Riverhead, NY Weather Forecast
Suffolk County, New York
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Riverhead, 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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Riverhead, NY at a glance
Riverhead is home to about 35,723 people in Suffolk County, across 67 square miles. It ranks 45th by population of 593 places in New York with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Brookhaven, 15 miles away.
- County
- Suffolk County
- Population
- 35,723 2023 est.
- Land area
- 67 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 530
- Forecast point
- 40.9740°N, 72.7147°W
How well can the network see Riverhead?
The nearest Doppler radar is KOKX (New York City, NY), to the SW. Its lowest scan passes about 560 ft above Riverhead. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Riverhead show up clearly. Riverhead is closer to its radar than 95% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KFOK (Westhampton/Gabreski Arpt). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Riverhead
- Brookhaven, NY15 mi
- Southampton, NY18 mi
- Port Jefferson, NY18 mi
- Greenport, NY20 mi
- Branford, CT21 mi
- Shelter Island, NY22 mi
- Patchogue, NY22 mi
- Sag Harbor, NY22 mi
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