Kotzebue, AK Weather Forecast
Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Kotzebue, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Dry for the moment, with sleet moving in this evening
It is 21°, but the wind is taking it down to 14° on exposed skin. The sky is scattered sleet.
The wind turns to the east around 10 AM. The first sleet arrives between 8 PM and 9 PM, with the best chance of it around 6 AM.
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
One wet spell, dry either side of it
The wet part of the window runs from about 8 PM to 8 AM, 3 hours of it, with the highest chance near 6 AM. Total accumulation over the window comes to about 0.04 in.
It tapers off after 8 AM. The overnight low settles near 20°. Tomorrow tops out near 22°.
Sunrise and sunset
Next five days, scored 0 to 100The first day or two use the HRRR and NBM cloud layers. Later days only have total cloud, so treat them as a rough guide.
Know when sunset at this place will be worth a photo
We score every sunrise and sunset here from the cloud, haze and smoke forecast, and let you know when one is likely to light up. Sunrise the evening before, sunset a few hours ahead.
Seven-day outlook
17–22°F across the weekThe week runs between 18° and 22°, 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 43%. 4 of the 7 days stay dry.
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Kotzebue, AK at a glance
Kotzebue is home to about 2,979 people in Northwest Arctic Borough, across 25 square miles. It ranks 17th by population of 25 places in Alaska with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Nome, 184 miles away.
- County
- Northwest Arctic Borough
- Population
- 2,979 2023 est.
- Land area
- 25 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 120
- Forecast point
- 66.8771°N, 162.5035°W
How well can the network see Kotzebue?
The nearest Doppler radar, PAEC (Nome, AK), is 182 miles to the SSW, beyond its useful range: its lowest scan is around 24,900 ft up by the time it reaches Kotzebue. Warnings here lean on satellite and ground reports.
The closest weather station is PAOT (Kotzebue/Wien Mem). Close enough that its readings are the conditions in town.
Forecasts near Kotzebue
- Nome, AK184 mi
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