Morganton, NC Weather Forecast
Burke County, North Carolina
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Morganton, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
A dry morning, clear
It is 49°, but the wind is taking it down to 45° on exposed skin. The sky is clear.
The wind backs into the west-southwest around 8 PM, 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
Quiet through the next day and a half
Nothing wet is expected over the next day and a half.
The overnight low settles near 34°. Tomorrow tops out near 50°.
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
28–67°F across the weekThe week runs between 28° and 64°, with Thursday the warmest day of it. The second half leans warming, and tomorrow is the coolest day in it. Every day in the outlook stays dry.
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Morganton, NC at a glance
Morganton is home to about 17,708 people in Burke County, across 19 square miles. It ranks 61st by population of 230 places in North Carolina with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Valdese, 7 miles away.
- County
- Burke County
- Population
- 17,708 2023 est.
- Land area
- 19 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 921
- Forecast point
- 35.7408°N, 81.7003°W
How well can the network see Morganton?
The nearest Doppler radar is KGSP (Greenville/Spartanburg, SC), to the SSW. Its lowest scan passes about 5,200 ft above Morganton. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Morganton can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KMRN (Morganton/Foothills Rgnl). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Morganton
- Valdese, NC7 mi
- Gamewell, NC10 mi
- Cajah's Mountain, NC12 mi
- Sawmills, NC14 mi
- Hudson, NC14 mi
- Lenoir, NC15 mi
- Granite Falls, NC16 mi
- Marion, NC17 mi
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