Dunkirk, NY Weather Forecast
Chautauqua County, New York
Seven-day outlook
47–67°F across the weekThe week runs between 47° and 67°, with today 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 66%. 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 Dunkirk forecast
Dunkirk sits at 42.4806°N, 79.3329°W in Chautauqua County, New York. 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
- Chautauqua County
- Coordinates
- 42.4806°N, 79.3329°W
- Population
- 12,442 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 4.545 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Dunkirk, 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 Dunkirk?
The nearest Doppler radar is KBUF (Buffalo, NY), 44 miles to the NE. 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 Dunkirk its center is about 3,000 ft above ground. That is comfortably inside the useful range. The lowest scan passes low enough over Dunkirk to show rotation in the part of a storm where tornadoes actually form. Dunkirk is closer to its radar than 50% of US cities.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KDKK · Dunkirk/Chautauqua Cnty on the ASOS/AWOS network, 3.0 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 New York observing network as of this build.
Forecasts near Dunkirk
- Fredonia, NY3 mi
- Pomfret, NY5 mi
- Sheridan, NY6 mi
- Silver Creek, NY9 mi
- Portland, NY10 mi
- Hanover, NY11 mi
- Westfield, NY17 mi
- Chautauqua, NY19 mi
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