Hartford, CT weather
Right now 57°, clear · today 65° / 52°, sunny · seven days from the National Weather Service
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Right now · 57° · clear · wind SSE 7 mph · 3° warmer than this time yesterday · at Hartford-Brainard, 10:50 AM
Today, in the Weather Service’s words
Sunny, with a high near 65. South wind 1 to 12 mph.
Seven days
Winter in Hartford
Hartford averages 52 inches of snow a year, according to NOAA’s 1991-2020 climate normals - a regular snow place. Snow several times a winter, well-practised response. Closures happen but need a real storm.
That is why local snowfall thresholds differ so much from one town to the next: a district that plans for 52 inches a year is equipped differently from one that never sees any. Here, roughly 6 inches in a single storm is where a normal school day comes under threat.
Upper air over Hartford
The nearest radiosonde launch is Upton, about 63 miles away. A weather balloon goes up twice a day and measures temperature, humidity and wind all the way through the atmosphere - which is what forecasters actually read to judge whether storms will fire, and how a surface forecast was arrived at.
Forecasters covering the Northeast
- Jeffrey GluckIndependent meteorologist covering Northeast winter storms and severe weather. Data-driven forecasts backed by multi-model analysis. Focused on actionable timing and accumulation calls for the I-95 corridor.
- SKYler-WARNNew outlook producer (daily or weekly) Subscribe to YT @RealSkyler_edits (I'm an editor)
- ForecasterHQF
Sources: National Weather Service forecast and hourly grid for Hartford (api.weather.gov), updated Wed, 6:25 AM UTC. Sunrise and sunset from NOAA’s solar position calculations. Snowfall normals from NOAA’s 1991-2020 US Climate Normals. County lines from the US Census Bureau.