Wallerawang, Australia

1. Sat5 AM53°9 mph
2. 6 AM54°9 mph
3. 7 AM55°11 mph
4. 8 AM55°11 mph
5. 9 AM59°10 mph
6. 10 AM65°13 mph
7. 11 AM66°14 mph
8. 12 PM67°16 mph
9. 1 PM68°17 mph
10. 2 PM68°14 mph
11. 3 PM65°17 mph
12. 4 PM62°12 mph
13. 5 PM62°9 mph
14. 6 PM58°9 mph
15. 7 PM55°7 mph
16. 8 PM54°8 mph
17. 9 PM53°8 mph
18. 10 PM52°6 mph
19. 11 PM51°5 mph
20. Sun12 AM51°6 mph
21. 1 AM49°6 mph
22. 3 AM48°6 mph
23. 4 AM47°6 mph
24. 5 AM46°6 mph
25. 6 AM45°6 mph
26. 7 AM45°8 mph
27. 8 AM47°9 mph
28. 9 AM51°10 mph
29. 10 AM55°10 mph
30. 11 AM58°10 mph
31. 12 PM61°9 mph
32. 1 PM64°8 mph
33. 2 PM65°7 mph
34. 3 PM66°6 mph
35. 4 PM66°6 mph
36. 5 PM65°6 mph
37. 6 PM62°5 mph
38. 7 PM56°5 mph
39. 8 PM53°4 mph
40. 9 PM51°5 mph
41. 10 PM50°6 mph
42. 11 PM48°3 mph
43. Mon12 AM48°3 mph
44. 1 AM48°3 mph
45. 2 AM49°4 mph
46. 3 AM49°3 mph
47. 4 AM47°3 mph
48. 5 AM47°4 mph

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1. TodayOct 368°53°Light rain—0.10 inwind 17 mph
2. SunOct 466°47°Fog—wind 10 mph
3. MonOct 564°50°Light rain—wind 9 mph
4. TueOct 664°44°Mostly clear—0.01 inwind 15 mph
5. WedOct 754°42°Cloudy—0.02 inwind 13 mph
6. ThuOct 863°43°Mostly clear—wind 9 mph
7. FriOct 971°60°Clear—wind 12 mph
8. SatOct 1067°44°Mostly clear—0.01 inwind 15 mph
9. SunOct 1164°54°Partly cloudy—wind 11 mph
10. MonOct 1271°54°No forecast—wind 12 mph
11. TueOct 13~58°41°Model mean0.12 in
12. WedOct 14~58°40°Model mean0.01 in
13. ThuOct 15~56°44°Model mean0.03 in
14. FriOct 16~60°45°Model mean0.29 in
15. SatOct 17~64°49°Model mean0.38 in
16. SunOct 18~49°45°Model mean2.35 in

• Feels like49°
• WindN 9 mph
• Humidity99%
• Dew point53°
• Pressure30.21 inHg
• UV index0 · Lowclear-sky peak 8 today
• Sunrise and sunsetSunrise · Sunset
• Moonrise12:22 AMMoonset 10:01 AM
• Moon phaseLast quarter60% 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: 2 dark, clear hours without a bright moon, from 10:00 PM. Rated fair.

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

• Sat 5 PM to 7 PM 2 hours, every hour within the rules
• Sun 10 AM to 9 PM 11 hours, every hour within the rules
• Mon 12 PM to 10 PM 10 hours, every hour within the rules
• Thu 5 PM to 11 PM 6 hours, every hour within the rules
• Fri 11 PM to Sat 11 AM 12 hours, every hour within the rules
• Sat 11 PM to Sun 5 AM 6 hours, every hour within the rules
• Sun 11 AM to 5 PM 6 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 good.

Periods in bold fall within an hour of sunrise or sunset. The weather’s side is the fishing index · Solunar tables for Wallerawang, 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. Tonight53° · N 9 mph

   Heavy rain. Low near 12°C. North wind around 14 km/h. Precipitation around 1.0 mm.

2. Saturday68° · N 9–17 mph

   Light rain. High near 20°C. North wind 14 to 27 km/h. Precipitation around 1.6 mm.

3. Saturday Night46° · NW 6–9 mph

   Fog. Low near 8°C. Northwest wind 9 to 14 km/h.

4. Sunday66° · WSW 6–9 mph

   Fog. High near 19°C. Westsouthwest wind 9 to 15 km/h.

5. Sunday Night47° · E 3–6 mph

   Fog. Low near 9°C. East wind 5 to 9 km/h.

6. Monday64° · WNW 2–9 mph

   Light rain. High near 18°C. Westnorthwest wind 4 to 15 km/h.

7. Monday Night50° · WSW 4–7 mph

   Cloudy. Low near 10°C. Westsouthwest wind 7 to 11 km/h.

8. Tuesday64° · W 11–14 mph

   Mostly clear. High near 18°C. West wind 17 to 23 km/h.

9. Tuesday Night44° · S 8–12 mph

   Cloudy. Low near 7°C. South wind 13 to 19 km/h.

10. Wednesday54° · SE 11–12 mph

    Cloudy. High near 12°C. Southeast wind 17 to 20 km/h.

11. Wednesday Night42° · SSE 7–9 mph

    Cloudy. Low near 6°C. Southsoutheast wind 12 to 14 km/h.

12. Thursday63° · SSW 1–6 mph

    Mostly clear. High near 17°C. Southsouthwest wind 1 to 10 km/h.

13. Thursday Night43° · N 3–6 mph

    Clear. Low near 6°C. North wind 5 to 9 km/h.

14. Friday71° · NW 11–12 mph

    Clear. High near 21°C. Northwest wind 17 to 19 km/h.

15. Friday Night60° · WNW 9–9 mph

    Cloudy. Low near 16°C. Westnorthwest wind 14 to 15 km/h.

16. Saturday67° · W 14–16 mph

    Mostly clear. High near 19°C. West wind 22 to 25 km/h.

17. Saturday Night44° · SSW 3–4 mph

    Clear. Low near 7°C. Southsouthwest wind 5 to 6 km/h.

18. Sunday64° · E 9–11 mph

    Partly cloudy. High near 18°C. East wind 15 to 17 km/h.

19. Sunday Night54° · NE 7–9 mph

    Cloudy. Low near 12°C. Northeast wind 12 to 14 km/h.

20. Monday71° · NNW 12 mph

    No forecast. High near 22°C. Northnorthwest wind around 19 km/h.

Climate of Wallerawang: 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.