Kennewick, WA 99338 Weather

Benton County3:38 PM PDT46.16°N, 119.26°W
Freeze Watch from 11:00 PM Fri until 10:00 AM Sat

Current conditions

Rain Showers Likely
57°
Rain Showers Likely
Feels like 57°
High 59°·Low 45°
WindS 5 mph
Humidity61%
Dew point44°
Visibility9.8 mi
Cloud cover93%
UV index1 Low
Sunrise7:24 AM
Sunset6:00 PM

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

Forecast

10-day

  • Today

    Rain showers likely after 11am. Mostly cloudy. High near 59, with temperatures falling to around 56 in the afternoon. Southwest wind 2 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.

  • Tonight

    A slight chance of rain showers before 11pm. Mostly cloudy. Low around 45, with temperatures rising to around 48 overnight. Southwest wind 5 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.

  • Friday

    Mostly sunny, with a high near 62. Southwest wind 7 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.

National Weather Service forecast updated 11 hrs ago.

Hourly

Hourly forecast
  1. Now Rain Showers Likely 57°55%
  2. 4 PM Rain Showers Likely 57°55%
  3. 5 PM Slight Chance Rain Showers 56°18%
  4. 6 PM Slight Chance Rain Showers 55°18%
  5. 7 PM Slight Chance Rain Showers 52°18%
  6. 8 PM Slight Chance Rain Showers 52°15%
  7. 9 PM Slight Chance Rain Showers 52°15%
  8. 10 PM Slight Chance Rain Showers 52°15%
  9. 11 PM Mostly Cloudy 52°
  10. Fri12 AM Mostly Cloudy 52°
  11. 1 AM Mostly Cloudy 52°
  12. 2 AM Partly Cloudy 51°
  13. 3 AM Mostly Cloudy 51°
  14. 4 AM Mostly Cloudy 49°
  15. 5 AM Mostly Cloudy 48°
  16. 6 AM Partly Sunny 47°
  17. 7 AM Partly Sunny 46°
  18. 8 AM Partly Sunny 45°
  19. 9 AM Partly Sunny 48°
  20. 10 AM Partly Sunny 52°
  21. 11 AM Sunny 53°
  22. 12 PM Sunny 56°
  23. 1 PM Sunny 58°
  24. 2 PM Sunny 59°

Daily forecast

Details
  1. TodayOct 22 Rain Showers Likely Rain Showers Likely55%45°59°
  2. FriOct 23 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny37°62°
  3. SatOct 24 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny39°57°
  4. SunOct 25 Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Rain Showers Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Rain Showers20%40°57°
  5. MonOct 26 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny21%38°57°
  6. TueOct 27 Slight Chance Rain Showers then Mostly Sunny Slight Chance Rain Showers then Mostly Sunny15%38°56°
  7. WedOct 28 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny38°55°
  8. ThuOct 29 Sunny Sunny39°57°
  9. FriOct 30 Partly cloudy Partly cloudy37°63°

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

68
Moderate
Fine particles (PM2.5)

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

Forecast

  • ThuModerate
  • FriGood

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

Sun & moon

Sunrise 7:24 AM
Sunset 6:00 PM
Daylight 10 h 35 min (−3 min 5 s tomorrow)
Waxing Gibbous · 88% lit
Moonrise 4:15 PM Moonset 3:22 AM
Full moon Oct 26 New moon Nov 9

Almanac

Monthly
Normal high / low62° / 36°
Record high81° (2003)
Record low24° (1984)
Wettest0.34 in (2021)
Yesterday64° / 34°
Month to date<0.01 in (normal 0.41 in)

Tri-Cities Area, records since 1894. Normals 1991–2020. Data from NOAA's Regional Climate Centers (ACIS).

Nearby

Forecasters' discussion

From the National Weather Service office in PDT, issued 4 hrs ago

Key Messages

- Return of showers and isolated thunderstorms to the eastern mountains Today

- Breezy to gusty winds developing across the area Tonight into Friday morning, with strongest winds through the Cascade gaps

- Moderate-high confidence (65-80%) in freezing morning temperatures across lower elevation area Saturday

Discussion

An upper trough and a cold front will move across the region later Today and Tonight, with limited weather impacts from winds, rains and convection. A limited convective threat today as CAPEs over the eastern mountains broadly 100-200 J/kg and higher elevated 400 J/kg pose an isolated lightning risk. Initially, the REFs is trending toward an initial warm advection induced swath of showers supported by the REFS mean lighting fields of 0.02-0.05 flashes/ sq KM/5 mins. This feature is focused across the John Day Basin at 8 am, and advecting across Pendleton/Walla Walla toward the Tri-Cities between about 9 and 11 am. The time window for best rain accumulations is between about 3 and 12z Friday (8 pm This evening - 5 am Tomorrow) when 3 hour probability matched means show areas in excess of a quarter inch every 3 hours across the Foothills Blues Mountains eastward into Wallowa county. The HREF 24 hr PMMs are at about 0.75 to 1 inch QPF across these areas and at least widespread wetting rain over the entirely of the eastern mountains.

A wind advisory remains in effect across the Kittitas and Eastern Columbia river Gorge zones for increasing wind This Evening through much of the overnight as the post frontal pressure isallobaric pressure rises cause channeling effects leading to NBMs probabilities for gusts in excess of 40 mph averaging 50 to 80 percent, particularly around The Dalles and Ellensburg.

Lastly, cold temperatures will return on the backside of this exiting weather system Friday night into Saturday morning, bringing potential for growing season ending sub freezing temperatures across the lower elevations of the Kittitas/Yakima valley, Blue Mt foothills and the Columbia Basin.

Aviation

VFR conditions expected through the period. A system passing to the south will bring rain shower impacts to sites RDM/BDN through 00Z, PSC through 02Z, and sites PDT/ALW through 08-09Z tonight. BKN-OVC CIGS are expected to lower after sunset at sites PDT/ALW this evening, but should remain AOA 4kft AGL. A cold front passage will bring breezy conditions to sites DLS/PDT/RDM/BDN/YKM. At site DLS, winds will increase to 15-25kts with gusts up to 40kts after 22Z. Sites RDM/BDN will see winds increase to 12-15kts with gusts to around 20kts between 00Z-13Z. Site YKM winds will increase to 12-15kts with gusts to around 23kts between 03Z-15Z. Short-term model guidance is indicating low level wind shear impacts up to 2kft AGL between 03Z-15Z tonight at site YKM, but confidence is low-moderate(30-40%) in persistent wind shear impacts over the site. Lawhorn/82

Pdt Watches

WA...Wind Advisory from 7 PM this evening to 11 AM PDT Friday for WAZ024-026. OR...Wind Advisory from 7 PM this evening to 11 AM PDT Friday for ORZ041.

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