Gabbs, Nevada Weather
Gabbs, Nevada — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Gabbs, Nye County.
Full aviation weather for Gabbs is published on the Gabbs Airport (KGAB) 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.
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.
Conditions reported at KGAB describe the airfield itself. Weather 7 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Gabbs specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Gabbs.
About Gabbs, Nevada
Gabbs lies in a vast expanse of high desert, a place where the earth itself seems to exhale a dry, mineral scent. It lies 101.1 miles east of Carson City, NV (from Carson City, NV: bearing 101°T), and is situated 44.7 miles east-north-east of Hawthorne. The landscape is a study in muted tones: ochre-stained hills ripple towards a horizon often softened by heat haze, their flanks scored by ephemeral washes that carry the memory of infrequent rain. Sparse sagebrush, its silver-green leaves brittle to the touch, clings to the sandy soil, punctuated by the stoic resilience of yucca and the occasional, wind-sculpted juniper. The sky here is immense, a boundless canvas where clouds drift like forgotten thoughts, and at dusk, it bleeds into a spectrum of bruised purples and fading oranges, painting the stark terrain with a transient, spectral beauty. The air, when it moves, carries the whisper of distant mountains and the faint hum of the earth’s deep quiet. This is a place forged by the earth's buried riches, its history inextricably linked to the veins of ore that pulse beneath its surface. Gabbs emerged from the promise of minerals, a small settlement that grew around the extraction of magnesite and later, brucite, a testament to the persistent human drive to uncover what lies hidden. The local economy, though lean, still feels the echoes of its mining past, with a hardy resilience born of enduring the unforgiving climate and the boom-and-bust cycles inherent to resource extraction. The silence of the surrounding desert can feel profound, broken only by the occasional rumble of a truck or the distant call of a hawk, a stark reminder of the rugged independence that defines life in Gabbs.
Live animated radar for Gabbs 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 | Gabbs, Nye County, Nevada |
| Coordinates | 38.868813°N, 117.92206°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 89409 |
| Area Code | 775 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Gabbs, Nevada Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Gabbs, Nevada, 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 Gabbs includes coordinates 38.868813°N, 117.922060°W, situated in Nye County. ZIP code 89409. Telephone area code: 775. 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.
