Macdoel, California Weather
Macdoel, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Macdoel, Siskiyou County.
Full aviation weather for Macdoel is published on the Butte Valley Airport (KA32) page, 7 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 Macdoel 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 Macdoel: Siskiyou County Airport (KSIY) 39 km · Crater Lake-Klamath Regional Airport (KLMT) 43 km · Montague-Yreka Rohrer Field (K1O5) 46 km · Weed Airport (KO46) 54 km · Tulelake Municipal Airport (KO81) 54 km
Conditions reported at KA32 describe the airfield itself. Weather 7 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Macdoel specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Macdoel.
About Macdoel, California
Macdoel rests in a wide, high valley, a place where the sky feels vast and the distant mountains, their peaks sometimes dusted with snow even in early summer, form a rugged, blue-gray horizon. It lies 56.4 miles south-east of Medford, OR (from Medford, OR: bearing 127°T), and is situated 10.7 miles south-south-west of Dorris. The land itself is a patchwork of ochre fields and darker green pastures, bisected by the gentle curve of the Shasta River, its water a cool, clear ribbon reflecting the immense, ever-changing sky. The air here, especially in the mornings, carries a crispness, a clean scent of dry earth and pine that speaks of elevation and isolation. The light, too, has a particular quality, sharp and bright during the day, then softening into a warm, golden haze as the sun begins its descent, painting the western slopes in hues of rose and lavender. The history of Macdoel is tied to the land's bounty, a story of agriculture and the hardy souls who coaxed a living from this sometimes unforgiving terrain. For generations, cattle ranches and fields of grain have been the economic backbone of Macdoel, the land yielding its harvest under the tireless sun. You can still see the weathered barns and sturdy farmhouses that dot the landscape, silent witnesses to the enduring spirit of this place. The Shasta Valley offers a quiet rhythm, a pace dictated by the seasons and the needs of the land, where neighbors still know each other's names and the silence is often broken only by the lowing of cattle or the distant hum of a tractor.
Live animated radar for Macdoel 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 | Macdoel, Siskiyou County, California |
| Coordinates | 41.826815°N, 122.005285°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 96058 |
| Area Code | 530 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Macdoel, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Macdoel, 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 Macdoel includes coordinates 41.826815°N, 122.005285°W, situated in Siskiyou County. ZIP code 96058. Telephone area code: 530. 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.
