Norfolk, VA Weather Forecast
Norfolk city, Virginia
Seven-day outlook
56–70°F across the weekThe week runs between 57° and 70°, with tomorrow 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 Norfolk forecast
Norfolk sits at 36.9230°N, 76.2446°W in Norfolk city, 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
- Norfolk city
- Coordinates
- 36.9230°N, 76.2446°W
- Population
- 230,930 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 53.275 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Norfolk, 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 Norfolk?
The nearest Doppler radar is KAKQ (Norfolk/Richmond, VA), 42 miles to the W. 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 Norfolk its center is about 2,800 ft above ground. That is comfortably inside the useful range. The lowest scan passes low enough over Norfolk to show rotation in the part of a storm where tornadoes actually form. Norfolk is closer to its radar than 53% of US cities.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KNGU · Norfolk NAS on the ASOS/AWOS network, 2.2 miles away. Close enough that its readings are, for practical purposes, the conditions in town.
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 Norfolk
- Portsmouth, VA8 mi
- Hampton, VA9 mi
- Poquoson, VA15 mi
- Virginia Beach, VA15 mi
- Chesapeake, VA17 mi
- Newport News, VA19 mi
- Smithfield, VA21 mi
- Suffolk, VA27 mi
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