Lamont, Washington Weather
Lamont, Washington — 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 Lamont, Whitman County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Lamont. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Lamont is published on the Rosalia Municipal Airport (K72S) page, 37 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 Lamont 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 Lamont: Pru Field (K33S) 38 km · Fairchild Air Force Base (KSKA) 50 km · Davenport Municipal Airport (K68S) 54 km · Spokane International Airport (KGEG) 54 km
Conditions reported at K72S describe the airfield itself. Weather 37 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Lamont specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Lamont.
About Lamont, Washington
Lamont rests in a wide, shallow basin where the earth unfurls in soft, rolling swells. It lies 38.7 miles south-west of Spokane, WA (from Spokane, WA: bearing 216°T), and is situated 7.6 miles south-south-east of Sprague. The landscape here is a study in muted greens and ochres, broken only by the stark, dark punctuation of distant farmsteads and the occasional, wind-scoured grove of trees. The sky, vast and often a brilliant, almost startling blue, seems to press down on the land, giving the horizon a peculiar intimacy. In the late afternoon, the sun casts long, languid shadows that stretch and distort the contours of the fields, lending a profound stillness to the air, a quiet breath held before the coming twilight. The history of Lamont is etched not in grand monuments, but in the persistent cultivation of this dry land. For generations, the economy here has been tethered to the golden grain that carpets the surrounding hills, a testament to the resilience of those who chose to coax sustenance from its fertile, yet demanding, soil. Remnants of earlier homesteads, their weathered wood bleached silver by the sun and wind, occasionally appear like forgotten bones on the prairie, whispers of lives lived out under this immense sky. The rhythm of Lamont is dictated by the seasons and the harvest, a slow, deliberate pulse that beats with the turning of the earth and the honest labor of its people.
Live animated radar for Lamont 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 | Lamont, Whitman County, Washington |
| Coordinates | 47.201549°N, 117.905221°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 99017 |
| Area Code | 509 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Lamont, Washington Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Lamont, Washington, 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 Lamont includes coordinates 47.201549°N, 117.905221°W, situated in Whitman County. ZIP code 99017. Telephone area code: 509. 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.
