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Rothera Point Weather Forecast

Temperature, wind, rain and more for Rothera Point

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DayLocal TimeDirSpeed/
Gust		Temp/
Feels Like		HumidityPressureCloud AmountPrecip AmountWeather
Tue 31
Jan		12:00

NNE
NNE

 6 / 13 mph 21 / 13°F 82% 980 mb
Low level cloud: 10%
Mid level cloud: 98%
High level cloud: 97%
Most Significant Cloud Type: medium
100%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
15:00

NE
NE

 8 / 16 mph 21 / 12°F 80% 979 mb
Low level cloud: 10%
Mid level cloud: 86%
High level cloud: 71%
Most Significant Cloud Type: medium
100%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
18:00

NNE
NNE

 6 / 13 mph 21 / 13°F 83% 977 mb
Low level cloud: 26%
Mid level cloud: 86%
High level cloud: 99%
Most Significant Cloud Type: medium
100%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
21:00

NNE
NNE

 8 / 17 mph 21 / 12°F 87% 977 mb
Low level cloud: 32%
Mid level cloud: 63%
High level cloud: 14%
Most Significant Cloud Type: low
56%
Expect 0.01 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.01 In
Wed 01
Feb		00:00

NNE
NNE

 9 / 19 mph 26 / 17°F 91% 977 mb
Low level cloud: 44%
Mid level cloud: 43%
High level cloud: 12%
Most Significant Cloud Type: low
60%
Expect 0.02 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.02 In
03:00

NNE
NNE

 9 / 19 mph 27 / 17°F 91% 977 mb
Low level cloud: 19%
Mid level cloud: 44%
High level cloud: 32%
Most Significant Cloud Type: low
38%
Expect 0.01 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.01 In
06:00

NNE
NNE

 9 / 18 mph 27 / 18°F 91% 977 mb
Low level cloud: 24%
Mid level cloud: 84%
High level cloud: 28%
Most Significant Cloud Type: medium
100%
Expect 0.01 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.01 In
09:00

NNE
NNE

 8 / 16 mph 26 / 18°F 91% 977 mb
Low level cloud: 35%
Mid level cloud: 66%
High level cloud: 100%
Most Significant Cloud Type: low
70%
Expect 0.01 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.01 In
12:00

NNE
NNE

 8 / 17 mph 26 / 17°F 91% 977 mb
Low level cloud: 42%
Mid level cloud: 89%
High level cloud: 21%
Most Significant Cloud Type: low
75%
Expect 0.01 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.01 In
15:00

NNE
NNE

 7 / 15 mph 25 / 17°F 95% 977 mb
Low level cloud: 55%
Mid level cloud: 100%
High level cloud: 22%
Most Significant Cloud Type: low
92%
Expect 0.02 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.02 In
18:00

NNE
NNE

 5 / 11 mph 26 / 19°F 99% 978 mb
Low level cloud: 63%
Mid level cloud: 99%
High level cloud: 95%
Most Significant Cloud Type: low
100%
Expect 0.02 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.02 In
21:00

N
N

 5 / 10 mph 26 / 20°F 96% 980 mb
Low level cloud: 36%
Mid level cloud: 100%
High level cloud: 33%
Most Significant Cloud Type: low
75%
Expect 0.02 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.02 In
The 7 day weather forecast summary for Rothera Point:

The outlook for Rothera Point in the week ahead shows the average daytime maximum temperature will be around -2°C, with a high for the week of 1°C expected on the afternoon of Saturday 4th. The average minimum temperature will be -6°C, dipping to its lowest on the morning of Saturday 4th at -9°C. The coming week will have mixed overhead conditions with some days dry and some seeing a significant amount of snow. The current forecast indicates Friday 4th will have the most precipitation with an accumulation of around 24.0mm. On the whole winds are likely to be moderate.

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Day

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Local Time

The wind direction we use on this page is the direction the wind is coming from, given in a 16 point compass format.
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Dir

This refers to the sustained average wind speed, normally averaged over a period of 10 minutes for up to 3 hrs.
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Speed/
Gust

Temperature from our forecast perspective are fairly well defined, they are what we would expect to measure in a standard meteorological screen (in other words, shaded and well ventilated) at 2 metres above ground level.
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Temp/
Feels Like

The relative humidity is the percent of saturation humidity, generally calculated in relation to saturated vapour density.
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Humidity

The value given is a total predicted for the previous 3 hrs and includes the time of the forecast being looked at.
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Precip Amount

The total amount of cloud as a percentage is derived from looking at cloud cover throughout the atmosphere and estimating how these combine when looked at from the ground.
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Cloud Amount

Here we try to capture the feel of the weather as an image � it will never be perfect but is useful for a quick overview.
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Weather

When we measure for forecast air pressure we are normally doing this relative to a certain height and most commonly relative to Mean Sea Level.
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Pressure