Rensselaer, NY Weather Forecast
Rensselaer County, New York
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Rensselaer, 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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Rensselaer, NY at a glance
Rensselaer is home to about 9,310 people in Rensselaer County, across 3.2 square miles. It ranks 207th by population of 593 places in New York with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Menands, 3 miles away.
- County
- Rensselaer County
- Population
- 9,310 2023 est.
- Land area
- 3.2 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 2,929
- Forecast point
- 42.6457°N, 73.7325°W
How well can the network see Rensselaer?
The nearest Doppler radar is KENX (Albany, NY), to the WSW. Its lowest scan passes about 950 ft above Rensselaer. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Rensselaer show up clearly. Rensselaer is closer to its radar than 88% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KALB (Albany Intl). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Rensselaer
- Menands, NY3 mi
- East Greenbush, NY3 mi
- Albany, NY4 mi
- North Greenbush, NY4 mi
- Watervliet, NY6 mi
- Bethlehem, NY6 mi
- Troy, NY7 mi
- Colonie, NY7 mi
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