Avenal, CA Weather Forecast
Kings County, California
Seven-day outlook
48–71°F across the weekThe week runs between 48° and 71°, with today the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Saturday is the wettest day, peaking near 60%. 5 of the 7 days stay dry.
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 Avenal forecast
Avenal sits at 36.0311°N, 120.1162°W in Kings County, California. 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
- Kings County
- Coordinates
- 36.0311°N, 120.1162°W
- Population
- 14,075 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 19.483 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Avenal, 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 Avenal?
The nearest Doppler radar is KHNX (Hanford, CA), 33 miles to the NE. 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 Avenal its center is about 2,100 ft above ground. That is comfortably inside the useful range. The lowest scan passes low enough over Avenal to show rotation in the part of a storm where tornadoes actually form. Avenal is closer to its radar than 66% of US cities.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KNLC · Lemoore on the ASOS/AWOS network, 21 miles away. Far enough that "current conditions" for Avenal is an educated reading of somewhere else, worth knowing before you plan around a single temperature.
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 California observing network as of this build.
Forecasts near Avenal
- Huron, CA12 mi
- Coalinga, CA14 mi
- Lemoore, CA25 mi
- Corcoran, CA31 mi
- Hanford, CA33 mi
- San Joaquin, CA40 mi
- Paso Robles, CA41 mi
- Tulare, CA45 mi
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