Rackerby, California Weather
Rackerby, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Rackerby, Yuba County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Rackerby. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Rackerby is published on the Oroville Municipal Airport (KOVE) page, 25 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 Rackerby 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 Rackerby: Beale Air Force Base (KBAB) 35 km · Nevada County Airport (KGOO) 38 km · Sutter County Airport (KO52) 42 km · Yuba County Airport (KMYV) 43 km · Blue Canyon Nyack Airport (KBLU) 57 km
Conditions reported at KOVE describe the airfield itself. Weather 25 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Rackerby specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Rackerby.
About Rackerby, California
Rackerby lies in a fold of Yuba County's sun-baked hills, where the earth, ochre and dusty, stretches towards horizons that seem to burn with an internal fire. It lies 25.4 miles north-east of Yuba City, CA (from Yuba City, CA: bearing 35°T), and is situated 8.6 miles south-east of Oroville East. The landscape here is a testament to resilience, a place where scrub oak and manzanita cling to the slopes, their branches gnarled like the hands of old miners. Dry creek beds, like veins on a weathered face, snake through the terrain, hinting at the ephemeral power of water in this thirsty country. The air itself carries a dry, almost palpable weight, scented with sagebrush and the distant promise of pine. The houses, scattered with a deliberate sparseness, seem to have grown from the land rather than being imposed upon it, their colors muted against the vibrant, unforgiving palette of the California foothills. The story of Rackerby is etched in the veins of its soil, a history bound to the gold fever that once pulsed through these hills. Though the grand rush has long since subsided, the echoes of pickaxes and the dreams of fortune still seem to linger in the quiet stillness. The local economy, once fueled by the earth's hidden treasures, now finds its lifeblood in the hardy cultivation of walnuts and the quiet hum of agricultural enterprise. Visitors might find a peculiar beauty in the stark simplicity of Rackerby, a place where the passage of time feels less like a hurried march and more like a slow, inexorable tide. The evenings here are particularly striking, as the setting sun bleeds across the sky, painting the already vivid landscape in even deeper hues of crimson and gold, a fleeting masterpiece before the cool, star-dusted night descends.
Live animated radar for Rackerby 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 | Rackerby, Yuba County, California |
| Coordinates | 39.439611°N, 121.341352°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 95972, 95914 |
| Area Code | 530 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Rackerby, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Rackerby, 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 Rackerby includes coordinates 39.439611°N, 121.341352°W, situated in Yuba County. ZIP code 95972, 95914. 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.
