11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Overcast
11°
Feels like 11°
Wind↑ SE 8 km/h
Gusts16 km/h
Humidity 85 %
Evening
Light rain
18°
Feels like 18°
Wind↑ SSE 17 km/h
Gusts47 km/h
Humidity 86 %
💧 4.1 mm
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Overcast
11°
Feels like 11°
Wind↑ NW 9 km/h
Gusts17 km/h
Humidity 95 %
Evening
Clear sky
16°
Feels like 16°
Wind↑ NNW 12 km/h
Gusts36 km/h
Humidity 73 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Clear sky
12°
Feels like 12°
Wind↑ NNE 7 km/h
Gusts14 km/h
Humidity 89 %
Evening
Partly cloudy
16°
Feels like 16°
Wind↑ ENE 3 km/h
Humidity 71 %
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Clear sky
11°
Feels like 11°
Wind↑ ESE 7 km/h
Gusts17 km/h
Humidity 92 %
West Raleigh forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
▲ This week runs +5.3° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
West Raleigh climate: what a normal year looks like
The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 32 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 1 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 21 °C.
Afternoons reach 30 °C or more in July and August; the typical peak is 32 °C in July.
There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 82 mm and 125 mm on average.
From 14 h 35 min of daylight in late June to 9 h 43 min in late December.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 22 °C, 1 °C cooler than a normal October (23 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
11 °C
1 °C
95 mm
Feb
12 °C
2 °C
82 mm
Mar
17 °C
6 °C
107 mm
Apr
22 °C
11 °C
94 mm
May
26 °C
15 °C
95 mm
Jun
30 °C
20 °C
108 mm
Jul
32 °C
22 °C
123 mm
Aug
30 °C
21 °C
117 mm
Sep
27 °C
18 °C
125 mm
Oct
23 °C
12 °C
82 mm
Nov
16 °C
6 °C
87 mm
Dec
12 °C
3 °C
93 mm
Whole year
21 °C
11 °C
1,210 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 35.79° N, 78.66° W, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.
Air you breathe in West Raleigh: pollution and pollen
2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.512µg/m³
PM1012µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around West Raleigh
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around West Raleigh, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
Moon over West Raleigh
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 16:53 Set 07:38
Fri30/1079%
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Moonrise and moonset in local time (America/New_York); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in West Raleigh
Curious about the weather in West Raleigh on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
West Raleigh weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in West Raleigh, North Carolina: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 23 °C (feels like 27 °C) and the wind blows at 7 km/h.
Expected range today: 13 °C to 24 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.
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