Bedford, VA Weather Forecast
Bedford County, Virginia
Seven-day outlook
43–78°F across the weekThe week runs between 46° and 78°, with tomorrow the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Wednesday is the wettest day, peaking near 31%. 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 Bedford forecast
Bedford sits at 37.3363°N, 79.5177°W in Bedford County, Virginia. 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
- Bedford County
- Coordinates
- 37.3363°N, 79.5177°W
- Population
- 6,777 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 8.723 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Bedford, 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 Bedford?
The nearest Doppler radar is KFCX (Roanoke, VA), 47 miles to the WSW. 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 Bedford its center is about 3,300 ft above ground. That is comfortably inside the useful range. The lowest scan passes low enough over Bedford to show rotation in the part of a storm where tornadoes actually form.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KLYH · Lynchburg/Glenn Fld on the ASOS/AWOS network, 17 miles away. Far enough that "current conditions" for Bedford is an educated reading of somewhere else, worth knowing before you plan around a single temperature.
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 Virginia observing network as of this build.
Forecasts near Bedford
- Lynchburg, VA18 mi
- Altavista, VA20 mi
- Vinton, VA21 mi
- Roanoke, VA25 mi
- Buena Vista, VA29 mi
- Salem, VA30 mi
- Rocky Mount, VA31 mi
- Lexington, VA31 mi
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