Boomer, West Virginia Weather
Boomer, West Virginia — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Boomer, Fayette County.
Full aviation weather for Boomer is published on the Yeager Airport (KCRW) page, 36 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 Boomer 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 Boomer: Summersville Airport (KSXL) 38 km · Raleigh County Memorial Airport (KBKW) 43 km · Richwood Municipal Airport (K3I4) 57 km
Conditions reported at KCRW describe the airfield itself. Weather 36 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Boomer specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Boomer.
About Boomer, West Virginia
Boomer rests in a hollow, a place where the folded hills of Fayette County embrace a quiet stretch of land. It lies 23.2 miles south-east of Charleston, WV (from Charleston, WV: bearing 126°T), and is situated 3.0 miles south-east of Montgomery. Here, the air often carries the damp, earthy scent of the surrounding Appalachian forest, a perfume that deepens with the evening mist. The landscape itself is a testament to powerful forces, with slopes that rise steeply, cloaked in a dense, green mantle of oak and pine, and narrow valleys where the land flattens just enough for human habitation. The Kanawha River, a broad, slow-moving artery, marks the edge of this particular bend, its surface catching the changing light of the sky, reflecting the bruised purples of twilight or the sharp, clean blue of midday. Life in Boomer has a grounded quality, a sense of being deeply rooted in the contours of the earth. The history of Boomer is inextricably tied to the rich veins of coal that once pulsed beneath these hills, a legacy that shaped the fortunes and character of the place. For generations, the rhythm of life here was dictated by the clang of pickaxes and the rumble of mine cars, the economy fueled by the black gold extracted from the earth. While the era of large-scale mining has largely receded, the echoes of that industrious past remain, a subtle undercurrent in the town's identity. The landscape still bears the marks of that time, though nature has begun its patient work of reclaiming the scars. The Kanawha River served not only as a boundary but as a vital artery for transportation, carrying the mined coal to distant markets, and its presence continues to lend a certain quiet grandeur to the periphery of Boomer.
Live animated radar for Boomer 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 | Boomer, Fayette County, West Virginia |
| Coordinates | 38.150662°N, 81.287332°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 25031 |
| Area Code | 304 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Boomer, West Virginia Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Boomer, West Virginia, 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 Boomer includes coordinates 38.150662°N, 81.287332°W, situated in Fayette County. ZIP code 25031. Telephone area code: 304. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/New_York).
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.
