Terrace Heights, Washington Weather
Terrace Heights, Washington — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Terrace Heights, Yakima County.
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About Terrace Heights, Washington
Terrace Heights unfolds across a landscape sculpted by the patient hand of water and wind, where the sun, when it deigns to break through the high desert haze, casts a pale, almost ethereal glow. It lies 3.2 miles east of Yakima, WA (from Yakima, WA: bearing 85°T), and is situated 5.4 miles south-east of Selah. The terrain rises gently, a series of broad, sun-baked shoulders that roll towards the distant, blue-hazed wall of the Cascades. Fields of winter wheat, a muted gold even in the early spring, stretch out like rumpled blankets, punctuated by the darker green of newly planted orchards. The air carries the dry, clean scent of dust and distant sagebrush, a scent that settles deep in the lungs. Even the shadows seem to have a certain weight here, lengthening like slow sighs as the day wears on, painting the land in broad strokes of ochre and umber. The history of Terrace Heights is inextricably tied to the thirsty earth and the relentless drive to coax life from it. This is land that was once the domain of sagebrush and sun, until irrigation canals, those veins of life, brought the promise of abundance. The local economy still hums with the steady beat of agriculture, the sweet scent of apples and cherries a constant reminder of the bounty that flows from the soil. You can see it in the quiet hum of tractors in the fields and the steady flow of produce trucks heading towards market. There’s a palpable sense of resilience here, a quiet strength born from generations who understood the land’s demands and answered them with hard work and ingenuity. The distinctive character of Terrace Heights is not in grand monuments, but in the subtle persistence of life, in the way the light catches the dust motes dancing in the afternoon sun, and in the enduring scent of the earth after a rare summer rain.
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| Location | Terrace Heights, Yakima County, Washington |
| Coordinates | 46.606238°N, 120.439785°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 98901 |
| Area Code | 509 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Terrace Heights, Washington Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Terrace Heights, Washington, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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 Terrace Heights includes coordinates 46.606238°N, 120.439785°W, situated in Yakima County. ZIP code 98901. 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. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.
