Chelsea, AL Weather Forecast
Shelby County, Alabama
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Chelsea, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
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
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Chelsea, AL at a glance
Chelsea is home to about 16,771 people in Shelby County, across 33 square miles. It ranks 40th by population of 154 places in Alabama with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Pelham, 6 miles away.
- County
- Shelby County
- Population
- 16,771 2023 est.
- Land area
- 33 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 508
- Forecast point
- 33.3090°N, 86.6351°W
How well can the network see Chelsea?
The nearest Doppler radar is KBMX (Birmingham, AL), to the SW. Its lowest scan passes about 640 ft above Chelsea. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Chelsea show up clearly. Chelsea is closer to its radar than 93% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KEET (Alabaster/Shelby Cnty). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Chelsea
- Pelham, AL6 mi
- Columbiana, AL8 mi
- Hoover, AL11 mi
- Vestavia Hills, AL12 mi
- Alabaster, AL13 mi
- Mountain Brook, AL14 mi
- Helena, AL14 mi
- Calera, AL14 mi
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