Palouse, Washington Weather
Palouse, 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 Palouse, Whitman County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Palouse. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Palouse is published on the Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport (KPUW) page, 19 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 Palouse 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 Palouse: Lower Granite State Airport (K00W) 38 km · Rosalia Municipal Airport (K72S) 45 km · Jack A Buell Airport (KS72) 60 km · Lewiston Nez Perce County Airport (KLWS) 60 km
Conditions reported at KPUW describe the airfield itself. Weather 19 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Palouse specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Palouse.
About Palouse, Washington
Palouse rests in a landscape that seems perpetually sculpted by the wind and the sun, a place where the earth itself rises and falls in sweeping, golden swells. It lies 12.8 miles north-north-west of Moscow, ID (from Moscow, ID: bearing 344°T), and is situated 8.4 miles west of Potlatch. The rolling hills, cloaked in the rich, dark soil of the Palouse prairie, stretch out to horizons that feel impossibly vast, particularly in the soft, diffused light of late afternoon. Here, grain fields, a patchwork of ripening wheat and barley, shimmer like an endless, textured sea, their colors shifting with the breeze. The air itself carries the clean, dry scent of growing things, a perfume that mingles with the faintest hint of dust kicked up by the infrequent passage of a distant truck. This is a region where the rhythm of the seasons dictates the lifeblood of its people, where the bounty of the land has shaped its history and its economy for generations. Farming is not merely an industry here; it is the very essence of Palouse, the enduring legacy of pioneers who saw in this fertile expanse the promise of sustenance. The town itself, a cluster of buildings that seem to hunker down against the immensity of the sky, retains a quiet dignity, a testament to its enduring agricultural roots. While the wider world may rush, life in Palouse unfolds with a gentle, unhurried cadence, a reflection of the patient growth of the crops that surround it.
Live animated radar for Palouse 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 | Palouse, Whitman County, Washington |
| Coordinates | 46.910169°N, 117.075725°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 99161 |
| Area Code | 509 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Palouse, Washington Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Palouse, 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 Palouse includes coordinates 46.910169°N, 117.075725°W, situated in Whitman County. ZIP code 99161. 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.
