Paradise, PA Weather Forecast
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
The next few hours
A dry overnight, partly cloudy
It is 47°, but the wind is taking it down to 41° on exposed skin. The sky is partly cloudy.
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 44°. Tomorrow tops out near 58°.
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
31–63°F across the weekThe week runs between 31° and 63°, with Tuesday the warmest day of it. The second half leans cooling, and Friday is the coolest day in it. Friday is the wettest day, peaking near 61%. 4 of the 7 days stay dry.
About the Paradise forecast
Paradise sits at 39.9885°N, 76.1035°W in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. 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
- Lancaster County
- Coordinates
- 39.9885°N, 76.1035°W
- Population
- 5,676 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 18.597 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Paradise, 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 Paradise?
The nearest Doppler radar is KDOX (Dover AFB, DE), 88 miles to the SSE. 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 Paradise its center is about 7,900 ft above ground. That is far enough out that the beam has climbed above the lowest few thousand feet. Storm structure aloft is visible; a shallow circulation near the ground may not be, and a warning here can arrive before anything looks dramatic on the radar picture.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KMQS · Coatesville/Chester Cnty on the ASOS/AWOS network, 13 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 Pennsylvania observing network as of this build.
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