Owyhee, Nevada Weather
Owyhee, Nevada — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Owyhee, Elko County.
Full aviation weather for Owyhee is published on the Owyhee Airport (K10U) 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. 3 airfields within reach of Owyhee 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 Owyhee: Grasmere Airport (KU91) 51 km · Stevens-Crosby Airport (K08U) 52 km
Conditions reported at K10U describe the airfield itself. Weather 7 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Owyhee specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Owyhee.
About Owyhee, Nevada
Owyhee stretches across a broad, sun-baked basin, a place where the vastness of the northern Nevada sky presses down on a landscape of sagebrush and scattered juniper. It lies 93.9 miles west-south-west of Twin Falls, ID (from Twin Falls, ID: bearing 244°T). The earth here is a palette of muted ochres and faded greens, a stark beauty that speaks of resilience and the long, slow work of wind and water. Distant mountains, their peaks softened by atmospheric haze, form a ragged horizon, and the air, when it moves, carries the dry, clean scent of desert flora. Life in Owyhee feels etched into this immensity, a quiet persistence against a backdrop of immense geological time. This remote outpost in Elko County carries the echoes of a frontier past, its early days tied to the ebb and flow of mining and ranching. The land itself has been the primary currency, supporting generations of families who have learned to coax a living from its unforgiving soil. While large-scale mining operations have largely receded, the spirit of self-reliance remains, evident in the hardy livestock that graze the sparse rangelands and the quiet hum of everyday life. Owyhee is a place where the simple act of watching the sun dip below the horizon, painting the sky in fiery hues, feels like a profound event, a daily affirmation of the enduring spirit of the high desert.
Live animated radar for Owyhee 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 | Owyhee, Elko County, Nevada |
| Coordinates | 41.947679°N, 116.098709°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 89832 |
| Area Code | 775 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Owyhee, Nevada Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Owyhee, 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 Owyhee includes coordinates 41.947679°N, 116.098709°W, situated in Elko County. ZIP code 89832. 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.
