Palmetto, FL Weather

Manatee County8:22 AM EDT27.52°N, 82.57°WElevation 10 ft

Current conditions

Sunny
64°
Sunny
Feels like 64°
High 81°·Low 63°
WindNNE 9 mph gusts 17 mph
Humidity76%
Dew point57°
Visibility10 mi
Cloud cover2%
UV index0 Low
Sunrise7:35 AM
Sunset6:56 PM

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

Forecast

10-day

  • Today

    Sunny, with a high near 81. North northeast wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.

  • Tonight

    Clear, with a low around 63. Northeast wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.

  • Friday

    Sunny, with a high near 81. Northeast wind 9 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.

National Weather Service forecast updated 6 hrs ago.

Hourly

Hourly forecast
  1. Now Sunny 64°
  2. 9 AM Sunny 66°
  3. 10 AM Sunny 70°
  4. 11 AM Sunny 72°
  5. 12 PM Sunny 76°
  6. 1 PM Sunny 77°
  7. 2 PM Sunny 78°
  8. 3 PM Sunny 79°
  9. 4 PM Sunny 78°
  10. 5 PM Sunny 79°
  11. 6 PM Clear 78°
  12. 7 PM Mostly Clear 75°
  13. 8 PM Mostly Clear 73°
  14. 9 PM Clear 72°
  15. 10 PM Clear 70°
  16. 11 PM Clear 69°
  17. Fri12 AM Clear 67°
  18. 1 AM Clear 66°
  19. 2 AM Clear 65°
  20. 3 AM Clear 64°
  21. 4 AM Clear 64°
  22. 5 AM Clear 64°
  23. 6 AM Sunny 63°
  24. 7 AM Sunny 63°

Daily forecast

Details
  1. TodayOct 22 Sunny Sunny63°81°
  2. FriOct 23 Sunny Sunny65°81°
  3. SatOct 24 Sunny Sunny68°82°
  4. SunOct 25 Sunny Sunny67°83°
  5. MonOct 26 Sunny Sunny66°82°
  6. TueOct 27 Sunny Sunny65°82°
  7. WedOct 28 Sunny Sunny10%66°82°
  8. ThuOct 29 Mostly sunny Mostly sunny70°79°
  9. FriOct 30 Mostly sunny Mostly sunny69°79°

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

40
Good
Ozone

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

Forecast

  • ThuModerate
  • FriModerate
  • SatModerate

Sarasota, 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 7:35 AM
Sunset 6:56 PM
Daylight 11 h 20 min (−1 min 31 s tomorrow)
Waxing Gibbous · 85% lit
Moonrise 4:41 PM Moonset 4:02 AM
Full moon Oct 26 New moon Nov 9

Almanac

Monthly
Normal high / low85° / 67°
Record high92° (1993)
Record low46° (1989)
Wettest1.69 in (1911)
Month to date9.74 in (normal 2.17 in)

Sarasota-Bradenton Area, records since 1911. Normals 1991–2020. Data from NOAA's Regional Climate Centers (ACIS).

Nearby

Forecasters' discussion

From the National Weather Service office in TBW, issued 12 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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