Lancaster, NY Weather Forecast
Erie County, New York
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Lancaster, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
A dry afternoon, mostly cloudy
It is 47°, but the wind is taking it down to 42° on exposed skin. The sky is mostly cloudy.
The wind backs into the south-southwest around 1 AM, 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
Dry and warming through tomorrow
Nothing wet is expected over the next day and a half.
The overnight low settles near 40°. Tomorrow reaches 57°, 8° warmer than today. It also gets muggier, so tomorrow will feel warmer than the number on its own suggests.
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
31–59°F across the weekThe week runs between 31° and 57°, with tomorrow the warmest day of it. The second half leans cooling, and Friday is the coolest day in it. Thursday is the wettest day, peaking near 64%. 4 of the 7 days stay dry.
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Lancaster, NY at a glance
Lancaster is home to about 10,047 people in Erie County, across 2.7 square miles. It ranks 193rd by population of 593 places in New York with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Depew, 2 miles away.
- County
- Erie County
- Population
- 10,047 2023 est.
- Land area
- 2.7 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 3,696
- Forecast point
- 42.9006°N, 78.6688°W
How well can the network see Lancaster?
The nearest Doppler radar is KBUF (Buffalo, NY), to the NW. Its lowest scan passes about 230 ft above Lancaster. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Lancaster show up clearly. Lancaster is closer to its radar than 99% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KBUF (Buffalo-Niagara Intl). Close enough that its readings are the conditions in town.
Forecasts near Lancaster
- Depew, NY2 mi
- Cheektowaga, NY4 mi
- Elma, NY5 mi
- Williamsville, NY5 mi
- West Seneca, NY6 mi
- Sloan, NY6 mi
- Clarence, NY9 mi
- Alden, NY9 mi
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