Sterling, NY Weather Forecast
Cayuga County, New York
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Sterling, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Dry for the moment, with rain moving in this evening
It is 43°, but the wind is taking it down to 38° on exposed skin. The sky is mostly cloudy.
Pressure is easing down, 0.03 inHg over the last hour. The wind turns to the west around noon. The first rain arrives between 6 PM and 7 PM. That leaves a usable window outdoors until about 6 PM, and it closes quickly after that.
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
One wet spell, dry either side of it
There is one wet stretch in the window, near 6 PM. Total accumulation over the window comes to about 0.03 in.
The overnight low settles near 40°. Tomorrow reaches 52°, 6° cooler than today. The humidity goes with it: tomorrow is the more comfortable half of this window, and the safer one for anything outdoors.
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
33–58°F across the weekThe week runs between 33° and 58°, with today the warmest day of it. The second half leans cooling, and Friday is the coolest day in it. Tomorrow is the wettest day, peaking near 100%. 3 of the 7 days stay dry.
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Sterling, NY at a glance
Sterling is home to about 3,166 people in Cayuga County, across 45 square miles. It ranks 504th by population of 593 places in New York with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Granby, 11 miles away.
- County
- Cayuga County
- Population
- 3,166 2023 est.
- Land area
- 45 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 70
- Forecast point
- 43.3151°N, 76.6587°W
How well can the network see Sterling?
The nearest Doppler radar is KTYX (Montague, NY), to the ENE. Its lowest scan passes about 4,300 ft above Sterling. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Sterling can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KFZY (Fulton/Oswego Cnty). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Sterling
- Granby, NY11 mi
- Fulton, NY12 mi
- Oswego, NY13 mi
- Volney, NY15 mi
- Scriba, NY16 mi
- Lysander, NY17 mi
- Baldwinsville, NY19 mi
- Brutus, NY19 mi
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