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Temperature, wind, rain and more for Edinburgh

City of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Weather conditions from closest available locations;


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Lat: 55.95 Lon: -3.35 Alt: 41m
Thu 09th January 02:20UTC
-6°C / 21°F
Partly cloudy
10km
50%
100%
1002mb
WSW (7 mph/11 km/h)
Lat: 56.38 Lon: -2.87 Alt: 12m
Thu 09th January 01:50UTC
-3°C / 27°F
Partly cloudy
10km
50%
80%
1001mb
SW (7 mph/11 km/h)
Lat: 55.87 Lon: -4.43 Alt: 8m
Thu 09th January 02:20UTC
-7°C / 19°F
Partly cloudy
10km
50%
100%
1003mb
SSW (1 mph/2 km/h)

Today and Tomorrow Forecast

DayLocal TimeDirSpeed/
Gust
Temp/
Feels Like
HumidityPressureCloud AmountPrecip AmountWeather
Thu 09
Jan
00:00

WSW
WSW

6 / 12 mph 26 / 19°F 87% 1002 mb
Low level cloud: 2%
Mid level cloud: 86%
High level cloud: 0%
Most Significant Cloud Type: medium
92%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
03:00

WSW
WSW

7 / 16 mph 25 / 16°F 87% 1003 mb
Low level cloud: 0%
Mid level cloud: 30%
High level cloud: 0%
Most Significant Cloud Type: medium
30%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
06:00

WSW
WSW

9 / 18 mph 24 / 15°F 84% 1004 mb
Low level cloud: 0%
Mid level cloud: 17%
High level cloud: 0%
Most Significant Cloud Type: medium
17%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
09:00

W
W

7 / 16 mph 24 / 16°F 83% 1006 mb
Low level cloud: 33%
Mid level cloud: 70%
High level cloud: 0%
Most Significant Cloud Type: low
57%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
12:00

W
W

9 / 13 mph 33 / 25°F 80% 1009 mb
Low level cloud: 0%
Mid level cloud: 25%
High level cloud: 0%
Most Significant Cloud Type: medium
25%
Expect 0.04 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.04 In
15:00

WNW
WNW

11 / 18 mph 33 / 24°F 73% 1011 mb
Low level cloud: 0%
Mid level cloud: 12%
High level cloud: 0%
Most Significant Cloud Type: medium
11%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
18:00

W
W

8 / 17 mph 26 / 18°F 79% 1013 mb
Low level cloud: 0%
Mid level cloud: 44%
High level cloud: 0%
Most Significant Cloud Type: medium
43%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
21:00

WSW
WSW

7 / 15 mph 25 / 17°F 81% 1016 mb
Low level cloud: 0%
Mid level cloud: 19%
High level cloud: 0%
Most Significant Cloud Type: medium
19%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
Fri 10
Jan
00:00

WSW
WSW

6 / 13 mph 25 / 17°F 81% 1018 mb
Low level cloud: 1%
Mid level cloud: 19%
High level cloud: 0%
Most Significant Cloud Type: medium
21%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
03:00

WSW
WSW

5 / 10 mph 23 / 17°F 82% 1019 mb
Low level cloud: 4%
Mid level cloud: 12%
High level cloud: 0%
Most Significant Cloud Type: medium
21%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
06:00

WSW
WSW

4 / 8 mph 22 / 17°F 82% 1020 mb
Low level cloud: 0%
Mid level cloud: 5%
High level cloud: 0%
Most Significant Cloud Type: medium
4%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
09:00

WSW
WSW

3 / 7 mph 25 / 21°F 83% 1022 mb
Low level cloud: 0%
Mid level cloud: 3%
High level cloud: 0%
Most Significant Cloud Type: medium
3%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
12:00

WSW
WSW

2 / 4 mph 28 / 27°F 77% 1022 mb
Low level cloud: 0%
Mid level cloud: 0%
High level cloud: 0%
Most Significant Cloud Type: high
0%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
15:00

WSW
WSW

1 / 2 mph 30 / 30°F 78% 1023 mb
Low level cloud: 0%
Mid level cloud: 5%
High level cloud: 0%
Most Significant Cloud Type: medium
5%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
18:00

SSW
SSW

2 / 4 mph 29 / 27°F 80% 1024 mb
Low level cloud: 0%
Mid level cloud: 7%
High level cloud: 0%
Most Significant Cloud Type: medium
6%
Expect 0.00 In of precipitation over the past 3 hours.
0.00 In
21:00

SSW
SSW

2 / 3 mph 27 / 27°F 82% 1025 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

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The 2 day current weather summary for Edinburgh:

Reviewing the forecast for Edinburgh Over the next 2 days and the average daytime maximum temperature will be around 0°C, with a high for the week of 0°C expected on the afternoon of Thursday 9th. The average minimum temperature will be -5°C, dipping to its lowest on the morning of Friday 10th at -5°C. The coming week will have mostly dry days although Thursday is likely to see a little snow. The indicators are that Thursday 10th will have the most precipitation with an accumulation of around 1.0mm. On the whole winds are likely to be moderate.

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Day

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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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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

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