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Butler, IN Weather Forecast

DeKalb County, Indiana

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Conditions now · Thu, 5:55 AM EDT
52°FDewpoint 52°FPartly cloudy

Measured at KGWB · Auburn/De Kalb Cnty, IN · airport · 13 mi away · 12 minutes ago

Butler, IN at Thu, 5:55 AM EDT: 52°F and partly cloudy, measured at KGWB (Auburn/De Kalb Cnty, IN) 13 mi away, 12 minutes ago. Rest of today: high 73°F, low 53°F, 32% 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 this evening

It is 50° with a dew point of 48°, which is dry for this time of year. The sky is partly cloudy.

The wind turns to the west-northwest around 5 PM. The first rain arrives between 5 PM and 6 PM. That leaves a usable window outdoors until about 5 PM, and it closes quickly after that.

Hour by hour
6 AMPartly cloudy53°F0%
7 AMPartly cloudy54°F0%
8 AMPartly cloudy54°F0%
9 AMMostly sunny56°F0%
10 AMMostly sunny60°F0%
11 AMMostly sunny65°F0%
12 PMClear68°F0%
1 PMMostly sunny71°F0%
2 PMMostly sunny72°F0%
3 PMPartly cloudy73°F0%
4 PMMostly cloudy73°F7%
5 PMScattered rain71°F32%

Next 36 hours

One wet spell, dry either side of it

The wet part of the window runs from about 5 PM to 7 PM, 2 hours of it, with the highest chance near 5 PM. Total accumulation over the window comes to about 0.02 in.

It tapers off after 7 PM. The overnight low settles near 50°. Tomorrow reaches 63°, 10° cooler than today. The humidity goes with it: tomorrow is the more comfortable half of this window, and the safer one for anything outdoors.

Seven-day outlook

37–73°F across the week
TodayOct 29Scattered rain · 32% chance of rain53°F / 73°F
FriOct 30Mostly sunny · 0% chance of rain41°F / 63°F
SatOct 31Mostly cloudy · 22% chance of rain46°F / 62°F
SunNov 1Mostly cloudy · 17% chance of rain49°F / 66°F
MonNov 2Mostly cloudy · 24% chance of rain50°F / 68°F
TueNov 3Scattered rain · 42% chance of rain54°F / 70°F
WedNov 4Scattered rain · 47% chance of rain54°F / 67°F
ThuNov 5Scattered rain · 50% chance of rain51°F / 64°F
FriNov 6Scattered rain · 26% chance of rain44°F / 57°F
SatNov 7Partly cloudy · 11% chance of rain40°F / 57°F
SunNov 8Partly cloudy · 9% chance of rain37°F / 57°F

The week runs between 41° and 73°, with today the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Wednesday is the wettest day, peaking near 47%. 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 Butler forecast

Butler sits at 41.4271°N, 84.8723°W in DeKalb County, Indiana. 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
DeKalb County
Coordinates
41.4271°N, 84.8723°W
Population
2,679 · 2023 estimate
Land area
2.03 sq mi

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

The nearest Doppler radar is KIWX (Fort Wayne, IN), 43 miles to the W. 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 Butler its center is about 2,900 ft above ground. That is comfortably inside the useful range. The lowest scan passes low enough over Butler to show rotation in the part of a storm where tornadoes actually form. Butler is closer to its radar than 51% of US cities.

The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KGWB · Auburn/De Kalb Cnty on the ASOS/AWOS network, 13 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 Indiana observing network as of this build.

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