Penn Forest, PA Weather Forecast
Carbon County, Pennsylvania
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Penn Forest, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Dry for the moment, with rain moving in this morning
It is 47°, but the wind is taking it down to 40° on exposed skin. The sky is mostly sunny. The wind is out of the west-northwest at 17 mph.
The first rain arrives between 8 AM and 9 AM. That leaves a usable window outdoors until about 8 AM, and it closes quickly after that.
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
One wet spell, dry either side of it
The wet part of the window runs from about 8 AM to 11 AM, 2 hours of it, with the highest chance near 8 AM. Total accumulation over the window comes to about 0.04 in.
It tapers off after 11 AM. Pressure rises 0.03 inHg behind it, which is the drier air arriving. The overnight low settles near 42°. Tomorrow tops out near 60°.
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
31–60°F across the weekThe week runs between 30° and 60°, with tomorrow the warmest day of it. The second half leans cooling, and Saturday is the coolest day in it. Friday is the wettest day, peaking near 70%. 3 of the 7 days stay dry.
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Penn Forest, PA at a glance
Penn Forest is home to about 10,235 people in Carbon County, across 74 square miles. It ranks 239th by population of 970 places in Pennsylvania with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Polk, 7 miles away.
- County
- Carbon County
- Population
- 10,235 2023 est.
- Land area
- 74 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 139
- Forecast point
- 40.9562°N, 75.6275°W
How well can the network see Penn Forest?
The nearest Doppler radar is KBGM (Binghamton, NY), to the NNW. Its lowest scan passes about 7,900 ft above Penn Forest. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Penn Forest can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is K22N (Lehighton/Arner Mem). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Penn Forest
- Polk, PA7 mi
- Towamensing, PA7 mi
- Franklin, PA7 mi
- Tunkhannock, PA9 mi
- Lower Towamensing, PA10 mi
- Lehighton, PA10 mi
- Weatherly, PA10 mi
- Jim Thorpe, PA10 mi
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