Lake Forest, CA Weather Forecast
Orange County, California
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Lake Forest, 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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Lake Forest, CA at a glance
Lake Forest is home to about 85,840 people in Orange County, across 17 square miles. It ranks 94th by population of 450 places in California with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Mission Viejo, 3 miles away.
- County
- Orange County
- Population
- 85,840 2023 est.
- Land area
- 17 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 5,136
- Forecast point
- 33.6549°N, 117.6758°W
How well can the network see Lake Forest?
The nearest Doppler radar is KSOX (Santa Ana Mountains, CA), to the NNE. Its lowest scan passes about 590 ft above Lake Forest. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Lake Forest show up clearly. Lake Forest is closer to its radar than 94% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KSNA (Santa Ana/Wayne Arpt). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
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