Farmingdale, ME Weather Forecast
Kennebec County, Maine
The next few hours
Dry for the moment, with rain moving in this morning
It is 42°, but the wind is taking it down to 38° on exposed skin. The sky is scattered rain.
The wind backs into the southwest around 9 PM, which is the turn that usually comes ahead of the change rather than after it. The first rain arrives between 7 AM and 8 AM, with the best chance of it around 9 AM.
Colour and bar height both show how heavy the rain would look on radar. A dotted line means the model has no reading for that hour, which is not the same as no rain.
Hour by hour
A long wet stretch ahead
The wet part of the window runs from about 7 AM to 2 PM, 7 hours of it, with the highest chance near 9 AM. Total accumulation over the window comes to about 0.15 in.
It tapers off after 2 PM. The overnight low settles near 35°. Tomorrow tops out near 52°.
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
27–53°F across the weekThe week runs between 27° and 52°, with tomorrow the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Today is the wettest day, peaking near 74%. 6 of the 7 days stay dry.
About the Farmingdale forecast
Farmingdale sits at 44.2605°N, 69.8278°W in Kennebec County, Maine. 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
- Kennebec County
- Coordinates
- 44.2605°N, 69.8278°W
- Population
- 3,018 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 11.239 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Farmingdale, 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 Farmingdale?
The nearest Doppler radar is KGYX (Portland, ME), 33 miles to the SW. 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 Farmingdale its center is about 2,100 ft above ground. That is comfortably inside the useful range. The lowest scan passes low enough over Farmingdale to show rotation in the part of a storm where tornadoes actually form. Farmingdale is closer to its radar than 66% of US cities.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KAUG · Augusta/State Arpt on the ASOS/AWOS network, 4.1 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 Maine observing network as of this build.
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