Dustin Acres, California Weather
Dustin Acres, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Dustin Acres, Kern County.
Full aviation weather for Dustin Acres is published on the Taft Kern County Airport (KL17) page, 10 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. 6 airfields within reach of Dustin Acres 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 Dustin Acres: Elk Hills Buttonwillow Airport (KL62) 17 km · Shafter Airport - Minter Field (KMIT) 37 km · Meadows Field (KBFL) 38 km · New Cuyama Airport (KL88) 41 km · Wasco Kern County Airport (KL19) 45 km
Conditions reported at KL17 describe the airfield itself. Weather 10 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Dustin Acres specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Dustin Acres.
About Dustin Acres, California
Dustin Acres lies under a sky that stretches wide and pale, a vast canvas brushed with the ochre and sage of the Kern County landscape. It lies 23.5 miles west-south-west of Bakersfield, CA (from Bakersfield, CA: bearing 243°T), and is situated 6.5 miles north-east of Taft. The land here is a study in patient endurance, a rolling expanse of dry grasses and scrub oak that seems to sigh in the perpetual breeze. Sunlight, when it breaks through the haze, has a raw, unvarnished quality, bleaching the dust motes that dance in the still air and warming the weathered wood of farmsteads that dot the horizon. The silence is profound, broken only by the distant hum of an unseen engine or the cry of a hawk circling high above, a solitary sentinel in the immense quiet. The history of Dustin Acres is written in the persistent cultivation of the soil, a testament to generations who coaxed life from this arid ground. Once, perhaps, the whisper of water ran closer, a memory held in the parched creek beds that snake through the terrain. Today, the local economy is a sturdy, unpretentious thing, tied to the cycles of agriculture and the quiet labor of its people. The distinctive character of Dustin Acres is found not in grand monuments, but in the resilience of its homesteads, the stoic faces of its farmers, and the way the setting sun paints the western sky in hues of fire and ash, a daily spectacle that asks for nothing but to be witnessed.
Live animated radar for Dustin Acres 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 | Dustin Acres, Kern County, California |
| Coordinates | 35.219409°N, 119.390671°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 93268 |
| Area Code | 661 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Dustin Acres, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Dustin Acres, California, 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 Dustin Acres includes coordinates 35.219409°N, 119.390671°W, situated in Kern County. ZIP code 93268. Telephone area code: 661. Timezone: Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles).
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.
