, a gentle swell and fall that hints at the immense forces that shaped it eons ago, now softened by wind and sun into a patient, enduring flatness. The air, when it carries a breeze, is dry and clean, smelling faintly of dust and the distant, tenacious scent of livestock. In the late afternoon, the sun bleeds across the horizon, casting long, attenuated shadows that stretch and warp the familiar shapes of the landscape, lending a fleeting, almost mournful beauty to the open expanse. The history of Wayside is etched not in grand monuments but in the quiet persistence of its people and the land that sustains them. It’s a place built on the back of agriculture, where cotton and cattle have long been the currency of survival and modest prosperity. The economy still turns on these ancient pivots, with the rumble of trucks hauling grain and the distant lowing of cattle a familiar soundtrack to everyday life. There are no grand universities or bustling marketplaces here; the notable features are the enduring grain elevators, silent sentinels against the blue, and the stoic faces of those who have learned to read the seasons and the land. The rhythm of Wayside is that of patience, of waiting for the rain, for the harvest, for the slow, steady turning of time under that immense Texas sky.
Live animated radar for Wayside 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 | Wayside, Armstrong County, Texas |
| Coordinates | 34.792834°N, 101.54712°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 79042, 79094, 79065 |
| Area Code | 806 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Wayside, Texas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Wayside, 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 Wayside includes coordinates 34.792834°N, 101.547120°W, situated in Armstrong County. ZIP code 79042, 79094, 79065. 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.
