North Plains, OR Weather Forecast
Washington County, Oregon
Seven-day outlook
34–60°F across the weekThe week runs between 34° and 60°, with Wednesday the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Today is the wettest day, peaking near 30%. 6 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 North Plains forecast
North Plains sits at 45.5975°N, 122.9947°W in Washington County, Oregon. 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
- Washington County
- Coordinates
- 45.5975°N, 122.9947°W
- Population
- 3,378 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 1.09 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for North Plains, 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 North Plains?
The nearest Doppler radar is KRTX (Portland, OR), 8.2 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 North Plains its center is about 410 ft above ground. That is about as close as radar coverage gets in the United States: the lowest scan is still near the ground when it reaches North Plains, so low-level rotation and the leading edge of a gust front show up on it. North Plains is closer to its radar than 97% of US cities.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KHIO · Portland/Hillsboro Arpt on the ASOS/AWOS network, 3.9 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 Oregon observing network as of this build.
Forecasts near North Plains
- Hillsboro, OR6 mi
- Cornelius, OR6 mi
- Forest Grove, OR8 mi
- Beaverton, OR12 mi
- Scappoose, OR13 mi
- Tigard, OR16 mi
- King City, OR16 mi
- Portland, OR17 mi
Elsewhere in Oregon
PortlandEugeneSalemGreshamHillsboroBendAll Oregon forecasts →