Sinclair, Wyoming Weather
Sinclair, Wyoming — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Sinclair, Carbon County.
Full aviation weather for Sinclair is published on the Rawlins Municipal Airport/Harvey Field (KRWL) page, 8 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. 2 airfields within reach of Sinclair 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 Sinclair: Shively Field (KSAA) 44 km
Conditions reported at KRWL describe the airfield itself. Weather 8 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Sinclair specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Sinclair.
About Sinclair, Wyoming
Sinclair sprawls across a high prairie floor, a place where the wind, unimpeded by much else, combs through the sagebrush and carries the scent of dry earth. It lies 85.0 miles west-north-west of Laramie, WY (from Laramie, WY: bearing 293°T), and is situated 6.6 miles east of Rawlins. The land here is a study in muted tones: the pale gold of sun-bleached grasses, the dusty ochre of exposed soil, and the distant, hazy blues of the horizon. Low, rolling hills, scrubby and resilient, define the immediate surroundings, their slopes softened by the perpetual caress of the elements. In the wide, open sky above, clouds drift like slow-moving galleons, casting fleeting shadows that paint broad, ephemeral patterns across the landscape. The air itself, thin and crisp, has a clarity that lends a sharp edge to the distant buttes, making them appear as if they could be reached by a determined stride, though they remain stubbornly far. The very bones of Sinclair are forged in the black gold that once pulsed beneath this Wyoming earth. This was a town built on coal, its early days a testament to the gritty determination of miners who carved their livelihoods from the deep seams. The legacy of that era lingers, not in grand edifices, but in the quiet resilience of the people and the enduring character of the place. Though the mines have long since fallen silent, the spirit of industry, adapted and repurposed, still shapes Sinclair's economy. The air, even now, carries a faint, almost nostalgic whisper of the trains that once hauled away fortunes in coal, a reminder of a past that continues to inform the present.
Live animated radar for Sinclair 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 | Sinclair, Carbon County, Wyoming |
| Coordinates | 41.774959°N, 107.113103°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 82334 |
| Area Code | 307 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Sinclair, Wyoming Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Sinclair, 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 Sinclair includes coordinates 41.774959°N, 107.113103°W, situated in Carbon County. ZIP code 82334. 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.
