Barnstead, NH Weather Forecast
Belknap County, New Hampshire
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Barnstead, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
A dry afternoon, partly cloudy
It is 37°, but the wind is taking it down to 33° on exposed skin. The sky is partly cloudy.
The wind backs into the west-southwest around 8 PM, 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
Quiet through the next day and a half
Nothing wet is expected over the next day and a half.
The overnight low settles near 29°. Tomorrow tops out near 46°.
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
27–59°F across the weekThe week runs between 27° and 58°, with Friday the warmest day of it. The second half leans warming, and today is the coolest day in it. Every day in the outlook stays dry.
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Barnstead, NH at a glance
Barnstead is home to about 5,022 people in Belknap County, across 43 square miles. It ranks 73rd by population of 125 places in New Hampshire with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Pittsfield, 5 miles away.
- County
- Belknap County
- Population
- 5,022 2023 est.
- Land area
- 43 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 117
- Forecast point
- 43.3486°N, 71.2569°W
How well can the network see Barnstead?
The nearest Doppler radar is KGYX (Portland, ME), to the NE. Its lowest scan passes about 4,800 ft above Barnstead. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Barnstead can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KCON (Concord Muni). Far enough that current conditions for Barnstead are a reading from somewhere else.
Forecasts near Barnstead
- Pittsfield, NH5 mi
- Strafford, NH7 mi
- Gilmanton, NH8 mi
- New Durham, NH10 mi
- Chichester, NH10 mi
- Northwood, NH10 mi
- Alton, NH10 mi
- Farmington, NH10 mi
Elsewhere in New Hampshire
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