Madison, WV Weather Forecast
Boone County, West Virginia
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The next few hours
Dry for the moment, with rain moving in overnight
It is 50° with a dew point of 36°, which is dry for this time of year. The sky is mostly cloudy.
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 west-southwest around 2 AM. The first rain arrives between 2 AM and 3 AM. That leaves a usable window outdoors until about 2 AM, and it closes quickly after that.
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 9 AM, 23 hours of it, with the highest chance near 2 AM. Total accumulation over the window comes to about 0.40 in.
It tapers off after 9 AM. The overnight low settles near 48°. Tomorrow tops out near 52°. 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
28–65°F across the weekThe week runs between 28° and 52°, with tomorrow 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 81%. 4 of the 7 days stay dry.
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Madison, WV at a glance
Madison is home to about 2,742 people in Boone County, across 7 square miles. It ranks 46th by population of 48 places in West Virginia with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is South Charleston, 20 miles away.
- County
- Boone County
- Population
- 2,742 2023 est.
- Land area
- 7 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 391
- Forecast point
- 38.0642°N, 81.7949°W
How well can the network see Madison?
The nearest Doppler radar is KRLX (Charleston, WV), to the NNE. Its lowest scan passes about 960 ft above Madison. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Madison show up clearly. Madison is closer to its radar than 88% of US cities.
The closest weather station is K6L4 (Logan Cnty). Far enough that current conditions for Madison are a reading from somewhere else.
Forecasts near Madison
- South Charleston, WV20 mi
- Dunbar, WV21 mi
- Charleston, WV22 mi
- St. Albans, WV22 mi
- Nitro, WV24 mi
- Hurricane, WV28 mi
- Milton, WV32 mi
- Oak Hill, WV35 mi
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