King, NC Weather Forecast
Stokes County, North Carolina
The next few hours
A dry morning, clear
It is 62° with a dew point of 38°, which is dry for this time of year. The sky is clear.
Pressure is easing down, 0.03 inHg over the last hour. Nothing in the next day and a half is wet enough to move plans for.
Colour and bar height both show how heavy the rain would look on radar. A dotted line means the model has no reading for that hour, which is not the same as no rain.
Hour by hour
Quiet through the next day and a half
Nothing wet is expected over the next day and a half.
The overnight low settles near 41°. Tomorrow tops out near 68°. 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
32–68°F across the weekThe week runs between 33° and 68°, with Tuesday the warmest day of it. The second half leans cooling, and Saturday is the coolest day in it. Thursday is the wettest day, peaking near 31%. 6 of the 7 days stay dry.
About the King forecast
King sits at 36.2747°N, 80.3569°W in Stokes 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
- Stokes County
- Coordinates
- 36.2747°N, 80.3569°W
- Population
- 7,561 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 6.161 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for King, 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 King?
The nearest Doppler radar is KFCX (Roanoke, VA), 52 miles to the N. 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 King its center is about 3,700 ft above ground. That is comfortably inside the useful range. The lowest scan passes low enough over King to show rotation in the part of a storm where tornadoes actually form.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KINT · Winston-Salem/Reynolds Arpt on the ASOS/AWOS network, 12 miles away. Near enough to be representative on most days, though a summer thunderstorm can soak one and miss the other entirely.
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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