Lorain, OH Weather Forecast
Lorain County, Ohio
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Lorain, 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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Lorain, OH at a glance
Lorain is home to about 65,337 people in Lorain County, across 24 square miles. It ranks 9th by population of 358 places in Ohio with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Amherst, 4 miles away.
- County
- Lorain County
- Population
- 65,337 2023 est.
- Land area
- 24 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 2,768
- Forecast point
- 41.4388°N, 82.1797°W
How well can the network see Lorain?
The nearest Doppler radar is KCLE (Cleveland, OH), to the E. Its lowest scan passes about 910 ft above Lorain. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Lorain show up clearly. Lorain is closer to its radar than 89% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KLPR (Elyria/Lorain Cnty). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Lorain
- Amherst, OH4 mi
- Sheffield, OH5 mi
- Sheffield Lake, OH5 mi
- Elyria, OH6 mi
- Vermilion, OH7 mi
- North Ridgeville, OH9 mi
- Avon, OH9 mi
- Avon Lake, OH9 mi
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