Current weather · Sep 25, 11:06 AM GMT+1

Blackwood, United Kingdom

61°

CloudyFeels like 61° · Humidity 84%MET Norway forecast for this hourForecast by MET Norway
High
64°
Low
49°
Precip today
0.00 in
Sunrise
7:04 AM
Sunset
7:04 PM

Hour by hour

MET Norway, hourly to about 60 hours, then every six hours

Scroll sideways for more hours. Pick an hour for every number.

Every hour as a table48 hours
TimeWeatherTemperatureFeels likeDew pointHumidityChanceAmountSnowDirWindGustSky coverThunderPressureVisibilityCeiling
Fri 11 AM61°61°56°84%—W7 mph100%30.09 inHg—
Fri 12 PM61°61°56°81%—NW6 mph100%30.09 inHg—
Fri 1 PM62°62°55°78%—NNW5 mph88%30.09 inHg—
Fri 2 PM64°64°55°73%—NW5 mph95%30.09 inHg—
Fri 3 PM64°64°54°70%—NW7 mph81%30.08 inHg—
Fri 4 PM62°62°53°70%—NW9 mph100%30.09 inHg—
Fri 5 PM61°61°51°69%—NW9 mph94%30.10 inHg—
Fri 6 PM59°59°48°68%—NW9 mph98%30.11 inHg—
Fri 7 PM57°55°46°68%—NW8 mph100%30.13 inHg—
Fri 8 PM55°53°47°73%—NW8 mph100%30.14 inHg—
Fri 9 PM54°52°47°76%—NW7 mph100%30.16 inHg—
Fri 10 PM53°52°47°80%—NW6 mph81%30.16 inHg—
Fri 11 PM51°49°47°86%—WNW7 mph24%30.18 inHg—
Sat 12 AM50°47°47°90%—WNW7 mph44%30.18 inHg—
Sat 1 AM50°47°47°92%—WNW7 mph66%30.18 inHg—
Sat 2 AM50°47°47°92%—WNW7 mph84%30.19 inHg—
Sat 3 AM50°47°47°92%—WNW7 mph95%30.18 inHg—
Sat 4 AM50°47°47°92%—WNW6 mph99%30.18 inHg—
Sat 5 AM49°47°47°92%—WNW6 mph63%30.18 inHg—
Sat 6 AM49°47°47°91%—W6 mph61%30.19 inHg—
Sat 7 AM50°47°47°91%—WNW6 mph80%30.19 inHg—
Sat 8 AM51°49°48°89%—W6 mph56%30.20 inHg—
Sat 9 AM55°53°51°84%—W7 mph77%30.21 inHg—
Sat 10 AM58°56°51°77%—WSW9 mph92%30.21 inHg—
Sat 11 AM60°60°50°70%—WSW9 mph99%30.22 inHg—
Sat 12 PM61°61°49°65%—WSW8 mph96%30.22 inHg—
Sat 1 PM61°61°49°63%—WSW8 mph88%30.21 inHg—
Sat 2 PM61°61°49°64%—SW8 mph93%30.21 inHg—
Sat 3 PM61°61°50°66%—SW8 mph41%30.20 inHg—
Sat 4 PM61°61°50°66%—SW8 mph45%30.19 inHg—
Sat 5 PM60°60°49°66%—SW7 mph56%30.17 inHg—
Sat 6 PM59°59°50°71%—SW5 mph72%30.17 inHg—
Sat 7 PM55°56°50°81%—SW3 mph97%30.17 inHg—
Sat 8 PM54°54°50°85%—W2 mph99%30.16 inHg—
Sat 9 PM53°53°49°87%—W2 mph99%30.16 inHg—
Sat 10 PM53°53°49°87%—W2 mph81%30.15 inHg—
Sat 11 PM53°53°49°87%—W2 mph79%30.14 inHg—
Sun 12 AM52°52°48°88%—SSW2 mph99%30.12 inHg—
Sun 1 AM51°50°48°90%—ESE4 mph100%30.10 inHg—
Sun 2 AM52°50°49°92%—SE5 mph99%30.08 inHg—
Sun 3 AM51°49°50°95%—SE7 mph100%30.05 inHg—
Sun 4 AM51°48°50°96%—SSE8 mph99%30.02 inHg—
Sun 5 AM51°47°49°95%—SSE9 mph98%30.00 inHg—
Sun 6 AM51°47°48°90%—SE9 mph97%29.97 inHg—
Sun 7 AM50°47°48°91%—SE10 mph72%29.95 inHg—
Sun 8 AM52°48°49°89%—SE11 mph95%29.93 inHg—
Sun 9 AMModerate rain56°53°53°88%—0.04 inSSE12 mph98%29.91 inHg—
Sun 10 AMHeavy rain57°54°56°96%—0.06 inSSE12 mph99%29.89 inHg—

