Seneca, Oregon Weather
Seneca, Oregon — 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 Seneca, Grant County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Seneca. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Seneca is published on the Grant County Regional Airport / Ogilvie Field (KGCD) page, 30 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 KGCD describe the airfield itself. Weather 30 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Seneca specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Seneca.
About Seneca, Oregon
Seneca sprawls across a high desert plateau, a collection of weathered buildings clinging to the edge of immense, rolling sagebrush country. It lies 109.5 miles east of Redmond, OR (from Redmond, OR: bearing 94°T), and is situated 19.5 miles south of John Day. The air here carries a constant, dry whisper, a sound that seems to emanate from the very soil, and when the sun dips below the distant, bruised-purple mountains, the light bleeds across the vast sky in hues of ochre and rose, painting the vast, treeless expanse with a fleeting, almost mournful beauty. The land itself is a study in muted tones – the dusty greens of hardy grasses, the pale grey of scattered juniper, and the endless, pale blue of the heavens, broken only by the occasional, stark silhouette of a lone fence post or a weathered barn. This remote corner of Grant County was once a bustling hub, a place where the timber industry fueled a lively economy, leaving behind a legacy of sawmills and the ghosts of hardworking men who shaped the surrounding forests. The old railroad grade, now a faint scar across the landscape, speaks of a time when Seneca was more connected, when the rhythmic clatter of trains brought supplies and carried lumber to distant markets. Today, while the logging trucks are fewer, a quiet resilience persists, an unspoken understanding of the land and its cycles that defines the character of Seneca. The open spaces still hold a potent draw, a sense of raw, untamed wilderness that draws those seeking a different kind of life, one measured not by the ticking of clocks, but by the slow turning of the seasons and the enduring, sun-baked silence.
Live animated radar for Seneca 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 | Seneca, Grant County, Oregon |
| Coordinates | 44.134598°N, 118.971614°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 97873 |
| Area Code | 541 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Seneca, Oregon Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Seneca, Oregon, 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 Seneca includes coordinates 44.134598°N, 118.971614°W, situated in Grant County. ZIP code 97873. Telephone area code: 541. 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.
