Salem, VA Weather Forecast
Salem city, Virginia
Seven-day outlook
42–76°F across the weekThe week runs between 47° and 76°, 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 25%. 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 Salem forecast
Salem sits at 37.2853°N, 80.0552°W in Salem 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
- Salem city
- Coordinates
- 37.2853°N, 80.0552°W
- Population
- 25,600 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 14.515 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Salem, 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 Salem?
The nearest Doppler radar is KFCX (Roanoke, VA), 22 miles to the SW. 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 Salem its center is about 1,200 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 Salem, so low-level rotation and the leading edge of a gust front show up on it. Salem is closer to its radar than 82% of US cities.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KROA · Roanoke Rgnl on the ASOS/AWOS network, 5.0 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 Salem
- Roanoke, VA5 mi
- Vinton, VA9 mi
- Blacksburg, VA21 mi
- Rocky Mount, VA22 mi
- Christiansburg, VA22 mi
- Bedford, VA30 mi
- Radford, VA30 mi
- Covington, VA34 mi
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