Forecast, hour by hour
Temperature
For
The temperature ahead across the lower 48, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico, hour by hour, for seven days: warm and cold air on the move.
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Forecast map / Forecast, each day
Forecast highs map
Over Kimballton, Iowa, where the map opens. The whole country
The highest temperature of each day for the next seven days: where heat builds and where cold air holds. How to read it.
The rings are the storms the radars detect, the larger ring a severe one; each line runs to where its storm will be in an hour if it keeps its present speed and heading. Rotation and hail are what the radars detect and the analysis measures, not warnings: the official watches and warnings in force are drawn on the map in their own colours and set out in full under Alerts.
What the highs map shows
The highest temperature of each day for the next seven days, the hours from 7 AM to 7 PM Eastern Standard Time across the country. Where the heat builds, and where cold air holds.
How to read it
- Below 32 F
- A day that stays below freezing.
- 32 to 60 F
- A cool day.
- 60 to 85 F
- A mild to warm day.
- 85 to 95 F
- A hot day.
- Over 95 F
- Heat that harms; over 105 F, extreme heat.
What it is for
- See the hottest days of the week, and where.
- Plan work and play outdoors around the heat.
- Watch a heat dome build and break.
How it is made
The forecast maps are drawn from the national blend of the forecast models: the models joined into one forecast and corrected against what each place has measured, on a grid 1.6 miles across, the forecast the country’s forecasters start from. Each of its main runs, four a day, is read whole, laid onto the same grid of latitude and longitude as the radar at 2.8 miles a cell, and played forward from now.
A frame each day for 7 days, played from today. As data: /radar/now.json?show=fhi, the times of its frames.
In the Field Book
- Heat wave and heat domeFB-EVT-130
- Radiation budgetFB-ENG-007
Over a state
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With it
Severe AlertsWeather by stateForecast accuracyInstrument atlas
Beside it
Forecast, each night
Lows
For
The lowest temperature of each night for the next seven days: frost, freeze, and warm nights that bring no relief.
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