Bristol, VA Weather Forecast
Bristol city, Virginia
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Bristol, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Dry for the moment, with rain moving in overnight
It is 48° 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, 5 hours of it, with the highest chance near 3 AM. Total accumulation over the window comes to about 0.16 in.
It tapers off after 1 AM. The overnight low settles near 49°. Tomorrow tops out near 51°. 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
26–64°F across the weekThe week runs between 26° and 54°, with Tuesday the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Tomorrow is the wettest day, peaking near 74%. 4 of the 7 days stay dry.
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Bristol, VA at a glance
Bristol is home to about 16,807 people in Bristol city, across 13 square miles. It ranks 31st by population of 87 places in Virginia with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Bristol, 5 miles away.
- County
- Bristol city
- Population
- 16,807 2023 est.
- Land area
- 13 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,306
- Forecast point
- 36.6170°N, 82.1576°W
How well can the network see Bristol?
The nearest Doppler radar is KMRX (Knoxville, TN), to the WSW. Its lowest scan passes about 6,400 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 KVJI (Abingdon/Virginia Highlands Arpt). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Bristol
- Bristol, TN5 mi
- Abingdon, VA12 mi
- Elizabethton, TN20 mi
- Lebanon, VA20 mi
- Kingsport, TN22 mi
- Johnson City, TN23 mi
- Jonesborough, TN28 mi
- Mount Carmel, TN29 mi
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