Gerlach, Nevada Weather
Gerlach, Nevada — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Gerlach, Washoe County.
Full aviation weather for Gerlach is published on the Amedee Army Air Field (KAHC) page, 80 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 KAHC describe the airfield itself. Weather 80 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Gerlach specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Gerlach.
About Gerlach, Nevada
Gerlach sits where the vast, cracked earth of the Black Rock Desert begins to breathe, a lonely outpost against horizons that stretch into a shimmering, ochre haze. It lies 80.0 miles north-north-east of Sparks, NV (from Sparks, NV: bearing 15°T). The land here is a study in stark contrasts: the skeletal remains of ancient lakebeds, now bone-dry playas, stretch for miles, their surfaces rippled by the wind into an alien topography. In the distance, the jagged teeth of the mountains, dusted with the pale green of hardy sagebrush, claw at a sky that, by day, burns a relentless, pure blue, and by night, spills a velvet darkness studded with a million pinpricks of starlight. The air itself carries a fine, dry grit, a constant whisper of the desert's immense, patient power, and the silence, when it descends, is not an absence of sound but a presence, deep and resonant. The history of Gerlach is etched into the very dust that swirls around its few, resilient buildings, a story tied to the relentless pursuit of wealth and the stark realities of survival in this unforgiving climate. Once a bustling hub for the mining operations that scarred the surrounding hillsides, its fortunes have since ebbed and flowed with the discovery and depletion of ore. The local economy, a fragile thing, now largely depends on the transient traffic of travelers drawn to the stark beauty of the Black Rock Desert, the vast, flat expanse that has become synonymous with audacious experiments in art and communal living. The singular, enduring spirit of Gerlach is evident in its hardy inhabitants, a testament to a deep-rooted resilience born of facing the elements and carving a life from the edge of the wilderness.
Live animated radar for Gerlach 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 | Gerlach, Washoe County, Nevada |
| Coordinates | 40.651568°N, 119.355186°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 89412 |
| Area Code | 775 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Gerlach, Nevada Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Gerlach, 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 Gerlach includes coordinates 40.651568°N, 119.355186°W, situated in Washoe County. ZIP code 89412. 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.
