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Portlethen Weather Forecast

Temperature, wind, rain and more for Portlethen

Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom

DayLocal TimeDirSpeed/
Gust		Temp/
Feels Like		HumidityPressureCloud AmountPrecip AmountWeather
Thu 12
Mar		06:00

SSW
SSW

 41 / 71 mph 44 / 32°F 77% 988 mb
Low level cloud: 49%
Mid level cloud: 5%
High level cloud: 100%
Most Significant Cloud Type: low
62%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
09:00

SSW
SSW

 34 / 57 mph 44 / 33°F 83% 986 mb
Low level cloud: 87%
Mid level cloud: 29%
High level cloud: 77%
Most Significant Cloud Type: low
100%
Expect 0.01 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.01 In
12:00

WSW
WSW

 10 / 16 mph 44 / 38°F 71% 985 mb
Low level cloud: 0%
Mid level cloud: 100%
High level cloud: 100%
Most Significant Cloud Type: medium
100%
Expect 0.13 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.13 In
15:00

SSW
SSW

 15 / 18 mph 43 / 35°F 86% 983 mb
Low level cloud: 58%
Mid level cloud: 60%
High level cloud: 6%
Most Significant Cloud Type: low
80%
Expect 0.03 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.03 In
18:00

SSW
SSW

 22 / 27 mph 41 / 31°F 84% 984 mb
Low level cloud: 34%
Mid level cloud: 26%
High level cloud: 0%
Most Significant Cloud Type: low
42%
Expect 0.01 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.01 In
21:00

SW
SW

 22 / 28 mph 40 / 29°F 78% 984 mb
Low level cloud: 0%
Mid level cloud: 8%
High level cloud: 0%
Most Significant Cloud Type: medium
8%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
Fri 13
Mar		00:00

SSW
SSW

 26 / 30 mph 40 / 29°F 82% 982 mb
Low level cloud: 47%
Mid level cloud: 44%
High level cloud: 0%
Most Significant Cloud Type: low
62%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
03:00

SW
SW

 26 / 30 mph 38 / 27°F 73% 982 mb
Low level cloud: 0%
Mid level cloud: 6%
High level cloud: 0%
Most Significant Cloud Type: medium
6%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
06:00

SW
SW

 19 / 21 mph 37 / 27°F 85% 980 mb
Low level cloud: 9%
Mid level cloud: 100%
High level cloud: 0%
Most Significant Cloud Type: medium
100%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
09:00

SW
SW

 19 / 23 mph 41 / 32°F 75% 982 mb
Low level cloud: 6%
Mid level cloud: 27%
High level cloud: 21%
Most Significant Cloud Type: medium
43%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
12:00

WSW
WSW

 18 / 38 mph 38 / 28°F 66% 985 mb
Low level cloud: 1%
Mid level cloud: 44%
High level cloud: 91%
Most Significant Cloud Type: medium
50%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
15:00

WSW
WSW

 18 / 39 mph 38 / 28°F 59% 986 mb
Low level cloud: 0%
Mid level cloud: 31%
High level cloud: 95%
Most Significant Cloud Type: medium
34%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
18:00

SW
SW

 16 / 33 mph 36 / 27°F 68% 988 mb
Low level cloud: 9%
Mid level cloud: 55%
High level cloud: 83%
Most Significant Cloud Type: medium
82%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
21:00

WSW
WSW

 11 / 16 mph 40 / 33°F 80% 990 mb
Low level cloud: 0%
Mid level cloud: 43%
High level cloud: 16%
Most Significant Cloud Type: medium
44%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
The 7 day weather forecast summary for Portlethen:

The outlook for Portlethen in the week ahead shows the average daytime maximum temperature will be around 7°C, with a high for the week of 10°C expected on the afternoon of Thursday 19th. The average minimum temperature will be 4°C, dipping to its lowest on the morning of Monday 16th at 1°C. The week ahead will have mostly dry days although Thursday is likely to see a little rain. The indicators are that Thursday 16th will have the most precipitation with an accumulation of around 4.0mm. On the whole winds are likely to be fresh. The forecast suggests the strongest wind will be on Thursday morning, coming from a south westerly direction, and reaching around 40mph.

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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

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Pressure