Toormina, Australia

1. Wed2 PM70°19 mph
2. 3 PM69°19 mph
3. 4 PM67°20 mph
4. 5 PM65°19 mph
5. 6 PM62°18 mph
6. 7 PM61°17 mph
7. 8 PM59°15 mph
8. 9 PM58°14 mph
9. 10 PM58°14 mph
10. 11 PM58°13 mph
11. Thu12 AM58°14 mph
12. 1 AM57°14 mph
13. 2 AM57°14 mph
14. 3 AM57°14 mph
15. 4 AM56°14 mph
16. 5 AM56°15 mph
17. 6 AM57°15 mph
18. 7 AM61°16 mph
19. 8 AM66°17 mph
20. 9 AM69°19 mph
21. 10 AM71°18 mph
22. 11 AM73°17 mph
23. 12 PM75°19 mph
24. 1 PM74°23 mph
25. 2 PM72°23 mph
26. 3 PM70°22 mph
27. 4 PM69°23 mph
28. 5 PM67°23 mph
29. 6 PM64°23 mph
30. 7 PM63°23 mph
31. 8 PM62°20 mph
32. 9 PM61°17 mph
33. 10 PM61°16 mph
34. 11 PM60°16 mph
35. Fri12 AM60°17 mph
36. 1 AM60°18 mph
37. 2 AM59°18 mph
38. 3 AM58°17 mph
39. 4 AM57°16 mph
40. 5 AM57°17 mph
41. 6 AM58°17 mph
42. 7 AM62°17 mph
43. 8 AM66°18 mph
44. 9 AM70°19 mph
45. 10 AM73°19 mph
46. 11 AM75°20 mph
47. 12 PM76°23 mph
48. 1 PM74°24 mph

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1. TodaySep 3070°56°Clear—wind 20 mph
2. ThuOct 175°57°Partly cloudy—wind 23 mph
3. FriOct 276°58°Partly cloudy—wind 24 mph
4. SatOct 372°61°Cloudy—wind 17 mph
5. SunOct 474°61°Mostly clear—wind 14 mph
6. MonOct 574°61°Partly cloudy—0.08 inwind 13 mph
7. TueOct 677°61°Rain showers—0.44 inwind 8 mph
8. WedOct 768°55°Mostly clear—wind 19 mph
9. ThuOct 869°54°Mostly clear—wind 14 mph
10. FriOct 968°54°Clear—wind 11 mph
11. SatOct 10~75°56°Model mean0.15 in
12. SunOct 11~83°63°Model mean0.11 in
13. MonOct 12~73°62°Model mean0.25 in
14. TueOct 13~70°59°Model mean0.09 in
15. WedOct 14~71°57°Model mean0.10 in
16. ThuOct 15~64°51°Model mean

• Feels like70°
• WindNE 19 mph
• Humidity49%
• Dew point50°
• Pressure30.32 inHg
• UV index5 · Moderateclear-sky peak 5 today
• Sunrise and sunsetSunrise · Sunset
• Moonrise9:45 PMMoonset 7:13 AM
• Moon phaseWaning gibbous87% 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.

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

Tonight: 3 dark, clear hours without a bright moon, from 7:00 PM. Rated good.

The last night runs past the end of the forecast and is rated on the hours it covers.

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

• Tue 5 PM to 11 PM 6 hours, every hour within the rules
• Wed 5 AM to 11 AM 6 hours, every hour within the rules
• Fri 11 AM to 11 PM 12 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 Wednesday, rated fair.

Periods in bold fall within an hour of sunrise or sunset. The weather’s side is the fishing index · Solunar tables for Toormina, by month

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 Afternoon70° · NE 19–20 mph

   Clear. High near 21°C. Northeast wind 30 to 32 km/h.

2. Tonight56° · NNW 14–19 mph

   Mostly clear. Low near 13°C. Northnorthwest wind 22 to 30 km/h.

3. Thursday75° · NNE 16–23 mph

   Partly cloudy. High near 24°C. Northnortheast wind 25 to 37 km/h.

4. Thursday Night57° · NNW 16–23 mph

   Partly cloudy. Low near 14°C. Northnorthwest wind 26 to 37 km/h.

5. Friday76° · NNE 17–24 mph

   Partly cloudy. High near 24°C. Northnortheast wind 27 to 39 km/h.

6. Friday Night58° · NNW 15–22 mph

   Mostly clear. Low near 15°C. Northnorthwest wind 24 to 36 km/h.

7. Saturday72° · NNE 12–14 mph

   Cloudy. High near 22°C. Northnortheast wind 19 to 23 km/h.

8. Saturday Night61° · NNW 10–11 mph

   Mostly clear. Low near 16°C. Northnorthwest wind 16 to 17 km/h.

9. Sunday74° · NNE 12–14 mph

   Mostly clear. High near 23°C. Northnortheast wind 19 to 22 km/h.

10. Sunday Night61° · NNW 9–10 mph

    Partly cloudy. Low near 16°C. Northnorthwest wind 15 to 16 km/h.

11. Monday74° · NNE 11–12 mph

    Partly cloudy. High near 23°C. Northnortheast wind 18 to 20 km/h.

12. Monday Night61° · N 7–8 mph

    Heavy rain showers. Low near 16°C. North wind 12 to 13 km/h. Precipitation around 11 mm.

13. Tuesday77° · N 4–7 mph

    Rain showers. High near 25°C. North wind 7 to 12 km/h. Precipitation around 1.9 mm.

14. Tuesday Night61° · WNW 3–4 mph

    Clear. Low near 16°C. Westnorthwest wind 5 to 6 km/h.

15. Wednesday68° · S 16–19 mph

    Mostly clear. High near 20°C. South wind 26 to 31 km/h.

16. Wednesday Night55° · SW 11–12 mph

    Mostly clear. Low near 13°C. Southwest wind 18 to 19 km/h.

17. Thursday69° · S 12–14 mph

    Mostly clear. High near 20°C. South wind 19 to 22 km/h.

18. Thursday Night54° · SW 10–11 mph

    Clear. Low near 12°C. Southwest wind 16 to 18 km/h.

19. Friday68° · SSE 7 mph

    Clear. High near 20°C. Southsoutheast wind around 11 km/h.

20. Friday Night54° · WNW 4 mph

    No forecast. Low near 12°C. Westnorthwest wind around 7 km/h.

Climate of Toormina: 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.