Bristol, TN Weather Forecast
Sullivan County, Tennessee
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The next few hours
Dry for the moment, with rain moving in overnight
It is 49° with a dew point of 37°, which is dry for this time of year. The sky is mostly sunny. The air is close to calm.
The barometer has dropped 0.06 inHg in the last hour. A fall that steep is a boundary getting close, not the daily swing. The wind turns to the southwest around 3 AM. The first rain arrives between 2 AM and 3 AM.
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
A long wet stretch ahead
The wet part of the window runs from about 2 AM to 1 AM, 4 hours of it, with the highest chance near 3 AM. Total accumulation over the window comes to about 0.13 in.
It tapers off after 1 AM. The overnight low settles near 49°. Tomorrow tops out near 52°. It also gets muggier, so tomorrow will feel warmer than the number on its own suggests.
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
26–65°F across the weekThe week runs between 26° and 55°, with Tuesday the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Friday is the wettest day, peaking near 92%. 4 of the 7 days stay dry.
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Bristol, TN at a glance
Bristol is home to about 27,854 people in Sullivan County, across 33 square miles. It ranks 28th by population of 148 places in Tennessee with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Bristol, 5 miles away.
- County
- Sullivan County
- Population
- 27,854 2023 est.
- Land area
- 33 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 852
- Forecast point
- 36.5585°N, 82.2170°W
How well can the network see Bristol?
The nearest Doppler radar is KMRX (Knoxville, TN), to the WSW. Its lowest scan passes about 5,800 ft above Bristol. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Bristol can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KTRI (Bristol/Tri-Cities Arpt). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Bristol
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- Johnson City, TN17 mi
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- Jonesborough, TN23 mi
- Unicoi, TN24 mi
- Lebanon, VA25 mi
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