Charleston, WV 25330 Weather

Kanawha County3:27 PM EDT38.35°N, 81.63°W

Current conditions

Sunny
66°
Sunny
Feels like 66°
High 67°·Low 40°
WindN 5 mph gusts 10 mph
Humidity40%
Dew point41°
Visibility9.9 mi
Cloud cover3%
UV index3 Moderate
Sunrise7:43 AM
Sunset6:40 PM

Forecast for this hour (no station report in the last two hours)

Forecast

10-day

  • This Afternoon

    Sunny, with a high near 67. North wind around 5 mph.

  • Tonight

    Areas of fog after 3am. Mostly clear, with a low around 40. North wind 0 to 3 mph.

  • Friday

    Areas of fog before 11am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 69. North wind 0 to 3 mph.

National Weather Service forecast updated 53 min ago.

Hourly

Hourly forecast
  1. Now Sunny 66°
  2. 4 PM Sunny 66°
  3. 5 PM Sunny 66°
  4. 6 PM Clear 62°
  5. 7 PM Clear 57°
  6. 8 PM Clear 50°
  7. 9 PM Clear 48°
  8. 10 PM Mostly Clear 47°
  9. 11 PM Mostly Clear 45°
  10. Fri12 AM Mostly Clear 44°
  11. 1 AM Mostly Clear 43°
  12. 2 AM Mostly Clear 43°
  13. 3 AM Areas Of Fog 43°
  14. 4 AM Areas Of Fog 42°
  15. 5 AM Areas Of Fog 41°
  16. 6 AM Areas Of Fog 41°
  17. 7 AM Areas Of Fog 41°
  18. 8 AM Areas Of Fog 41°
  19. 9 AM Areas Of Fog 42°
  20. 10 AM Areas Of Fog 46°
  21. 11 AM Mostly Sunny 51°
  22. 12 PM Sunny 58°
  23. 1 PM Sunny 64°
  24. 2 PM Sunny 67°

10-day forecast

Details
  1. TodayOct 22 Sunny Sunny40°67°
  2. FriOct 23 Areas Of Fog then Mostly Sunny Areas Of Fog then Mostly Sunny44°69°
  3. SatOct 24 Patchy Fog then Sunny Patchy Fog then Sunny43°72°
  4. SunOct 25 Sunny Sunny43°72°
  5. MonOct 26 Sunny Sunny45°73°
  6. TueOct 27 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny49°72°
  7. WedOct 28 Partly Sunny Partly Sunny49°72°
  8. ThuOct 29 Partly cloudy Partly cloudy0.02 in52°72°
  9. FriOct 30 Sunny Sunny38°56°
  10. SatOct 31 Cloudy Cloudy34°65°

Days after the National Weather Service's seven are MET Norway's outlook, a computer model with no forecaster's review.

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Air quality

52
Moderate
Fine particles (PM2.5)

Acceptable. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting prolonged outdoor exertion.

Charleston, WV reporting area · 1 hr ago. Data from AirNow (EPA and its state, local and tribal partners); preliminary and subject to change.

Sun & moon

Sunrise 7:43 AM
Sunset 6:40 PM
Daylight 10 h 57 min (−2 min 20 s tomorrow)
Waxing Gibbous · 87% lit
Moonrise 4:40 PM Moonset 3:51 AM
Full moon Oct 26 New moon Nov 9

Almanac

Monthly
Normal high / low67° / 43°
Record high88° (1920)
Record low23° (1952)
Wettest0.91 in (1983)
Yesterday70° / 37°
Month to date2.45 in (normal 1.97 in)

Charleston Area, records since 1892. Normals 1991–2020. Data from NOAA's Regional Climate Centers (ACIS).

Nearby

Forecasters' discussion

From the National Weather Service office in RLX, issued 2 hrs ago

What Has Changed

No significant changes have been made to the ongoing forecast, and benign weather continues to be forecast for the next 7 days.

Key Messages

1) Beyond the typical bouts of morning river valley fog, dry weather will dominate the forecast for the next 7 days, along with some patchy morning frost across the higher terrain.

Discussion

KEY MESSAGE 1...

In the mid/upper-levels, an Omega Block remains anchored across the Lower 48, with high pressure expected to continue dominating the forecast across the CWA for the next 7 days. The apex of the subtropical ridge, which is currently centered across the Great Plains, will gradually shift eastward over the next couple of days, as a high-amplitude, positively-tilted trough digs into the Desert Southwest. The superposition of the subtropical ridge relative to the CWA will maintain convergent flow aloft, keeping the formation of even diurnally-driven boundary-layer cu from occurring each afternoon. Excellent radiational cooling at night will result in the usual development of fog across the river valleys, with visibilities falling to one-quarter mile at times; and fog of any kind will erode by 14-15Z each morning through the weekend. Some slight reductions were made to the dewpoints for the forthcoming afternoons due to the full insolation, along with bias-corrected tuning of the overnight lows tonight and Friday night due to the arrival of a modifying mP airmass trailing the decayed front/surface trough that is expected propagate through the region later this afternoon and tonight. The arrival of this surface boundary should keep the development of frost during the nighttime hours in check; however, patchy frost cannot be ruled out across the higher terrain tonight and beyond.

Aviation

VFR will prevail through late tonight, before river valley fog develops once again near and after 23/08Z. Fog will dissipate by 23/14-15Z. SIGWX NIL until further notice otherwise, with light, northerly winds today transitioning towards the northeast Friday.

FORECAST CONFIDENCE AND ALTERNATE SCENARIOS THROUGH 18Z FRIDAY...

FORECAST CONFIDENCE: High.

ALTERNATE SCENARIOS: The coverage and extent of fog tonight may vary from the forecast.

EXPERIMENTAL TABLE OF FLIGHT CATEGORY OBJECTIVELY SHOWS CONSISTENCY OF WFO FORECAST TO AVAILABLE MODEL INFORMATION: H = HIGH: TAF CONSISTENT WITH ALL MODELS OR ALL BUT ONE MODEL. M = MEDIUM: TAF HAS VARYING LEVEL OF CONSISTENCY WITH MODELS. L = LOW: TAF INCONSISTENT WITH ALL MODELS OR ALL BUT ONE MODEL.

UTC 1HRLY 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 00 01 02 03 04 EDT 1HRLY 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 00 CRW CONSISTENCY H H H H H H M H H H H H HTS CONSISTENCY H H H H H H H H H H H H BKW CONSISTENCY H H H H H H H H H H H H EKN CONSISTENCY H H H H H H H H H H H L PKB CONSISTENCY H H H H H H H H H H H H CKB CONSISTENCY H H H H H H H H H H H H

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