The next 16 days

MET Norway forecast updated Sep 25, 10:19 AM GMT+1 to day 10, the mean of GFS, ECMWF, ECMWF AI to day 16
  1. TodaySep 2564°49°Cloudy—wind 9 mph
  2. SatSep 2661°51°Partly cloudy—wind 9 mph
  3. SunSep 2762°51°Heavy rain—0.28 inwind 15 mph
  4. MonSep 2860°51°Mostly clear—wind 8 mph
  5. TueSep 2964°59°Heavy rain—0.55 inwind 16 mph
  6. WedSep 3063°53°Light rain showers—0.22 inwind 16 mph
  7. ThuOct 159°48°Rain showers—0.24 inwind 11 mph
  8. FriOct 257°49°Light rain showers—0.03 inwind 9 mph
  9. SatOct 358°53°Partly cloudy—0.04 inwind 12 mph
  10. SunOct 461°51°Partly cloudy—wind 11 mph
  11. MonOct 5~59°48°Model mean0.10 in
  12. TueOct 6~57°50°Model mean0.14 in
  13. WedOct 7~57°52°Model mean0.31 in
  14. ThuOct 8~60°52°Model mean0.13 in
  15. FriOct 9~58°49°Model mean0.03 in
  16. SatOct 10~47°40°Model mean0.11 in

Right now

MET Norway forecast for this hour
  • Feels like61°
  • WindW 7 mph
  • Humidity84%
  • Dew point56°
  • Pressure30.09 inHg
  • UV index3 · Moderateclear-sky peak 4 today
  • Sunrise and sunsetSunrise · Sunset
  • Moonrise6:28 PMMoonset 5:26 AM
  • Moon phaseWaxing gibbous98% lit

The models, side by side

GFS Sep 25, 1:00 AM GMT+1 · GEFS Sep 25, 1:00 AM GMT+1 · ECMWF Sep 25, 1:00 AM GMT+1 · ECMWF AI Sep 25, 1:00 AM GMT+1

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.

41°55°68°SatSunMonTueWedThuFri

DayNWS gridGFSGEFSECMWFECMWF AI
Today Sep 2564° 49°63° 52°65° 52°0.02 in61° 52°0.01 in~61° 55°0.02 in
Sat Sep 2661° 51°61° 45°62° 46°60° 49°~62° 46°
Sun Sep 2762° 51°0.28 in61° 44°0.04 in63° 47°0.09 in60° 50°0.28 in~60° 49°0.32 in
Mon Sep 2860° 51°60° 49°62° 51°0.06 in59° 48°~60° 46°
Tue Sep 2964° 59°0.55 in64° 53°0.41 in67° 52°0.21 in63° 48°0.72 in~66° 51°0.60 in
Wed Sep 3063° 53°0.22 in62° 49°0.27 in63° 53°0.37 in60° 52°0.24 in~64° 57°0.31 in
Thu Oct 159° 48°0.24 in61° 49°0.05 in61° 50°0.17 in~57° 50°0.13 in~58° 49°0.16 in
Fri Oct 257° 49°0.03 in61° 47°60° 49°0.05 in~59° 48°0.04 in~60° 49°0.06 in
Sat Oct 358° 53°0.04 in65° 47°60° 47°0.08 in~57° 54°0.69 in~63° 54°0.02 in
Sun Oct 461° 51°62° 51°0.03 in61° 48°0.04 in~53° 46°0.03 in~65° 49°
Mon Oct 5—~57° 46°~50° 50°~53° 46°0.28 in~67° 50°0.01 in
Tue Oct 6—~53° 48°0.17 in—~56° 44°~61° 56°0.23 in
Wed Oct 7—~53° 46°0.03 in—~58° 49°~61° 59°0.89 in
Thu Oct 8—~58° 53°0.22 in—~58° 46°~64° 58°0.17 in
Fri Oct 9—~50° 43°0.06 in—~51° 51°~66° 54°
Sat Oct 10—~47° 40°0.11 in——~57° 57°

