Culdesac, Idaho Weather
Culdesac, Idaho — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Culdesac, Nez Perce County.
Full aviation weather for Culdesac is published on the Lewiston Nez Perce County Airport (KLWS) page, 26 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. 5 airfields within reach of Culdesac 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 Culdesac: Cottonwood Municipal Airport (KS84) 46 km · Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport (KPUW) 53 km · Kamiah Municipal Airport (KS73) 54 km · Salmon Bar Airport (KO48) 58 km
Conditions reported at KLWS describe the airfield itself. Weather 26 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Culdesac specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Culdesac.
About Culdesac, Idaho
Culdesac rests in a valley where the Clearwater River's gentle embrace has shaped the land for millennia. It lies 16.7 miles east of Lewiston, ID (from Lewiston, ID: bearing 100°T), and is situated 6.6 miles east-south-east of Lapwai. The rolling hills, cloaked in a patchwork of greens and golds depending on the season, cradle the small settlement, their slopes etched with the faint trails of ancient watercourses. Sunlight, when it breaks through the often-clouded Idaho sky, has a peculiar, almost honeyed quality here, illuminating the weathered wood of farmsteads and casting long shadows across the fields. The air itself carries a crispness, a blend of damp earth, sun-baked grass, and the distant, faint scent of pine from the higher elevations. This quiet corner of Nez Perce County, Culdesac, has long been a place defined by its agricultural bounty. The fertile soil, a legacy of glacial deposits and river sediment, has sustained generations of farmers, their livelihoods tied to the planting and harvesting of wheat, barley, and a variety of fruits that thrive in the region's temperate climate. Traces of the Nez Perce people, who first navigated these waterways and valleys, linger in the landscape, a silent testament to their enduring connection to this earth. The economy, while modest, hums with the steady pulse of rural life, the local co-op and general store serving as quiet centers of commerce and social gathering, where the day's news is exchanged over coffee and the rhythm of the seasons dictates the pace of life.
Live animated radar for Culdesac 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.
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| Location | Culdesac, Nez Perce County, Idaho |
| Coordinates | 46.37461°N, 116.673204°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 83524 |
| Area Code | 208 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Culdesac, Idaho Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Culdesac, Idaho, 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 Culdesac includes coordinates 46.374610°N, 116.673204°W, situated in Nez Perce County. ZIP code 83524. Telephone area code: 208. 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.
