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Scott Base weather

Other · Saturday, November 7 · updated 07:39

Air: Good
Mainly clear
-10°
Mainly clear
Feels like -10°C
Wind
2 km/h
Gusts
6 km/h
Humidity
73 %
Pressure
983 hPa
Clouds
36 %
Storm
No
Rise — Set — UV 4 · Moderate

Scott Base 14-day forecast

Trend
Morning
Mainly clear
Mainly clear
-10°-11°
Feels like -10°
Wind ↑ WSW 3 km/h
Humidity 73 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
Mainly clear
-9°-10°
Feels like -9°
Wind ↑ SSW 5 km/h
Humidity 71 %
Evening
Clear sky
Clear sky
-10°-15°
Feels like -15°
Wind ↑ SSE 9 km/h
Humidity 70 %
💧 0.1 mm
13:00
Clear sky
-9°
SSW 5
16:00
Mainly clear
-10°
ESE 4
19:00
Clear sky
-10°
0.1mm
SSE 9
22:00
Clear sky
-15°
NE 7
01:00
Clear sky
-13°
SE 10
04:00
Clear sky
-17°
NE 7
07:00
Clear sky
-13°
SE 11
10:00
Clear sky
-14°
ESE 4

Rain radar around Scott Base

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Scott Base, 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

No open weather radar covers Scott Base yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Air you breathe in Scott Base: 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.

Scott Base 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)
-23°-19°-14°-10°-5°TodayThuFriSatSunMonTue-10°-19°Wed 4 Nov: max -9° · min -14° · normal -13.2°Thu 5 Nov: max -8° · min -12° · normal -12.9°Fri 6 Nov: max -7° · min -16° · normal -12.6°Sat 7 Nov: max -9° · min -17° · normal -12.3°Sun 8 Nov: max -12° · min -17° · normal -11.9°Mon 9 Nov: max -13° · min -22° · normal -11.6°Tue 10 Nov: max -10° · min -19° · normal -11.3°

Hourly detail

SatSunMonTueWedThuFriSat-23°-15°-7°-9°-22°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Moon over Scott Base

Waning crescent
6 % illuminated · 27.3 days
Rise 02:43 Set —
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 (Antarctica/McMurdo); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Sea and tides near Scott Base

Tide station used: Scott Base

Tide times in Scott Base
🌊 Sea surface
-1.8 °C
satellite, 7/11
Sea state
Calm
waves 0.0 m
Period
1 s
Swell
0.0 m
FriFri 06/11
Low tide 15:02 0.5 m
High tide 22:13 1.0 m
TodaySat 07/11
Low tide 15:09 0.4 m
High tide 23:10 1.0 m
TomorrowSun 08/11
Low tide 15:06 0.3 m
MonMon 09/11
High tide 00:19 1.1 m
Low tide 14:58 0.3 m

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

Look up a past day in Scott Base

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

Scott Base weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Scott Base, Other: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is -10 °C (feels like -10 °C) and the wind blows at 2 km/h.

Expected range today: -17 °C to -9 °C and a dry sky. 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 Scott Base.

Scott Base weather data for developers

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