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Preston weather

ENG · 313,332 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 17:04

Partly cloudy
12°
Partly cloudy
Feels like 12°C
Wind
9 km/h
Gusts
18 km/h
Humidity
89 %
Pressure
1028 hPa
Clouds
66 %
Storm
No
Rise 07:05 Set 16:43 Day 9 h 38 min UV 3 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Afternoon
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
14°
Feels like 14°
Wind ↑ SSE 12 km/h
Gusts 26 km/h
Humidity 80 %
Evening
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
12°11°
Feels like 12°
Wind ↑ SSE 9 km/h
Gusts 18 km/h
Humidity 89 %
18:00
Partly cloudy
12°
SSE 9
21:00
Partly cloudy
11°
ESE 7

Preston 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)
1°5°9°12°16°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed11°8°Thu 29 Oct: max 14° · min 9° · normal 9.9°Fri 30 Oct: max 13° · min 10° · normal 9.8°Sat 31 Oct: max 11° · min 7° · normal 9.7°Sun 1 Nov: max 11° · min 7° · normal 9.7°Mon 2 Nov: max 10° · min 5° · normal 9.5°Tue 3 Nov: max 11° · min 3° · normal 9.4°Wed 4 Nov: max 11° · min 8° · normal 9.3°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu2°9°16°14°3°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Preston climate: what a normal year looks like

From 17 h 05 min of daylight in late June to 7 h 25 min in late December.

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 19 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 3 °C.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 79 mm and 129 mm on average.

Even the coldest month, February, keeps nights above freezing on average (3 °C).

Forecast highs for the coming week average 12 °C, 1 °C cooler than a normal October (13 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan7 °C3 °C110 mm
Feb8 °C3 °C95 mm
Mar9 °C4 °C89 mm
Apr12 °C6 °C79 mm
May14 °C8 °C85 mm
Jun17 °C11 °C97 mm
Jul19 °C13 °C106 mm
Aug19 °C13 °C119 mm
Sep16 °C11 °C103 mm
Oct13 °C8 °C123 mm
Nov10 °C6 °C122 mm
Dec7 °C3 °C129 mm
Whole year13 °C7 °C1,260 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 53.76° N, 2.70° W, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Preston: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.514µg/m³
PM1022µg/m³
O₃35µg/m³
NO₂25µg/m³
SO₂1µg/m³

Pollen

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Preston

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

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

Moon over Preston

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 05:51 Set 00:03
Fri 30/10 79%
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon

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

Look up a past day in Preston

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

Preston weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Preston, ENG: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “partly cloudy”, it is 12 °C (feels like 12 °C) and the wind blows at 9 km/h.

Expected range today: 9 °C to 14 °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.

Preston weather data for developers

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations