Bellingham, WA 98226 Weather

Whatcom County5:15 PM PDT48.80°N, 122.44°W

Current conditions

Sunny
55°
Sunny
Feels like 55°
High 57°·Low 38°
WindWSW 3 mph
Humidity67%
Dew point44°
Cloud cover17%
UV index0 Low
Sunrise7:43 AM
Sunset6:06 PM

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

Forecast

10-day

  • Friday

    Sunny. High near 57, with temperatures falling to around 55 in the afternoon. North wind 1 to 5 mph.

  • Friday Night

    Partly cloudy, with a low around 38. Southeast wind around 5 mph.

  • Saturday

    A chance of rain after 11am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 53. Northeast wind 2 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.

National Weather Service forecast updated 1 day ago.

Hourly

Hourly forecast
  1. Now Sunny 55°
  2. 6 PM Mostly Clear 52°
  3. 7 PM Mostly Clear 48°
  4. 8 PM Mostly Clear 45°
  5. 9 PM Mostly Clear 43°
  6. 10 PM Mostly Clear 42°
  7. 11 PM Partly Cloudy 42°
  8. Sat12 AM Partly Cloudy 42°
  9. 1 AM Partly Cloudy 41°
  10. 2 AM Mostly Cloudy 41°
  11. 3 AM Mostly Cloudy 41°
  12. 4 AM Mostly Cloudy 40°
  13. 5 AM Mostly Cloudy 40°
  14. 6 AM Partly Sunny 39°
  15. 7 AM Partly Sunny 39°
  16. 8 AM Mostly Cloudy 40°
  17. 9 AM Mostly Cloudy 42°
  18. 10 AM Mostly Cloudy 45°
  19. 11 AM Chance Light Rain 48°33%
  20. 12 PM Chance Light Rain 50°33%
  21. 1 PM Chance Light Rain 51°33%
  22. 2 PM Chance Light Rain 52°33%
  23. 3 PM Chance Light Rain 52°33%
  24. 4 PM Chance Light Rain 52°33%

Daily forecast

Details
  1. ThuOct 22 Mostly Cloudy Mostly Cloudy39°56°
  2. TodayOct 23 Sunny Sunny38°57°
  3. SatOct 24 Chance Light Rain Chance Light Rain51%40°53°
  4. SunOct 25 Chance Light Rain Chance Light Rain32%40°58°
  5. MonOct 26 Slight Chance Light Rain then Mostly Sunny Slight Chance Light Rain then Mostly Sunny15%40°59°
  6. TueOct 27 Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Light Rain Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Light Rain17%39°58°
  7. WedOct 28 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny14%38°57°
  8. ThuOct 29 Sunny Sunny43°61°
  9. FriOct 30 Sunny Sunny42°58°

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

21
Good
Fine particles (PM2.5)

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

Forecast

  • FriGood
  • SatModerate
  • SunGood

Bellingham, 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 7:43 AM
Sunset 6:06 PM
Daylight 10 h 23 min (−3 min 23 s tomorrow)
Waxing Gibbous · 94% lit
Moonrise 4:44 PM Moonset 4:47 AM
Full moon Oct 26 New moon Nov 9

Almanac

Monthly
Normal high / low56° / 40°
Record high73° (1914)
Record low22° (1921)
Wettest1.94 in (1933)
Month to date0.44 in (normal 3.45 in)

Clearbrook, records since 1903. Normals 1991–2020. Data from NOAA's Regional Climate Centers (ACIS).

Nearby

Forecasters' discussion

From the National Weather Service office in SEW, issued 8 hrs ago

Synopsis

High pressure aloft will provide another day of dry conditions for Western Washington today. An area of low pressure moving southward from the British Columbia coast will bring some rain to the region later Saturday into the early portion of next week. Drier conditions are expected to return by the middle of next week as the low pressure system moves eastward.

Short Term

No major updates to the forecast have been made this morning. See below for an updated aviation discussion.

High pressure aloft will briefly rebuild into Western Washington today for a dry day ahead and near seasonal temperatures. An area of low pressure sliding south from the British Columbia coast is still slated to begin to affect the area later Saturday into Sunday. Models still remain at odds with respect to its track, but there's enough consensus to warrant likely to categorical PoPs for the coast and Olympic Peninsula Saturday night into Sunday. Some QPF is expected to make it into Puget Sound on Sunday, but present thinking is that it will remain rather light. Temperatures through the short term period will hover within a couple degrees of normal for the final week of October.

Long Term

Upper troughing remains over the Pacific Northwest Sunday night into Monday for a lingering chance of precip...mostly focused on the southern half of the CWA. The upper trough is expected to shift eastward on Tuesday, but confidence in the forecast trails off by the middle of the coming week as ensembles begin to diverge somewhat from what they featured just a day ago. The GFS suite of solutions have a stronger influence of upper troughing over the region while the ECMWF height anomalies would keep broad upper troughing just offshore of California. To be clear, neither of these is a particularly wet scenario for Western Washington, but it lends enough uncertainty to retain some generic low chance PoPs for much of the CWA...and that's exactly what the NBM is using in the forecast. Temperatures are expected to remain generally seasonal, but chances for some sub-freezing overnight lows in the Southwest Interior and outlying areas increase toward the middle/later portion of next week.

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Aviation

Generally low end VFR to MVFR in mid level clouds, which are slowly beginning to scatter out this morning with widespread VFR expected by the afternoon. Northwesterly flow aloft in the wake of an exiting trough expected to remain that way throughout the day and into Saturday. Surface winds at all terminals light and variable this morning with northerly winds expected to develop by this afternoon with speeds ranging 4-8 kts. Light and variable winds expected again tonight.

KSEA...Cigs hovering right around 3000 feet this morning should scatter out by 18z, revealing clear skies. Increasing high clouds later tonight expected to hinder chances of degraded ceilings developing overnight into Saturday morning. Surface winds generally light at the terminal this morning becoming northerly 5 to 10 kt in the afternoon, and light and variable overnight.

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