5.3502, 162.9498

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1. TodayOct 183°83°Partly cloudy—wind 10 mph
2. FriOct 284°82°Partly cloudy—wind 17 mph
3. SatOct 385°83°Light rain showers—0.03 inwind 19 mph
4. SunOct 484°82°Light rain showers—0.12 inwind 19 mph
5. MonOct 582°81°Light rain—0.43 inwind 15 mph
6. TueOct 684°82°Light rain showers—0.06 inwind 19 mph
7. WedOct 784°81°Mostly clear—0.09 inwind 18 mph
8. ThuOct 884°82°Cloudy—0.20 inwind 16 mph
9. FriOct 982°81°Rain—0.47 inwind 15 mph
10. SatOct 1083°82°Heavy rain showers—0.37 inwind 18 mph
11. SunOct 1183°82°No forecast—0.18 inwind 20 mph
12. MonOct 12~83°81°Model mean0.17 in
13. TueOct 13~83°79°Model mean1.22 in
14. WedOct 14~81°79°Model mean1.75 in
15. ThuOct 15~82°81°Model mean0.43 in
16. FriOct 16~83°83°Model mean0.29 in

• Feels like89°
• WindW 10 mph
• Humidity73%
• Dew point73°
• Pressure29.93 inHg
• UV index0 · Lowclear-sky peak 14 Friday
• Sunrise and sunsetSunrise · Sunset · set
• Moonrise9:48 PMMoonset 9:39 AM
• Moon phaseWaning gibbous79% lit

Each line is one model’s own forecast at its own grid cell: three kilometers for HRRR, a quarter of a degree for the global models, which can sit a few hundred meters above or below the town. Where they agree the forecast is settled; where they part is where it is not.

NWS gridGFSGEFS ± spreadECMWFECMWF AI

A ~ marks a high or low read from six-hourly steps, which miss the true extreme by a degree or two.

ECMWF ensemble meteogram

10 daysTemperature plume

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.

The sun is down, so each rating says which span it is for: tomorrow’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.

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

• Fri 7 AM to 11 AM 4 hours, every hour within the rules

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 Friday, 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. Tonight82° · W 10–11 mph

   Partly cloudy. Low near 28°C. West wind 16 to 18 km/h.

2. Friday84° · WNW 8–16 mph

   Partly cloudy. High near 29°C. Westnorthwest wind 13 to 25 km/h.

3. Friday Night83° · NW 15–17 mph

   Partly cloudy. Low near 28°C. Northwest wind 24 to 27 km/h.

4. Saturday85° · NW 16–19 mph

   Light rain showers. High near 29°C. Northwest wind 26 to 31 km/h.

5. Saturday Night83° · NNW 15–19 mph

   Light rain showers. Low near 28°C. Northnorthwest wind 24 to 31 km/h. Precipitation around 0.5 mm.

6. Sunday84° · NNW 14–16 mph

   Light rain showers. High near 29°C. Northnorthwest wind 23 to 26 km/h. Precipitation around 3 mm.

7. Sunday Night82° · NW 14–15 mph

   Heavy rain showers. Low near 28°C. Northwest wind 23 to 24 km/h. Precipitation around 9 mm.

8. Monday82° · NW 12–14 mph

   Light rain. High near 28°C. Northwest wind 19 to 23 km/h. Precipitation around 1.9 mm.

9. Monday Night81° · NW 15–16 mph

   Cloudy. Low near 27°C. Northwest wind 24 to 25 km/h. Precipitation around 0.5 mm.

10. Tuesday84° · WNW 16–19 mph

    Light rain showers. High near 29°C. Westnorthwest wind 26 to 30 km/h. Precipitation around 1.1 mm.

11. Tuesday Night82° · WNW 15–19 mph

    Light rain showers. Low near 28°C. Westnorthwest wind 24 to 30 km/h. Precipitation around 0.7 mm.

12. Wednesday84° · W 14 mph

    Mostly clear. High near 29°C. West wind around 22 km/h. Precipitation around 0.6 mm.

13. Wednesday Night81° · WSW 14–16 mph

    Heavy rain showers. Low near 27°C. Westsouthwest wind 23 to 25 km/h. Precipitation around 5 mm.

14. Thursday84° · WSW 13–15 mph

    Cloudy. High near 29°C. Westsouthwest wind 21 to 24 km/h. Precipitation around 0.5 mm.

15. Thursday Night82° · W 9–12 mph

    Heavy rain. Low near 28°C. West wind 15 to 19 km/h. Precipitation around 10 mm.

16. Friday82° · W 13–15 mph

    Rain. High near 28°C. West wind 21 to 24 km/h. Precipitation around 1.9 mm.

17. Friday Night81° · W 14–16 mph

    Rain. Low near 27°C. West wind 23 to 26 km/h. Precipitation around 1.5 mm.

18. Saturday83° · W 16–17 mph

    Heavy rain showers. High near 28°C. West wind 26 to 27 km/h. Precipitation around 7 mm.

19. Saturday Night82° · WSW 17–20 mph

    Rain. Low near 28°C. Westsouthwest wind 28 to 32 km/h. Precipitation around 5 mm.

20. Sunday83° · WSW 19 mph

    No forecast. High near 29°C. Westsouthwest wind around 31 km/h.

Climate of 5.35, 162.95: 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.