Frannie, Wyoming Weather
Frannie, Wyoming — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Frannie, Park County.
Full aviation weather for Frannie is published on the Powell Municipal Airport (KPOY) page, 18 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 Frannie 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 Frannie: Bridger Municipal Airport (K6S1) 43 km · Red Lodge Airport (KRED) 55 km · Yellowstone Regional Airport (KCOD) 59 km
Conditions reported at KPOY describe the airfield itself. Weather 18 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Frannie specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Frannie.
About Frannie, Wyoming
Frannie lies at the foot of the Bighorn Mountains, a scattering of buildings against a vast canvas of sagebrush and sky. It lies 56.6 miles south of Billings, MT (from Billings, MT: bearing 186°T), and is situated 9.5 miles north-west of Cowley. The land here is a study in muted tones: the dusty browns of the prairie, the pale ochre of sun-baked earth, and the distant, hazy blues of the mountain peaks. Wind, a constant presence, whispers through the sparse grasses, carrying the scent of dry earth and the faint, sweet perfume of wild sage. Sunlight, when it breaks through the often-clear skies, falls in broad, unyielding swathes, bleaching the landscape and sharpening the shadows. The few trees that dot the horizon stand stoic, their limbs reaching like ancient, weathered hands towards the immense expanse above, a silent testament to resilience. This corner of Big Horn County has long been shaped by the land's stark beauty and the hardy souls who have sought to coax a living from it. Ranching, a tradition deeply ingrained, still defines much of Frannie's economy, with cattle grazing on the wide-open spaces that stretch to the horizon. The railroad once passed through, a lifeline that brought goods and people, and though its presence is now a ghost of steel and memory, the echoes of its industrious past linger in the quiet avenues. Local lore speaks of a time when the land yielded more easily, a simpler era before the dust storms and the lean years, yet a stubborn optimism still blooms in the hearts of Frannie's residents, much like the tenacious wildflowers that push through the dry soil after a rare rain.
Live animated radar for Frannie 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 | Frannie, Park County, Wyoming |
| Coordinates | 44.969118°N, 108.621516°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 82423 |
| Area Code | 307 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Frannie, Wyoming Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Frannie, Wyoming, 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 Frannie includes coordinates 44.969118°N, 108.621516°W, situated in Park County. ZIP code 82423. Telephone area code: 307. Timezone: Mountain Time (America/Denver).
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.
