Poestenkill, NY Weather Forecast
Rensselaer County, New York
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Poestenkill, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Dry for the moment, with rain moving in this morning
It is 42° with a dew point of 35°, which is dry for this time of year. The sky is mostly cloudy. The air is close to calm.
Pressure is easing down, 0.02 inHg over the last hour. The wind backs into the east around 1 AM, which is the turn that usually comes ahead of the change rather than after it. The first rain arrives between 5 AM and 6 AM, with the best chance of it around 9 PM.
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
A long wet stretch ahead
Wet weather moves in around 5 AM. Total accumulation over the window comes to about 1.27 in.
The overnight low settles near 39°. Tomorrow tops out near 42°. 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
26–51°F across the weekThe week runs between 26° and 42°, with tomorrow the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Tomorrow is the wettest day, peaking near 100%. 5 of the 7 days stay dry.
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Poestenkill, NY at a glance
Poestenkill is home to about 4,293 people in Rensselaer County, across 32 square miles. It ranks 398th by population of 593 places in New York with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Brunswick, 4 miles away.
- County
- Rensselaer County
- Population
- 4,293 2023 est.
- Land area
- 32 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 133
- Forecast point
- 42.7002°N, 73.5225°W
How well can the network see Poestenkill?
The nearest Doppler radar is KENX (Albany, NY), to the WSW. Its lowest scan passes about 1,700 ft above Poestenkill. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Poestenkill show up clearly. Poestenkill is closer to its radar than 73% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KALB (Albany Intl). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Poestenkill
- Brunswick, NY4 mi
- Sand Lake, NY5 mi
- North Greenbush, NY8 mi
- Troy, NY8 mi
- Green Island, NY9 mi
- Watervliet, NY10 mi
- Menands, NY10 mi
- Cohoes, NY11 mi
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