Opa-locka, FL Weather Forecast
Miami-Dade County, Florida
Seven-day outlook
70–86°F across the weekThe week runs between 74° and 86°, with today 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 67%. 3 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 Opa-locka forecast
Opa-locka sits at 25.9000°N, 80.2552°W in Miami-Dade County, Florida. 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
- Miami-Dade County
- Coordinates
- 25.9000°N, 80.2552°W
- Population
- 15,794 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 4.308 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Opa-locka, 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 Opa-locka?
The nearest Doppler radar is KAMX (Miami, FL), 22 miles to the SSW. 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 Opa-locka its center is about 1,300 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 Opa-locka, so low-level rotation and the leading edge of a gust front show up on it. Opa-locka is closer to its radar than 82% of US cities.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KOPF · Miami/Opa Locka Arpt on the ASOS/AWOS network, 1.9 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 Florida observing network as of this build.
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