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

ECMWF ensemble meteogram

ECMWF ensemble meteogram for this place: box plots of cloud cover, precipitation, wind speed and temperature from the 51 ensemble members for ten days.
Rendered by ECMWF from its 51-member ensemble, in metric units: each box spans the middle half of the members, the whiskers the rest, the line the control run. A forecast, not an observation. © ECMWF, CC BY 4.0.

Health and activities

Rules of thumb over the next 24 hours of forecast, the warnings in force, the station’s report, air quality and pollen

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.

Health

  • Arthritisnext 24 hModeratehumid
  • Sinus pressurenext 24 hModeratepressure swing
  • Common coldtodayLowmild
  • FlutodayLowmild
  • Migrainenext 24 hLowsteady conditions
  • Asthmanext 24 hLowclean air
  • Heat stresstodayLowmild
  • SunburntodayLowweak sun
  • Frostbitenext 24 hLowmild
  • SleepingtonightIdealcool, quiet night

Outdoors

  • RunningtodayIdealfine conditions
  • HikingtodayIdealfine conditions
  • BikingtodayIdealfine conditions
  • GolftodayIdealfine conditions
  • FishingtodayIdealfine conditions
  • Boating and paddlingtodayIdealfine conditions
  • Beach and pooltodayFaircool
  • CampingtonightIdealfine conditions
  • StargazingtonightPoormostly cloudy

Travel

  • Air travelnext 24 hIdealclear skies
  • Drivingnext 24 hIdealclear roads

Home and garden

  • Lawn mowingtodayIdealfine conditions
  • GardeningtodayIdealfine conditions
  • Outdoor entertainingtodayIdealfine conditions
  • Drying laundry outsidetodayGoodlittle sun
  • Painting and outdoor projectstodayIdealfine conditions
  • FrosttonightLowmild

Pests

  • MosquitoestodayHighwarm
  • TickstodayHighwarm
  • Indoor pestsnext 24 hLowmild
  • Outdoor peststodayModeratewarm

Stargazing

Worked out from the NWS hourly forecast and the sun and moon

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

Night ofRatingDarkClear hoursClear and moonlessMoon litTransparency (est.)DewStrongest wind
FridayPoor8:58 PM to 5:12 AM0 of 8None99%5 h7 mph
SaturdayPoor8:55 PM to 5:14 AM0 of 8None100%7 h8 mph
SundayPoor8:53 PM to 5:16 AM0 of 8None98%8 h8 mph
MondayFair8:50 PM to 5:17 AM4 of 8None95%Fair8 mph
TuesdayPoor8:48 PM to 5:19 AM0 of 8None89%8 h15 mph
WednesdayPoor8:45 PM to 5:21 AM0 of 8None81%8 h11 mph
ThursdayPoor8:43 PM to 5:23 AM0 of 8None72%8 h8 mph
FridayPoor8:40 PM to 5:25 AM0 of 8None62%4 h6 mph
SaturdayPoor8:38 PM to 5:26 AM0 of 8None52%4 h8 mph

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 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 is not rated. 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.

Spraying and field work

Worked out from the NWS hourly forecast

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 12 PM to 11 PM 11 hours, every hour within the rules
  • Sat 10 AM to 8 PM 10 hours, every hour within the rules
  • Mon 1 PM to 7 PM 6 hours, every hour within the rules
  • Tue 1 AM to 3 AM 2 hours, every hour within the rules
  • Fri 1 PM to 7 PM 6 hours, every hour within the rules
Fri12 PM6 PM
Sat12 AM6 AM12 PM6 PM
Sun12 AM6 AM12 PM6 PM
Mon12 AM6 AM12 PM6 PM

Good Marginal No

Field days

DayDaytimeChance of rainRainLowest humidityStrongest windDry days in a rowHay drying
FridayDry0.00 in68%9 mph2 d
SaturdayDry0.00 in63%9 mph1 d
SundayWet0.28 in84%15 mph
MondayDry0.00 in63%4 mph1 d
TuesdayWet0.55 in95%16 mph
WednesdayShowers possible0.22 in80%16 mph
ThursdayWet0.24 in77%10 mph
FridayDry0.03 in64%9 mph1 d
SaturdayShowers possible0.04 in76%12 mph
SundayDry0.00 in74%11 mph1 d

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.

In words

Written here from the MET Norway forecast
  1. Today64° · NW 5–9 mph

    Cloudy. High near 18°C. Northwest wind 8 to 14 km/h.

  2. Tonight49° · WNW 6–9 mph

    Cloudy. Low near 10°C. Westnorthwest wind 10 to 14 km/h.

  3. Saturday61° · WSW 6–9 mph

    Partly cloudy. High near 16°C. Westsouthwest wind 10 to 15 km/h.

  4. Saturday Night51° · SSW 2–9 mph

    Partly cloudy. Low near 10°C. Southsouthwest wind 3 to 14 km/h.

  5. Sunday62° · S 9–15 mph

    Heavy rain. High near 17°C. South wind 15 to 24 km/h. Precipitation around 7 mm.

  6. Sunday Night51° · WNW 6–8 mph

    Cloudy. Low near 11°C. Westnorthwest wind 10 to 13 km/h.

  7. Monday60° · WSW 3–4 mph

    Mostly clear. High near 15°C. Westsouthwest wind 5 to 7 km/h.

  8. Monday Night51° · E 2–8 mph

    Rain. Low near 10°C. East wind 3 to 13 km/h. Precipitation around 1.0 mm.

  9. Tuesday64° · SE 11–16 mph

    Heavy rain. High near 18°C. Southeast wind 18 to 26 km/h. Precipitation around 7 mm.

  10. Tuesday Night59° · S 13–15 mph

    Heavy rain. Low near 15°C. South wind 21 to 24 km/h. Precipitation around 8 mm.

  11. Wednesday63° · SSW 13–16 mph

    Light rain showers. High near 17°C. Southsouthwest wind 21 to 25 km/h. Precipitation around 4 mm.

  12. Wednesday Night53° · SSW 8–11 mph

    Light rain showers. Low near 12°C. Southsouthwest wind 13 to 18 km/h. Precipitation around 0.9 mm.

  13. Thursday59° · SW 6–10 mph

    Rain showers. High near 15°C. Southwest wind 10 to 16 km/h. Precipitation around 6 mm.

  14. Thursday Night48° · WSW 4–7 mph

    Mostly clear. Low near 9°C. Westsouthwest wind 7 to 12 km/h.

  15. Friday57° · W 7–9 mph

    Light rain showers. High near 14°C. West wind 11 to 14 km/h. Precipitation around 0.7 mm.

  16. Friday Night49° · SW 5–6 mph

    Partly cloudy. Low near 10°C. Southwest wind 8 to 9 km/h.

  17. Saturday58° · SSW 6–12 mph

    Partly cloudy. High near 15°C. Southsouthwest wind 10 to 19 km/h. Precipitation around 0.8 mm.

  18. Saturday Night53° · S 7 mph

    Cloudy. Low near 11°C. South wind around 12 km/h.

  19. Sunday61° · SSW 5–11 mph

    Partly cloudy. High near 16°C. Southsouthwest wind 8 to 17 km/h.

Climate

Climate of Blackwood: normals, records and every month

Everything else on the grid

MET Norway · 12 elements

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.

