Zhangaqala, Kazakhstan

1. Thu11 PM55°11 mph
2. Fri12 AM55°11 mph
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46. 8 PM38°10 mph
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1. TodayOct 155°55°Cloudy—wind 11 mph
2. FriOct 256°50°Partly cloudy—wind 14 mph
3. SatOct 349°37°Cloudy—0.11 inwind 17 mph
4. SunOct 452°40°Cloudy—0.03 inwind 20 mph
5. MonOct 556°40°Clear—wind 9 mph
6. TueOct 661°47°Partly cloudy—wind 11 mph
7. WedOct 767°51°Mostly clear—wind 16 mph
8. ThuOct 869°53°Cloudy—wind 9 mph
9. FriOct 970°50°Cloudy—wind 6 mph
10. SatOct 1073°54°Cloudy—wind 9 mph
11. SunOct 11~65°51°Model mean0.11 in
12. MonOct 12~66°53°Model mean
13. TueOct 13~67°51°Model mean
14. WedOct 14~68°55°Model mean
15. ThuOct 15~69°53°Model mean
16. FriOct 16~62°50°Model mean0.04 in

• Feels like52°
• WindN 11 mph
• Humidity74%
• Dew point47°
• Pressure30.10 inHg
• UV index0 · Lowclear-sky peak 3 Friday
• Sunrise and sunsetSunrise · Sunset · set
• Moonrise9:16 PMMoonset 1:47 PM
• Moon phaseWaning gibbous77% 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

• Sun 11 PM to Tue 5 PM 42 hours, every hour within the rules
• Tue 11 PM to Wed 11 AM 12 hours, every hour within the rules
• Wed 11 PM to Fri 11 PM 48 hours, every hour within the rules
• Sat 11 AM to 5 PM 6 hours, every hour within the rules
• Sat 11 PM to Sun 7 AM 8 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 good.

Periods in bold fall within an hour of sunrise or sunset. The weather’s side is the fishing index · Solunar tables for Zhangaqala, 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. Tonight50° · N 10–13 mph

   Cloudy. Low near 10°C. North wind 16 to 21 km/h.

2. Friday56° · NNW 11–14 mph

   Partly cloudy. High near 14°C. Northnorthwest wind 18 to 22 km/h.

3. Friday Night42° · NNW 10–14 mph

   Cloudy. Low near 6°C. Northnorthwest wind 16 to 23 km/h.

4. Saturday49° · NW 9–15 mph

   Cloudy. High near 10°C. Northwest wind 15 to 24 km/h.

5. Saturday Night37° · W 6–17 mph

   Heavy rain showers. Low near 3°C. West wind 10 to 28 km/h. Precipitation around 3 mm.

6. Sunday52° · WNW 14–20 mph

   Cloudy. High near 11°C. Westnorthwest wind 22 to 32 km/h.

7. Sunday Night40° · WNW 6–8 mph

   Clear. Low near 4°C. Westnorthwest wind 9 to 13 km/h.

8. Monday56° · WNW 9–9 mph

   Clear. High near 13°C. Westnorthwest wind 14 to 15 km/h.

9. Monday Night40° · WSW 5–6 mph

   Partly cloudy. Low near 4°C. Westsouthwest wind 8 to 9 km/h.

10. Tuesday61° · SW 8–11 mph

    Partly cloudy. High near 16°C. Southwest wind 13 to 18 km/h.

11. Tuesday Night47° · SW 9 mph

    Clear. Low near 8°C. Southwest wind around 15 km/h.

12. Wednesday67° · SW 12–16 mph

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

13. Wednesday Night51° · WSW 7–9 mph

    Mostly clear. Low near 11°C. Westsouthwest wind 12 to 14 km/h.

14. Thursday69° · WSW 7–9 mph

    Cloudy. High near 20°C. Westsouthwest wind 12 to 15 km/h.

15. Thursday Night53° · SSW 5–6 mph

    Cloudy. Low near 12°C. Southsouthwest wind 8 to 9 km/h.

16. Friday70° · SW 5–6 mph

    Cloudy. High near 21°C. Southwest wind 8 to 9 km/h.

17. Friday Night50° · S 2–5 mph

    Clear. Low near 10°C. South wind 4 to 8 km/h.

18. Saturday73° · SSE 6–8 mph

    Cloudy. High near 23°C. Southsoutheast wind 9 to 13 km/h.

19. Saturday Night54° · SSE 6–9 mph

    Cloudy. Low near 12°C. Southsoutheast wind 9 to 14 km/h.

Climate of Zhangaqala: 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.