Wheat Ridge, CO Weather Forecast
Jefferson County, Colorado
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Wheat Ridge, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
A dry evening, clear
It is 45°, but the wind is taking it down to 44° on exposed skin. The sky is clear. The air is close to calm.
The wind backs into the east-southeast around 9 AM, which is the turn that usually comes ahead of the change rather than after it. Nothing in the next day and a half is wet enough to move plans for.
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Dry and warming through tomorrow
Nothing wet is expected over the next day and a half.
The overnight low settles near 40°. Tomorrow reaches 66°, 20° warmer than today. It also gets muggier, so tomorrow will feel warmer than the number on its own suggests.
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
30–67°F across the weekThe week runs between 36° and 66°, with tomorrow 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 26%. 6 of the 7 days stay dry.
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Wheat Ridge, CO at a glance
Wheat Ridge is home to about 31,804 people in Jefferson County, across 9.3 square miles. It ranks 26th by population of 105 places in Colorado with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Edgewater, 3 miles away.
- County
- Jefferson County
- Population
- 31,804 2023 est.
- Land area
- 9.3 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 3,404
- Forecast point
- 39.7727°N, 105.1048°W
How well can the network see Wheat Ridge?
The nearest Doppler radar is KFTG (Denver, CO), to the E. Its lowest scan passes about 1,800 ft above Wheat Ridge. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Wheat Ridge show up clearly. Wheat Ridge is closer to its radar than 71% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KBJC (Rocky Mtn Metro). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Wheat Ridge
- Edgewater, CO3 mi
- Arvada, CO5 mi
- Lakewood, CO5 mi
- Golden, CO6 mi
- Westminster, CO8 mi
- Federal Heights, CO8 mi
- Sheridan, CO10 mi
- Glendale, CO10 mi
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