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Burlington, WA Weather Forecast

Skagit County, Washington

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Conditions now · Thu, 6:55 AM PDT
45°FDewpoint 41°FOvercast

Measured at KBVS · Burlington/Skagit Rgnl, WA · airport · 4.1 mi away · 22 minutes ago

Burlington, WA at Thu, 6:55 AM PDT: 45°F and overcast, measured at KBVS (Burlington/Skagit Rgnl, WA) 4.1 mi away, 22 minutes ago. Rest of today: high 53°F, low 40°F, 22% chance of rain. No active National Weather Service alerts for this location.

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What is happeningWritten from the numbers on this page

Dry for the moment, with rain moving in this afternoon

It is 43°, but the wind is taking it down to 41° on exposed skin. The sky is overcast. The air is close to calm.

The wind turns to the south around noon. The first rain arrives between noon and 1 PM, with the best chance of it around 2 PM. That leaves a usable window outdoors until about noon, and it closes quickly after that.

Hour by hour
7 AMOvercast40°F16%
8 AMMostly cloudy40°F17%
9 AMMostly cloudy40°F17%
10 AMMostly cloudy43°F22%
11 AMMostly cloudy46°F17%
12 PMMostly cloudy50°F9%
1 PMMostly cloudy52°F6%
2 PMMostly cloudy53°F5%
3 PMPartly cloudy53°F5%
4 PMMostly cloudy53°F6%
5 PMMostly cloudy51°F6%
6 PMMostly cloudy49°F10%

Next 36 hours

One wet spell, dry either side of it

The wet part of the window runs from about noon to 3 PM, 2 hours of it, with the highest chance near 2 PM. Total accumulation over the window comes to about 0.02 in.

It tapers off after 3 PM. The overnight low settles near 38°. Tomorrow tops out near 51°.

Seven-day outlook

35–56°F across the week
TodayOct 29Mostly cloudy · 22% chance of rain40°F / 53°F
FriOct 30Scattered rain · 27% chance of rain36°F / 51°F
SatOct 31Partly cloudy · 1% chance of rain35°F / 54°F
SunNov 1Partly cloudy · 1% chance of rain36°F / 53°F
MonNov 2Mostly cloudy · 10% chance of rain37°F / 54°F
TueNov 3Mostly cloudy · 11% chance of rain40°F / 54°F
WedNov 4Partly cloudy · 9% chance of rain39°F / 56°F
ThuNov 5Mostly cloudy · 20% chance of rain42°F / 56°F
FriNov 6Scattered rain · 26% chance of rain43°F / 54°F
SatNov 7Scattered rain · 32% chance of rain42°F / 55°F
SunNov 8Scattered rain · 35% chance of rain44°F / 55°F
MonNov 9Scattered rain · 31% chance of rain43°F / 43°F

The week runs between 35° and 56°, with Wednesday 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 27%. 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 Burlington forecast

Burlington sits at 48.4664°N, 122.3289°W in Skagit County, Washington. 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
Skagit County
Coordinates
48.4664°N, 122.3289°W
Population
10,358 · 2023 estimate
Land area
4.281 sq mi

Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Burlington, 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 Burlington?

The nearest Doppler radar is KATX (Seattle/Tacoma, WA), 20 miles to the SSW. 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 Burlington its center is about 1,100 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 Burlington, so low-level rotation and the leading edge of a gust front show up on it. Burlington is closer to its radar than 84% of US cities.

The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KBVS · Burlington/Skagit Rgnl on the ASOS/AWOS network, 4.1 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 Washington observing network as of this build.

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