Cumberland, RI Weather Forecast
Providence County, Rhode Island
Seven-day outlook
31–67°F across the weekThe week runs between 31° and 67°, with today the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Every day in the outlook stays 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 Cumberland forecast
Cumberland sits at 41.9675°N, 71.4206°W in Providence County, Rhode Island. 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
- Providence County
- Coordinates
- 41.9675°N, 71.4206°W
- Population
- 36,591 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 26.487 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Cumberland, 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 Cumberland?
The nearest Doppler radar is KBOX (Boston, MA), 15 miles to the E. 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 Cumberland its center is about 780 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 Cumberland, so low-level rotation and the leading edge of a gust front show up on it. Cumberland is closer to its radar than 91% of US cities.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KSFZ · Pawtucket/N Central State Arpt on the ASOS/AWOS network, 5.1 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 Rhode Island observing network as of this build.
Forecasts near Cumberland
- Lincoln, RI4 mi
- North Attleborough Town, MA4 mi
- Woonsocket, RI5 mi
- Plainville, MA5 mi
- Central Falls, RI6 mi
- North Smithfield, RI6 mi
- Wrentham, MA7 mi
- Pawtucket, RI7 mi
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