Homewood Canyon, California Weather
Homewood Canyon, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Homewood Canyon, Inyo County.
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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.
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| 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 | July 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, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.
