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Downtown weather

3,000 inhabitants · Saturday, November 7 · updated 00:40

Air: Good Moderate storm risk · Today, Tomorrow, Mon

27°

Rain showers

Feels like 39°C

Wind

20 km/h

Gusts

23 km/h

Humidity

81 %

Pressure

1014 hPa

Clouds

40 %

Storm

Moderate

Rise 06:42 Set 19:06 Day 12 h 24 min UV 8 · High

Downtown 14-day forecast

Trend

Night

Rain showers

28°27°

Feels like 38°

Wind ↑ ESE 21 km/h

Humidity 79 %

💧 4.6 mm

⚡ storm

Morning

Rain showers

28°27°

Feels like 39°

Wind ↑ ESE 22 km/h

Humidity 78 %

💧 5.0 mm

⚡ storm

Afternoon

Rain showers

28°

Feels like 39°

Wind ↑ ESE 21 km/h

Humidity 75 %

💧 1.7 mm

⚡ storm

Evening

Rain showers

29°28°

Feels like 40°

Wind ↑ ESE 23 km/h

Humidity 74 %

💧 2.2 mm

⚡ storm

06:00

27°

4.6mm

ESE 19

09:00

28°

0.4mm

ESE 22

12:00

28°

1.0mm

ESE 21

15:00

28°

0.7mm

SE 21

18:00

29°

1.5mm

ESE 23

21:00

28°

0.7mm

ESE 23

00:00

29°

0.8mm

ESE 22

03:00

28°

0.6mm

E 23

Rain radar around Downtown

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Downtown, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

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Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

Air you breathe in Downtown: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.52µg/m³

PM103µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Downtown forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Moon over Downtown

Waning crescent

6 % illuminated · 27.3 days

Rise 04:59 Set 17:33

Sun 8/11 2%

Mon 9/11 0%

Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Wed 11/11 3%

Thu 12/11 8%

Fri 13/11 15%

Sat 14/11 23%

Sun 15/11 33%

Mon 16/11 43%

Tue 17/11 54% First quarter

Wed 18/11 64%

Thu 19/11 74%

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Indian/Chagos); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Sea and tides near Downtown

Tide station used: Diego Garcia · 4 km away

Tide times in Downtown

🌊 Sea surface

29.2 °C

satellite, 7/11

Sea state

Slight

waves 1.3 m

Period

13 s

Swell

1.3 m

FriFri 06/11

Low tide 07:08 0.5 m

High tide 13:11 1.6 m

Low tide 19:28 0.3 m

TodaySat 07/11

High tide 01:37 1.6 m

Low tide 07:40 0.4 m

High tide 13:42 1.7 m

Low tide 19:59 0.3 m

TomorrowSun 08/11

High tide 02:09 1.7 m

Low tide 08:09 0.4 m

High tide 14:12 1.7 m

Low tide 20:28 0.2 m

MonMon 09/11

High tide 02:39 1.7 m

Low tide 08:37 0.3 m

High tide 14:41 1.7 m

Low tide 20:57 0.2 m

Heights above chart datum. Coefficient: 20 for the weakest tides, 120 for the strongest.

Look up a past day in Downtown

Curious about the weather in Downtown on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Downtown weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Downtown: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “rain showers”, it is 27 °C (feels like 39 °C) and the wind blows at 20 km/h.

Expected range today: 27 °C to 29 °C and around 10 mm of rain; keep an eye on thunderstorms. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms, plus the tide times for Diego Garcia.

Downtown weather data for developers

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1124 weather stations