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Bell, CA Weather Forecast

Los Angeles County, California

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Conditions now · Thu, 1:45 PM PDT
73°FDewpoint 57°FMostly cloudy

Measured at KFHM · Los Angeles Downtown, CA · airport · 7.0 mi away · 11 minutes ago

Bell, CA at Thu, 1:45 PM PDT: 73°F and mostly cloudy, measured at KFHM (Los Angeles Downtown, CA) 7.0 mi away, 11 minutes ago. Rest of today: high 72°F, low 66°F, 9% chance of rain. No active National Weather Service alerts for this location.

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What is happeningWritten from the numbers on this page

Dry for the moment, with rain moving in overnight

It is 75° with a dew point of 56°, which is comfortable for this time of year. The sky is mostly cloudy.

Pressure is easing down, 0.03 inHg over the last hour. The wind backs into the southeast around midnight, which is the turn that usually comes ahead of the change rather than after it. The first rain arrives between 3 AM and 4 AM. That leaves a usable window outdoors until about 3 AM, and it closes quickly after that.

Hour by hour
1 PMMostly cloudy72°F3%
2 PMMostly cloudy72°F2%
3 PMPartly cloudy71°F3%
4 PMMostly cloudy71°F1%
5 PMMostly cloudy69°F0%
6 PMMostly cloudy68°F1%
7 PMMostly cloudy67°F1%
8 PMMostly cloudy67°F2%
9 PMMostly cloudy66°F9%
10 PMOvercast66°F7%
11 PMOvercast66°F9%
12 AMOvercast65°F13%

Next 36 hours

A long wet stretch ahead

The wet part of the window runs from about 3 AM to 6 PM, 6 hours of it, with the highest chance near 4 AM. Total accumulation over the window comes to about 0.28 in.

It tapers off after 6 PM. The overnight low settles near 62°. Tomorrow tops out near 71°.

Seven-day outlook

58–75°F across the week
TodayOct 29Mostly cloudy · 9% chance of rain66°F / 72°F
FriOct 30Scattered rain · 36% chance of rain63°F / 71°F
SatOct 31Rain likely · 69% chance of rain61°F / 69°F
SunNov 1Rain likely · 84% chance of rain61°F / 69°F
MonNov 2Mostly sunny · 1% chance of rain58°F / 72°F
TueNov 3Mostly sunny · 1% chance of rain59°F / 75°F
WedNov 4Partly cloudy · 4% chance of rain59°F / 74°F
ThuNov 5Partly cloudy · 2% chance of rain59°F / 74°F
FriNov 6Partly cloudy · 9% chance of rain60°F / 71°F
SatNov 7Mostly sunny · 7% chance of rain60°F / 72°F
SunNov 8Mostly sunny · 1% chance of rain60°F / 71°F
MonNov 9Partly cloudy · 3% chance of rain60°F / 60°F

The week runs between 58° and 75°, with Tuesday the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Sunday is the wettest day, peaking near 84%. 4 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 Bell forecast

Bell sits at 33.9797°N, 118.1792°W in Los Angeles 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
Los Angeles County
Coordinates
33.9797°N, 118.1792°W
Population
31,864 · 2023 estimate
Land area
2.508 sq mi

Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Bell, 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 Bell?

The nearest Doppler radar is KSOX (Santa Ana Mountains, CA), 33 miles to the ESE. 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 Bell its center is about 2,100 ft above ground. That is comfortably inside the useful range. The lowest scan passes low enough over Bell to show rotation in the part of a storm where tornadoes actually form. Bell is closer to its radar than 66% of US cities.

The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KFHM · Los Angeles Downtown on the ASOS/AWOS network, 7.1 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 California observing network as of this build.

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