ElementFriSatSunMonTueWedThuFriSatSun
Pressure min30.08 inHg30.14 inHg29.79 inHg29.93 inHg29.71 inHg29.71 inHg29.86 inHg29.98 inHg30.21 inHg30.18 inHg

Sun and moon

DayCivil twilightSunriseSunsetCivil twilightDaylightMoon
Fri6:30 AM7:04 AM7:04 PM7:38 PM12 h 0 min Waxing gibbous · 98% lit
Sat6:32 AM7:05 AM7:02 PM7:35 PM11 h 57 min Full moon · 100% lit
Sun6:34 AM7:07 AM7:00 PM7:33 PM11 h 53 min Full moon · 99% lit
Mon6:35 AM7:09 AM6:57 PM7:31 PM11 h 48 min Waning gibbous · 96% lit
Tue6:37 AM7:10 AM6:55 PM7:28 PM11 h 45 min Waning gibbous · 91% lit
Wed6:38 AM7:12 AM6:53 PM7:26 PM11 h 41 min Waning gibbous · 84% lit
Thu6:40 AM7:13 AM6:51 PM7:24 PM11 h 38 min Waning gibbous · 76% lit
Fri6:42 AM7:15 AM6:48 PM7:22 PM11 h 33 min Waning gibbous · 66% lit
Sat6:43 AM7:17 AM6:46 PM7:19 PM11 h 29 min Last quarter · 56% lit
Sun6:45 AM7:18 AM6:44 PM7:17 PM11 h 26 min Last quarter · 45% lit

Forecast from MET Norway’s Locationforecast (the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, CC BY 4.0), built on the ECMWF model and refined by MET, updated through the day; the written periods are composed here from its hourly data. Global model lines from NOAA’s GFS and ECMWF’s open data where they are ingested. Sun and moon computed here. Place names from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).

What is here

Seven days
The high, the low, the chance and amount of rain and snow, the wind and the forecaster’s words for each day and night, from the National Weather Service grid for the exact cell your town sits in.
Hour by hour
Temperature, what it feels like, dew point, humidity, chance and amount of precipitation, wind and gusts, sky cover, the chance of thunder, pressure, visibility and ceiling, as a chart and as a table, with nights shaded.
Everything else on the grid
The office edits about sixty fields for every cell. The ones the mainstream forecast pages leave out are here as a daily table: HeatRisk, wet bulb globe temperature, lightning activity, mixing height, transport wind, the fire weather indices, and at the coast the waves and swell.
The discussion
The Area Forecast Discussion the forecaster wrote to explain the forecast, in their own words, with the specialist annexes folded away. Also the office’s hazardous weather outlook.
Beyond the week
The Storm Prediction Center’s severe weather category for each of the next eight days, the Weather Prediction Center’s rainfall forecast to day seven and its winter storm severity, and the Climate Prediction Center’s odds for days six to fourteen, all read at your coordinate.
Against the record
Each forecast day beside the same date at the nearest long-record station: the thirty-year normal and the record high and low with their years, so a forecast high that would break a record says so.
The next 90 days
The forecast as far as the grid, the National Blend and the global models reach, and the calendar after that: the normal and the record for every date, with the Climate Prediction Center’s lean for the weeks, the month and the season drawn over them. No made-up highs for a date three months out.

Common questions

Where does this forecast come from?

From the National Weather Service forecast grid published at api.weather.gov, the same grid the local forecast office edits through the day and the source of every forecast on weather.gov. The written periods, the hourly digest and the forecaster’s discussion are the NWS’s own products, shown as issued. Nothing here is a blend a website made.

How far ahead does it go?

The grid runs seven days ahead, hour by hour for the first days and in three to six hour steps after that. The National Blend of Models carries the days to eleven and the global models to sixteen. Beyond that the page carries the national centers’ outlooks, severe weather to day eight, rainfall to day seven, and the Climate Prediction Center’s odds for the coming weeks, month and season, over a ninety-day calendar of the normal and the record for each date. No forecast has skill day by day past about two weeks, and this page does not print one.

Why is this different from the app on my phone?

Most forecast apps show a blend of models chosen by the company that makes the app. This page shows the forecast the local National Weather Service office issues, edited by the forecasters who will also issue the warnings, and it shows all of it rather than the six numbers that fit on a phone. The discussion explains the reasoning, which no app carries.

What is a place’s address here?

Every town has its own page, such as /forecast/us/oklahoma/oklahoma-city/, and every day at a town has one too. A ZIP code typed into the search goes to the town it belongs to. Any coordinate at all can be looked up, and the page names the nearest town.

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