Rathdrum, ID Weather Forecast
Kootenai County, Idaho
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Seven-day outlook
33–54°F across the weekThe week runs between 33° and 54°, with Saturday the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Thursday is the wettest day, peaking near 53%. 6 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 Rathdrum forecast
Rathdrum sits at 47.7940°N, 116.8929°W in Kootenai County, Idaho. 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
- Kootenai County
- Coordinates
- 47.7940°N, 116.8929°W
- Population
- 11,580 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 6.954 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Rathdrum, 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 Rathdrum?
The nearest Doppler radar is KOTX (Spokane, WA), 35 miles to the WSW. 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 Rathdrum its center is about 2,200 ft above ground. That is comfortably inside the useful range. The lowest scan passes low enough over Rathdrum to show rotation in the part of a storm where tornadoes actually form. Rathdrum is closer to its radar than 63% of US cities.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KCOE · Coeur DAlene Arpt on the ASOS/AWOS network, 3.2 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 Idaho observing network as of this build.
Forecasts near Rathdrum
- Hayden, ID5 mi
- Post Falls, ID5 mi
- Dalton Gardens, ID7 mi
- Coeur d'Alene, ID8 mi
- Liberty Lake, WA13 mi
- Spokane Valley, WA18 mi
- Spokane, WA27 mi
- Deer Park, WA28 mi
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