Mesa Vista, California Weather
Mesa Vista, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Mesa Vista, Alpine County.
Full aviation weather for Mesa Vista is published on the Lake Tahoe Airport (KTVL) page, 20 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. 4 airfields within reach of Mesa Vista 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 Mesa Vista: Minden-Tahoe Airport (KMEV) 22 km · Carson Airport (KCXP) 43 km · Dayton Valley Airpark (KA34) 52 km
Conditions reported at KTVL describe the airfield itself. Weather 20 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Mesa Vista specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Mesa Vista.
About Mesa Vista, California
Mesa Vista rests in a high mountain basin, a place where the sky seems to spill down, vast and luminous, over a landscape of sagebrush-covered slopes and scattered ponderosa pines. It lies 24.7 miles south of Carson City, NV (from Carson City, NV: bearing 184°T), and is situated 6.3 miles south-south-west of Gardnerville Ranchos. The terrain here is sculpted by ancient glacial movements, leaving behind a rugged, yet strangely gentle, topography. The air, crisp and thin, carries the scent of sun-baked earth and the distant, resinous perfume of the forests that climb the surrounding peaks. In the quiet hours, one can almost feel the pulse of the land, a slow, steady beat in the stillness, broken only by the occasional hawk's cry or the rustle of wind through dry grasses. The light, especially as it begins to soften towards evening, casts long, ethereal shadows that stretch and deepen, lending a profound sense of peace to the rugged contours of Mesa Vista. This high country settlement, Mesa Vista, has long been a place shaped by the rhythms of nature and the hardy spirit of those who have chosen to call it home. Its history is interwoven with the pursuit of mineral wealth, with echoes of prospectors and miners still whispered on the wind, though the economy now leans more towards the quiet sustenance of ranching and the burgeoning appeal of its untamed natural beauty to those seeking respite from busier lives. The land itself, with its sparse but resilient vegetation, speaks of a long, slow unfolding, a patient endurance that has defined life here for generations. The clear, cold waters of nearby streams, remnants of mountain snowmelt, offer a vital lifeline, reflecting the immense blue of the sky and sustaining the hardy flora and fauna that are the true inhabitants of this elevated realm.
Live animated radar for Mesa Vista 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 | Mesa Vista, Alpine County, California |
| Coordinates | 38.807128°N, 119.79601°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 96120 |
| Area Code | 530 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Mesa Vista, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Mesa Vista, 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 Mesa Vista includes coordinates 38.807128°N, 119.796010°W, situated in Alpine County. ZIP code 96120. 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.
