Kill Devil Hills, NC Weather Forecast
Dare County, North Carolina
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
56–72°F across the weekThe week runs between 56° and 72°, with tomorrow the warmest day of it. The second half leans cooling, and Sunday is the coolest day in it. Friday is the wettest day, peaking near 87%. 5 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 Kill Devil Hills forecast
Kill Devil Hills sits at 36.0171°N, 75.6714°W in Dare County, North Carolina. 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
- Dare County
- Coordinates
- 36.0171°N, 75.6714°W
- Population
- 7,778 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 5.608 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Kill Devil Hills, 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 Kill Devil Hills?
The nearest Doppler radar is KAKQ (Norfolk/Richmond, VA), 100 miles to the NW. 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 Kill Devil Hills its center is about 9,600 ft above ground. At that range the beam overshoots the layer where severe weather organizes. The radar is describing the middle of the storm, not its base , which is why a warning for Kill Devil Hills can look unsupported on the mosaic and still be right. Trust the warning over the picture.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KFFA · First Flight Airport on the ASOS/AWOS network, 0.1 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 North Carolina observing network as of this build.
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