Homewood Canyon, California Weather
Homewood Canyon, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Homewood Canyon, Inyo County.
Full aviation weather for Homewood Canyon is published on the China Lake Naws (Armitage Field) Airport (KNID) 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. 2 airfields within reach of Homewood Canyon 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 Homewood Canyon: Inyokern Airport (KIYK) 48 km
Conditions reported at KNID describe the airfield itself. Weather 36 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Homewood Canyon specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Homewood Canyon.
About Homewood Canyon, California
Homewood Canyon lies in a stark embrace of raw earth, a place where the very bones of the land are laid bare under a sky of immense, unblinking blue. It lies 24.4 miles north-east of Ridgecrest, CA (from Ridgecrest, CA: bearing 41°T), and is situated 8.5 miles north of Searles Valley. The terrain here is a study in arid resilience, a jumble of steep-sided ravines and sun-baked slopes, where creosote bushes cling tenaciously to a soil the color of dried blood. Jagged peaks, their ancient faces etched by wind and time, loom in the distance, their silence broken only by the occasional, mournful cry of a hawk circling overhead. In the narrow washes, a sparse scattering of brittle grasses and hardy wildflowers offers a fleeting blush of color against the pervasive ochre and grey, a testament to life's persistent, quiet will. This particular stretch of Inyo County carries the faint, lingering scent of a past driven by the earth's hidden wealth. Once, the whisper of pickaxes and the rumble of ore carts might have echoed through these canyons, a time when Homewood Canyon was a hub of prospectors and miners drawn by the promise of silver and gold. Though those days are long past, the spirit of rugged independence and self-reliance still seems to permeate the air, a subtle undercurrent in the lives of those who now call Homewood Canyon home. The local economy, a more muted affair now, leans on the quiet sustenance of ranching and the occasional tourism drawn to the stark, untamed beauty of the surrounding wilderness, a beauty that seems to hold its breath, waiting for the deep, slow turn of the seasons.
Live animated radar for Homewood Canyon 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 | Homewood Canyon, Inyo County, California |
| Coordinates | 35.89°N, 117.3863°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 92328 |
| Area Code | 909 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Homewood Canyon, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Homewood Canyon, 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 Homewood Canyon includes coordinates 35.890000°N, 117.386300°W, situated in Inyo County. ZIP code 92328. Telephone area code: 909. 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.
