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Lynden, WA Weather Forecast

Whatcom County, Washington

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Conditions now · Thu, 7:15 AM PDT
42°FDewpoint 39°FOvercast

Measured at GW2737 · CWOP · 0.4 mi away · 2 minutes ago

Lynden, WA at Thu, 7:15 AM PDT: 42°F and overcast, measured at GW2737 0.4 mi away, 2 minutes ago. Rest of today: high 51°F, low 38°F, 33% 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 morning

It is 44°, but the wind is taking it down to 41° on exposed skin. The sky is overcast.

The wind backs into the north-northeast around 3 PM, which is the turn that usually comes ahead of the change rather than after it. The first rain arrives between 11 AM and noon. That leaves a usable window outdoors until about 11 AM, and it closes quickly after that.

Hour by hour
7 AMOvercast38°F22%
8 AMOvercast38°F22%
9 AMOvercast40°F21%
10 AMMostly cloudy43°F24%
11 AMScattered rain45°F31%
12 PMScattered rain47°F33%
1 PMScattered rain49°F33%
2 PMMostly cloudy51°F17%
3 PMMostly cloudy51°F11%
4 PMMostly cloudy51°F11%
5 PMMostly cloudy50°F13%
6 PMMostly cloudy48°F11%

Next 36 hours

A long wet stretch ahead

The wet part of the window runs from about 11 AM to 4 PM, 5 hours of it, with the highest chance near noon. Total accumulation over the window comes to about 0.12 in.

It tapers off after 4 PM. The overnight low settles near 38°. Tomorrow tops out near 51°.

Seven-day outlook

35–55°F across the week
TodayOct 29Scattered rain · 33% chance of rain38°F / 51°F
FriOct 30Scattered rain · 27% chance of rain36°F / 51°F
SatOct 31Partly cloudy · 2% chance of rain35°F / 53°F
SunNov 1Partly cloudy · 2% chance of rain35°F / 52°F
MonNov 2Mostly cloudy · 14% chance of rain37°F / 53°F
TueNov 3Mostly cloudy · 10% chance of rain39°F / 54°F
WedNov 4Partly cloudy · 11% chance of rain38°F / 55°F
ThuNov 5Mostly cloudy · 20% chance of rain40°F / 55°F
FriNov 6Scattered rain · 27% chance of rain41°F / 54°F
SatNov 7Scattered rain · 34% chance of rain42°F / 54°F
SunNov 8Scattered rain · 37% chance of rain43°F / 54°F
MonNov 9Scattered rain · 32% chance of rain43°F / 43°F

The week runs between 35° and 55°, with Wednesday the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Today is the wettest day, peaking near 33%. 5 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 Lynden forecast

Lynden sits at 48.9499°N, 122.4548°W in Whatcom 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
Whatcom County
Coordinates
48.9499°N, 122.4548°W
Population
16,551 · 2023 estimate
Land area
5.435 sq mi

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

The nearest Doppler radar is KATX (Seattle/Tacoma, WA), 52 miles to the S. 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 Lynden its center is about 3,800 ft above ground. That is comfortably inside the useful range. The lowest scan passes low enough over Lynden to show rotation in the part of a storm where tornadoes actually form.

The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KBLI · Bellingham Intl on the ASOS/AWOS network, 11 miles away. Near enough to be representative on most days, though a summer thunderstorm can soak one and miss the other entirely.

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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