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Santa Maria Weather Forecast

Temperature, wind, rain and more for Santa Maria

Azores Islands

DayLocal TimeDirSpeed/
Gust		Temp/
Feels Like		HumidityPressureCloud AmountPrecip AmountWeather
Sat 13
Dec		14:00

WSW
WSW

 15 / 19 mph 64 / 64°F 79% 1027 mb
Low level cloud: 90%
Mid level cloud: 51%
High level cloud: 33%
Most Significant Cloud Type: low
100%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
17:00

WSW
WSW

 15 / 21 mph 63 / 63°F 82% 1027 mb
Low level cloud: 77%
Mid level cloud: 45%
High level cloud: 79%
Most Significant Cloud Type: low
100%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
20:00

WSW
WSW

 17 / 27 mph 62 / 62°F 87% 1026 mb
Low level cloud: 37%
Mid level cloud: 57%
High level cloud: 17%
Most Significant Cloud Type: low
59%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
23:00

WSW
WSW

 18 / 31 mph 61 / 61°F 89% 1025 mb
Low level cloud: 20%
Mid level cloud: 19%
High level cloud: 4%
Most Significant Cloud Type: low
27%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
Sun 14
Dec		02:00

SW
SW

 18 / 35 mph 60 / 60°F 91% 1023 mb
Low level cloud: 41%
Mid level cloud: 17%
High level cloud: 22%
Most Significant Cloud Type: low
49%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
05:00

SW
SW

 22 / 45 mph 59 / 55°F 93% 1022 mb
Low level cloud: 54%
Mid level cloud: 17%
High level cloud: 87%
Most Significant Cloud Type: low
70%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
08:00

WSW
WSW

 22 / 46 mph 60 / 60°F 93% 1022 mb
Low level cloud: 53%
Mid level cloud: 44%
High level cloud: 56%
Most Significant Cloud Type: low
75%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
11:00

WSW
WSW

 20 / 33 mph 63 / 63°F 93% 1021 mb
Low level cloud: 59%
Mid level cloud: 46%
High level cloud: 96%
Most Significant Cloud Type: low
87%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
14:00

W
W

 20 / 25 mph 65 / 65°F 96% 1019 mb
Low level cloud: 99%
Mid level cloud: 96%
High level cloud: 100%
Most Significant Cloud Type: low
100%
Expect 0.04 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.04 In
17:00

N
N

 24 / 28 mph 64 / 64°F 84% 1021 mb
Low level cloud: 95%
Mid level cloud: 45%
High level cloud: 0%
Most Significant Cloud Type: low
100%
Expect 0.02 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.02 In
20:00

NNW
NNW

 21 / 25 mph 62 / 62°F 71% 1023 mb
Low level cloud: 15%
Mid level cloud: 1%
High level cloud: 0%
Most Significant Cloud Type: low
14%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
23:00

NW
NW

 27 / 32 mph 61 / 61°F 73% 1023 mb
Low level cloud: 83%
Mid level cloud: 11%
High level cloud: 0%
Most Significant Cloud Type: low
87%
Expect 0.01 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.01 In
The 7 day weather forecast summary for Santa Maria:

Taking a look at Santa Maria over the coming week and the average daytime maximum temperature will be around 16°C, with a high for the week of 21°C expected on the afternoon of Wednesday 17th. The average minimum temperature will be 14°C, dipping to its lowest on the morning of Thursday 18th at 13°C. The week will have mostly dry days although Sunday 14th and Wednesday 17th are likely to see a significant amount of rain. The current forecast indicates Wednesday 18th will have the most precipitation with an accumulation of around 8.0mm. On the whole winds are likely to be strong. The strongest wind will be experienced on Thursday morning, coming from a north westerly direction, and reaching around 33mph.

The day label given represents the local day relative to the local time for the location you are looking at.
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Day

This time is corrected for local time zones and where possible for daylight saving times.
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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