Akutan, AK Weather Forecast
Aleutians East Borough, Alaska
Seven-day outlook
39–49°F across the weekThe week runs between 39° and 49°, with today the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Today is the wettest day, peaking near 96%. Every day in the outlook carries at least a scattered chance of precipitation.
Forecasts come from the National Weather Service's own computer models, and current conditions from the nearest reporting weather station. Both are served through the weather API. A forecast is guidance, not a warning, and anything the Weather Service has actually issued is on the live map.
The written summaries on this page are generated from the forecast data above, not by a meteorologist. Each sentence is a reading of the same numbers you can see, and no forecaster has reviewed them.
About the Akutan forecast
Akutan sits at 54.1400°N, 165.7630°W in Aleutians East Borough, Alaska. The forecast above is drawn for that point from the National Weather Service's own computer models: a seven-day outlook, and a finer-grained one covering the next eighteen hours where it reaches, and the radar and alert panels show what the Weather Service has out over the area right now.
- County
- Aleutians East Borough
- Coordinates
- 54.1400°N, 165.7630°W
- Population
- 1,586 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 65.977 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Akutan, and the forecast is for that location, not for every address inside the city limits, and a large city can have real weather differences from one side to the other.
How well can the network see Akutan?
The nearest WSR-88D is PAKC (King Salmon, AK), 469 miles to the NE, beyond the roughly 150-mile range over which one is any use. By the time the lowest scan reaches Akutan its center is around 131,100 ft up, well above the weather. In practice Akutan has no radar coverage: what reaches you is satellite, surface reports and the forecaster's judgment, and a warning here is built from those rather than from a velocity couplet someone watched spin up.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is PAUT · Akutan Arpt on the ASOS/AWOS network, 6.4 miles away. Near enough to be representative on most days, though a summer thunderstorm can soak one and miss the other entirely.
Beam height is the standard 4/3-earth approximation for the 0.5° scan and assumes normal refraction; it is where the center of the beam is, not its edges, and unusual temperature profiles bend it. Radar siting from the NWS WSR-88D network, station positions from the Alaska observing network as of this build.
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