35.0950, -96.5460

1. Tue4 PM89°2%13 mph
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1. TodaySep 2990°70°Mostly Sunny3%wind 13 mph · gusts 20 mph
2. WedSep 3089°70°Mostly Cloudy then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms70%0.44 inwind 16 mph · gusts 25 mph
3. ThuOct 179°66°Showers And Thunderstorms96%2.52 inwind 14 mph · gusts 21 mph
4. FriOct 276°63°Rain Showers Likely58%0.55 inwind 10 mph · gusts 17 mph
5. SatOct 375°61°Chance Showers And Thunderstorms43%0.57 inwind 8 mph
6. SunOct 478°57°Partly Sunny10%wind 10 mph · gusts 18 mph
7. MonOct 578°55°Sunny2%wind 8 mph
8. TueOct 680°55°4%wind 5 mph

• Feels like89°
• WindS 13 mphgusts 20 mph
• Radar over this pointno reading
• Humidity39%
• Dew point61°
• Pressure—
• UV index—
• Air quality—
• Visibility—
• Sunrise and sunsetSunrise · Sunset
• Moonrise8:50 PMMoonset 10:37 AM
• Moon phaseWaning gibbous90% lit

No forecast has skill day by day past about two weeks, and this page does not print one. Where the models stop, the calendar takes over: the 1991 to 2020 normal for each date, the record high and low ever set on it, and where the Climate Prediction Center leans warm, cool, wet or dry over the coming weeks, the month and the season. A site that shows a high for a date three months out is showing you this normal with a wobble.

The forecast reaches Tue Oct 6, from the NWS grid, then the National Blend, then the mean of the global models. Beyond it the lines are the calendar.

Forecast high and lowNormal high and lowRecord high and low

None of these is a measurement. Each is a rating of the forecast ahead, and of what is happening at the point right now, against what the activity or the ailment is known to mind, and each names the figure that decided it. An ailment or a pest is rated as a risk, low to extreme; an activity, a chore or a journey as a condition, poor to ideal.

Each rating says which span it is for: the rest of today’s daylight, tonight, or the next 24 hours.

Tonight has no dark, clear hour without a bright moon in this forecast. Rated poor.

Dark is the sun 18 degrees below the horizon; where it never gets that low, 12 degrees, marked nautical. Clear is sky cover of 20% or less. A bright moon is one above the horizon with a quarter or more of its disc lit. Transparency in the table is estimated from surface humidity (70% and 85% mark fair and poor) and visibility, since the forecast carries no haze or high cloud moisture. Seeing and transparency by hour, where shown, are Environment and Climate Change Canada’s astronomy forecast (regional model; seeing from cloud, wind shear, turbulence near the ground and the surface temperature trend; transparency from the moisture through the whole air column), under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Dew is the air within 2 °C of its dew point. Excellent is four or more clear moonless hours with good transparency; good is three; fair is one, or two clear hours.

Golden hour is the sun between 6 degrees above the horizon and 4 degrees below it; blue hour is the sun between 4 and 6 degrees below. These are the definitions timeanddate.com and PhotoPills use. Directions are degrees clockwise from true north, where the sun’s upper edge and the moon’s center cross a flat horizon; hills and buildings change both. None means the sun does not reach that height on the day; all day means it stays inside the band.

This hour: no-fly (gusts near or over your limit, wind at 400 ft near or over your limit). No stretch of two good hours in the next three days.

Today: civil twilight for Part 107 6:50 AM to sunrise 7:20 AM, and sunset 7:13 PM to 7:43 PM. Anti-collision lighting is required in those minutes and at night.

Good Caution No-fly

Flight restrictions nearby

Reading the FAA’s temporary flight restrictions.

Flight restrictions on the map. TFRs are not the whole picture: controlled airspace around airports needs LAANC authorization. Check the FAA’s B4UFLY.

Wind at 400 ft is estimated from the 10 m forecast by the power law, with exponents for each Pasquill stability class (Irwin 1979, rural, as in EPA dispersion models; the class from wind, sun height and cloud, after Turner 1970); gusts keep the ground gust’s margin. Caution from three quarters of your limit; the default 24 mph is the wind resistance printed for common sub-250 g drones. 14 CFR 107.51: “The minimum flight visibility, as observed from the location of the control station must be no less than 3 statute miles” and at least “500 feet below the cloud”. 14 CFR 107.29: “No person may operate a small unmanned aircraft system during periods of civil twilight unless the small unmanned aircraft has lighted anti-collision lighting visible for at least 3 statute miles”; civil twilight is the 30 minutes before sunrise and after sunset, in Alaska the Air Almanac’s. Kp: SWPC’s scales say satellite navigation problems may occur at G3 (Kp 7) and navigation is “degraded for hours” at G4 (Kp 8); Kp 5 is the typical app warning. Typical limits, not rules: rain chance 30% caution and 60% no-fly, thunder 10% and 20%, below 0 °C caution and −10 °C no-fly, over 40 °C caution. Your drone’s manual and the airspace come first.

