Winter Haven, FL 33880 Weather

Polk County9:51 PM EDT27.99°N, 81.76°W

Current conditions

Clear
73°
Clear
Feels like 73°
High 81° Thursday·Low 60° tonight
WindNE 9 mph
Humidity65%
Dew point61°
Pressure30.05 inHg
Visibility10.0 mi
Cloud cover5%
UV index0 Low
Sunrise7:32 AM
Sunset6:53 PM

Observed at Bartow Municipal · 1 hr ago

Forecast

10-day

  • Tonight

    Mostly clear, with a low around 60. North northeast wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

  • Thursday

    Sunny, with a high near 81. North northeast wind around 10 mph.

  • Thursday Night

    Mostly clear, with a low around 59. North northeast wind around 9 mph.

National Weather Service forecast updated 7 hrs ago.

Hourly

Hourly forecast
  1. Now Clear 70°
  2. 10 PM Clear 69°
  3. 11 PM Clear 68°
  4. Thu12 AM Clear 66°
  5. 1 AM Clear 65°
  6. 2 AM Clear 64°
  7. 3 AM Clear 63°
  8. 4 AM Clear 62°
  9. 5 AM Clear 62°
  10. 6 AM Sunny 61°
  11. 7 AM Sunny 60°
  12. 8 AM Sunny 61°
  13. 9 AM Sunny 64°
  14. 10 AM Sunny 70°
  15. 11 AM Sunny 73°
  16. 12 PM Sunny 76°
  17. 1 PM Sunny 78°
  18. 2 PM Sunny 78°
  19. 3 PM Sunny 80°
  20. 4 PM Sunny 79°
  21. 5 PM Sunny 79°
  22. 6 PM Mostly Clear 77°
  23. 7 PM Mostly Clear 72°
  24. 8 PM Mostly Clear 70°

10-day forecast

Details
  1. TodayOct 21 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny60°82°
  2. ThuOct 22 Sunny Sunny59°81°
  3. FriOct 23 Sunny Sunny62°82°
  4. SatOct 24 Sunny Sunny10%66°82°
  5. SunOct 25 Sunny Sunny13%64°81°
  6. MonOct 26 Sunny Sunny63°81°
  7. TueOct 27 Sunny Sunny63°82°
  8. WedOct 28 Mostly sunny Mostly sunny0.04 in67°81°
  9. ThuOct 29 Light rain Light rain0.03 in68°78°
  10. FriOct 30 Partly cloudy Partly cloudy0.02 in66°82°

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

44
Good
Ozone

Air quality is satisfactory, and air pollution poses little or no risk.

Forecast

  • WedModerate
  • ThuModerate
  • FriModerate

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

Sun & moon

Sunrise 7:32 AM
Sunset 6:53 PM
Daylight 11 h 21 min (−1 min 32 s tomorrow)
Waxing Gibbous · 81% lit
Moonrise 4:07 PM Moonset 3:02 AM
Full moon Oct 26 New moon Nov 9

Almanac

Monthly
Normal high / low85° / 67°
Record high92° (1993)
Record low44° (1989)
Wettest2.30 in (1952)
Yesterday83° / 62°
Month to date4.43 in (normal 1.61 in)

Winter Haven Area, records since 1941. Normals 1991–2020. Data from NOAA's Regional Climate Centers (ACIS).

Nearby

Forecasters' discussion

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

Key Messages

- Hazardous marine conditions over the eastern Gulf waters over the next several days, mainly during the evening and overnight hours.

- A cooler and drier airmass with below average temperatures will continue through most of the week.

Update

Issued at 725 PM EDT Wed Oct 21 2026

Previous forecast reasoning remains unchanged with no adjustments planned for the evening update. CONUS U/A pattern remains rather amplified with a cutoff low offshore the SW U.S., strong W/C U.S. ridge, and a deep trough over the E Seaboard, with surface high pressure centered over the E U.S. extending south into the state maintaining occasionally breezy E/NE winds and generally dry, stable conditions under partly cloudy skies locally. Latest regional ACARS soundings and meso-analysis show PWATs remain right around 1 inch, or just above the 25th percentile, indicative of the relatively drier air mass that remains in place over the state. Slightly below normal temps continue overnight through Thursday, with morning lows from the lower 50s north to the lower 60s south, and afternoon highs from the upper 70s north to the lower/mid 80s south.

Discussion

Issued at 220 PM EDT Wed Oct 21 2026 The pattern aloft this afternoon features ridging over the southern U.S./Mexico with a low off the mid-Atlantic coast and troughing extending southward over Florida. At the surface, high pressure is settled north of the state with low pressure moving up the eastern seaboard. This setup will keep relatively cool and dry conditions in place through the next few days.

For Friday into the weekend, a cutoff low tries to form south of the region before opening up and moving northeast while a surface low attempts to organize along an old frontal boundary near the Bahamas. This pattern shift will allow northeast winds to increase once again as the pressure gradient tightens and will also lead to an increase in moisture for the southern part of the state. For the local forecast area, this will mean a slight uptick in rain chances mainly over southwest Florida and parts of the interior this weekend into early next week along with an increase in humidity. Highs will continue a few degrees below normal (closer to normal for southwest Florida) and lows will remain below normal as well but then increase by a few degrees for the latter half of the forecast period.

Aviation

(00Z TAFS) Issued at 725 PM EDT Wed Oct 21 2026

Dry VFR expected through the period with generally NE flow continuing across terminals, occasionally breezy.

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