Mountain Meadows, California Weather
Mountain Meadows, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Mountain Meadows, Kern County.
Full aviation weather for Mountain Meadows is published on the Mountain Valley Airport (KL94) page, 2 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 Mountain Meadows 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 Mountain Meadows: Tehachapi Municipal Airport (KTSP) 4 km · Mojave Air & Space Port (KMHV) 27 km · Rosamond Skypark Airport (KL00) 33 km · California City Municipal Airport (KL71) 39 km · General William J Fox Airfield (KWJF) 45 km
Conditions reported at KL94 describe the airfield itself. Weather 2 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Mountain Meadows specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Mountain Meadows.
About Mountain Meadows, California
Mountain Meadows unfolds as a broad expanse under a sky that often feels too vast for the land below. It lies 32.8 miles north-north-west of Lancaster, CA (from Lancaster, CA: bearing 329°T), and is situated 2.0 miles south-south-east of Tehachapi. The terrain here is a study in subtle transitions, where the scrubby chaparral, resilient and low-slung, gives way to rolling hills that seem to sigh with the effort of their own existence. Dust, a fine, ochre powder, coats everything with a gentle hand, softening the sharp edges of rock and sagebrush, and catching the late afternoon sun in a haze that makes the distant peaks appear almost liquid. The air, when the wind stirs, carries the dry, clean scent of wild herbs, a perfume that speaks of a deep, enduring quiet. The history of Mountain Meadows is less a grand narrative and more a series of quiet occupations. For generations, this land has been a place for those seeking sustenance from its sparse but honest bounty. Ranching, more than anything else, has defined the economic pulse of Mountain Meadows, with cattle grazing on the hardy grasses that somehow find their way through the rocky soil. The occasional weathered barn or a fence line stretching toward an unseen horizon are the enduring markers of this connection to the land, a quiet testament to lives lived in step with the seasons. There's a distinct lack of fanfare here; life moves with a deliberate, unhurried pace, dictated by the sun and the needs of the livestock, a rhythm that has changed little over the decades.
Live animated radar for Mountain Meadows 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 | Mountain Meadows, Kern County, California |
| Coordinates | 35.10374°N, 118.438716°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 93561 |
| Area Code | 760 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Mountain Meadows, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Mountain Meadows, 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 Mountain Meadows includes coordinates 35.103740°N, 118.438716°W, situated in Kern County. ZIP code 93561. Telephone area code: 760. 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.
