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Cape Breton Weather Forecast

Temperature, wind, rain and more for Cape Breton

Nova Scotia, Canada

DayLocal TimeDirSpeed/
Gust		Temp/
Feels Like		HumidityPressureCloud AmountPrecip AmountWeather
Wed 14
Apr		00:00

NE
NE

 18 / 31 mph 32 / 21°F 96% 1011 mb
Low level cloud: 95%
Mid level cloud: 84%
High level cloud: 0%
Most Significant Cloud Type: low
100%
Expect 0.04 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.04 In
03:00

NE
NE

 18 / 30 mph 31 / 20°F 96% 1012 mb
Low level cloud: 94%
Mid level cloud: 81%
High level cloud: 57%
Most Significant Cloud Type: low
100%
Expect 0.05 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.05 In
06:00

NE
NE

 17 / 29 mph 31 / 19°F 90% 1013 mb
Low level cloud: 74%
Mid level cloud: 23%
High level cloud: 80%
Most Significant Cloud Type: low
92%
Expect 0.05 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.05 In
09:00

NE
NE

 16 / 26 mph 32 / 21°F 80% 1014 mb
Low level cloud: 45%
Mid level cloud: 12%
High level cloud: 14%
Most Significant Cloud Type: low
51%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
12:00

NE
NE

 15 / 18 mph 40 / 31°F 65% 1014 mb
Low level cloud: 0%
Mid level cloud: 8%
High level cloud: 33%
Most Significant Cloud Type: medium
8%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
15:00

ENE
ENE

 15 / 17 mph 42 / 34°F 57% 1013 mb
Low level cloud: 0%
Mid level cloud: 3%
High level cloud: 12%
Most Significant Cloud Type: medium
3%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
18:00

NE
NE

 11 / 13 mph 40 / 33°F 62% 1012 mb
Low level cloud: 0%
Mid level cloud: 11%
High level cloud: 100%
Most Significant Cloud Type: medium
14%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
21:00

NNE
NNE

 6 / 11 mph 37 / 32°F 71% 1013 mb
Low level cloud: 0%
Mid level cloud: 45%
High level cloud: 93%
Most Significant Cloud Type: medium
49%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
Thu 15
Apr		18:00

ENE
ENE

 9 / 15 mph 35 / 27°F 63% 1015 mb
Low level cloud: 0%
Mid level cloud: 0%
High level cloud: 5%
Most Significant Cloud Type: high
4%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
21:00

NE
NE

 4 / 7 mph 33 / 29°F 82% 1016 mb
Low level cloud: 0%
Mid level cloud: 0%
High level cloud: 5%
Most Significant Cloud Type: high
5%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In

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The 7 day weather forecast summary for Cape Breton:

Taking a look at Cape Breton over the coming week and the average daytime maximum temperature will be around 5°C, with a high for the week of 11°C expected on the afternoon of Tuesday 20th. The mean minimum temperature will be 0°C, dipping to its lowest on the morning of Friday 16th at -2°C. The week will have mixed overhead conditions with some days dry and some seeing a significant amount of rain or snow. Current predictions suggest Sunday 16th will have the most precipitation with an accumulation of around 10.0mm. 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

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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