Hours fit for spraying, and the days dry enough for fieldwork and hay, read from this forecast’s wind, gusts, humidity, temperature and rain.

Spraying windows

• Tue 7 PM to Wed 1 AM 6 hours, some with delta T between 8 and 10 °C
• Sat 7 PM to 10 PM 3 hours, every hour within the rules
• Sun 6 PM to Mon 3 AM 9 hours, every hour within the rules
• Mon 10 AM to Tue 12 AM 14 hours, every hour within the rules
• Tue 9 AM to 4 PM 7 hours, some with delta T between 8 and 10 °C

Good Marginal No

Field days

Spraying: sustained wind 3 to 10 mph, the range US extension services and most labels give; gusts no more than 15 mph (this page’s limit); delta T (air minus wet-bulb temperature) 2 to 8 °C preferred and 8 to 10 °C marginal, from GRDC guidance, with the wet bulb by Stull’s formula; no hour at a 30% chance of rain or 0.25 mm forecast during the rain-free time. Follow the product label, which overrides all of this. Field days: dry is no daytime hour at a 30% chance and under 1 mm all day, wet is 6 mm (0.25 in) or more; soil moisture is not in the forecast, so ground still wet from earlier rain is not accounted for. Hay drying marks a dry day with humidity down to 50% and a breeze of 5 mph or more.

The best-rated day this week is Tuesday, rated fair.

Periods in bold fall within an hour of sunrise or sunset. The weather’s side is the fishing index

Major periods are two hours centered on the moon’s passage overhead and underfoot; minor periods are one hour centered on moonrise and moonset: the conventional durations of John Alden Knight’s solunar tables (1936). The rating is this site’s: one point to start, two more within a day and a half of a new or full moon (one more within three and a half days), and one more when a period falls within an hour of sunrise or sunset. The theory has mixed support in fisheries research; the times are exact astronomy.

1. This Afternoon90° · 2% · S 13 mph

   Mostly sunny, with a high near 90. South wind around 13 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

2. Tonight74° · 2% · SSE 7–12 mph

   Mostly cloudy, with a low around 74. South southeast wind 7 to 12 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.

3. Wednesday89° · 24% · S 13–16 mph

   A slight chance of rain showers between 1pm and 4pm, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 89. South wind 13 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.

4. Wednesday Night70° · 96% · S 14 mph

   A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7pm, then showers and thunderstorms. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 70. South wind around 14 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%.

5. Thursday79° · 96% · S 8–14 mph

   Showers and thunderstorms. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Cloudy, with a high near 79. South wind 8 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%.

6. Thursday Night66° · 76% · ESE 2–7 mph

   Showers and thunderstorms before 7pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 7pm and 10pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 66. Chance of precipitation is 80%.

7. Friday76° · 58% · NNE 5–10 mph

   Rain showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 76. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

8. Friday Night63° · 58% · NNE 7–10 mph

   Rain showers likely before 7pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 63. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

9. Saturday75° · 43% · NNE 8 mph

   A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 75. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

10. Saturday Night61° · 30% · NNE 3–7 mph

    A chance of rain showers before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 61. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

11. Sunday78° · 10% · NNE 6–10 mph

    Partly sunny, with a high near 78.

12. Sunday Night57° · 7% · NNE 8 mph

    Mostly clear, with a low around 57.

13. Monday78° · 2% · NE 8 mph

    Sunny, with a high near 78.

14. Monday Night55° · 3% · ENE 2–6 mph

    Clear, with a low around 55.

Written by the forecaster on duty for their own colleagues and for anyone who wants to know why the forecast says what it says. It is not edited for the public, so it uses the office’s shorthand; it is also the most honest thing any weather service publishes.

The national centers each publish a judgment the local grid does not carry. Read here at this exact coordinate.

Reading the outlooks…

The last spring freeze (32°F) usually comes around April 6 and the first fall freeze around October 31: a growing season of about 206 days.

One fall in ten brings a freeze by October 17; one spring in ten still has one after April 24.

Climate of 35.09, -96.55: normals, records and every month

The forecast office edits about sixty fields for every cell of its grid. The common ones are above; these are the rest, as the daily extreme, for anyone who needs the mixing height, the fire danger or the swell.

Each forecast day against the same calendar date at the nearest long-record station: the 1991 to 2020 normal, and the record high and low with the year they were set.