Kenai, AK Weather Forecast
Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska
Seven-day outlook
32–46°F across the weekThe week runs between 32° and 46°, with tomorrow the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Tomorrow is the wettest day, peaking near 100%.
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 Kenai forecast
Kenai sits at 60.5622°N, 151.2081°W in Kenai Peninsula 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
- Kenai Peninsula Borough
- Coordinates
- 60.5622°N, 151.2081°W
- Population
- 7,746 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 29.14 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Kenai, 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 Kenai?
The nearest Doppler radar is PAHG (Anchorage, AK), 12 miles to the NNW. A WSR-88D's lowest routine scan sits half a degree above horizontal, and the earth curves away beneath it, so by the time that beam reaches Kenai its center is about 640 ft above ground. That is about as close as radar coverage gets in the United States: the lowest scan is still near the ground when it reaches Kenai, so low-level rotation and the leading edge of a gust front show up on it. Kenai is closer to its radar than 93% of US cities.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is PAEN · Kenai Muni on the ASOS/AWOS network, 1.6 miles away. Close enough that its readings are, for practical purposes, the conditions in town.
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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