Gourma Rharous, Mali

1. Sun1 AM90°12 mph
2. 2 AM89°11 mph
3. 3 AM87°11 mph
4. 4 AM86°12 mph
5. 5 AM85°11 mph
6. 6 AM84°11 mph
7. 7 AM85°10 mph
8. 8 AM89°8 mph
9. 9 AM94°10 mph
10. 10 AM98°10 mph
11. 11 AM101°9 mph
12. 12 PM102°6 mph
13. 1 PM104°6 mph
14. 2 PM105°8 mph
15. 3 PM105°9 mph
16. 4 PM104°9 mph
17. 5 PM103°10 mph
18. 6 PM101°9 mph
19. 7 PM99°9 mph
20. 8 PM96°9 mph
21. 9 PM94°9 mph
22. 10 PM93°9 mph
23. 11 PM91°10 mph
24. Mon12 AM90°10 mph
25. 1 AM88°11 mph
26. 2 AM87°11 mph
27. 3 AM86°10 mph
28. 4 AM85°10 mph
29. 5 AM84°11 mph
30. 6 AM83°11 mph
31. 7 AM85°8 mph
32. 8 AM88°13 mph
33. 9 AM93°11 mph
34. 10 AM97°5 mph
35. 11 AM100°5 mph
36. 12 PM102°3 mph
37. 1 PM103°2 mph
38. 2 PM103°4 mph
39. 3 PM104°6 mph
40. 4 PM103°8 mph
41. 5 PM102°9 mph
42. 6 PM100°9 mph
43. 7 PM98°9 mph
44. 8 PM96°8 mph
45. 9 PM94°6 mph
46. 10 PM91°6 mph
47. 11 PM90°5 mph
48. Tue12 AM88°11 mph

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1. TodaySep 27105°85°Partly cloudy—wind 12 mph
2. MonSep 28104°83°Partly cloudy—wind 13 mph
3. TueSep 29104°84°Heavy rain—0.08 inwind 22 mph
4. WedSep 3094°78°Heavy rain showers—0.39 inwind 10 mph
5. ThuOct 191°77°Rain showers—0.17 inwind 5 mph
6. FriOct 286°75°Rain showers—0.09 inwind 13 mph
7. SatOct 389°80°Partly cloudy—wind 7 mph
8. SunOct 493°84°Cloudy—wind 9 mph
9. MonOct 5101°85°Mostly clear—wind 15 mph
10. TueOct 6101°78°Partly cloudy—wind 9 mph
11. WedOct 7~96°82°Model mean0.06 in
12. ThuOct 8~97°82°Model mean0.03 in
13. FriOct 9~99°83°Model mean
14. SatOct 10~99°83°Model mean
15. SunOct 11~100°82°Model mean
16. MonOct 12~102°90°Model mean

• Feels like90°
• WindNNW 12 mph
• Humidity25%
• Dew point49°
• Pressure29.81 inHg
• UV index0 · Lowclear-sky peak 11 today
• Sunrise and sunsetSunrise · Sunset · not yet up
• Moonrise6:30 PMMoonset 6:29 AM
• Moon phaseFull moon99% 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 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

• Tue 2 AM to 5 AM 3 hours, every hour within the rules
• Wed 6 AM to 8 AM 2 hours, every hour within the rules
• Wed 6 PM to Thu 12 AM 6 hours, every hour within the rules
• Thu 6 PM to Fri 12 AM 6 hours, every hour within the rules
• Sat 12 PM to 6 PM 6 hours, every hour within the rules
• Sun 12 AM to Mon 12 PM 36 hours, some with delta T between 8 and 10 °C
• Tue 6 AM to 12 PM 6 hours, some with delta T between 8 and 10 °C

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 Sunday, rated best.

Periods in bold fall within an hour of sunrise or sunset. The weather’s side is the fishing index · Solunar tables for Gourma Rharous, 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. Tonight85° · NNW 11–12 mph

   Partly cloudy. Low near 30°C. Northnorthwest wind 18 to 19 km/h.

2. Sunday105° · N 6–11 mph

   Partly cloudy. High near 40°C. North wind 10 to 17 km/h.

3. Sunday Night84° · NNW 9–11 mph

   Partly cloudy. Low near 29°C. Northnorthwest wind 14 to 18 km/h.

4. Monday104° · N 2–13 mph

   Partly cloudy. High near 40°C. North wind 3 to 21 km/h.

5. Monday Night83° · WSW 6–11 mph

   Partly cloudy. Low near 28°C. Westsouthwest wind 9 to 18 km/h.

6. Tuesday104° · SSE 10–22 mph

   Heavy rain. High near 40°C. Southsoutheast wind 16 to 35 km/h. Precipitation around 2 mm.

7. Tuesday Night84° · SSE 10 mph

   Partly cloudy. Low near 29°C. Southsoutheast wind around 16 km/h.

8. Wednesday94° · S 6–6 mph

   Heavy rain showers. High near 35°C. South wind 9 to 10 km/h. Precipitation around 9 mm.

9. Wednesday Night78° · SE 5–9 mph

   Light rain showers. Low near 25°C. Southeast wind 8 to 14 km/h. Precipitation around 0.7 mm.

10. Thursday91° · SSE 4–5 mph

    Rain showers. High near 33°C. Southsoutheast wind 6 to 8 km/h. Precipitation around 4 mm.

11. Thursday Night77° · ESE 4–5 mph

    Partly cloudy. Low near 25°C. Eastsoutheast wind 6 to 8 km/h.

12. Friday86° · ESE 1–13 mph

    Rain showers. High near 30°C. Eastsoutheast wind 2 to 21 km/h. Precipitation around 2 mm.

13. Friday Night75° · SE 6–6 mph

    Partly cloudy. Low near 24°C. Southeast wind 9 to 10 km/h.

14. Saturday89° · ESE 4–7 mph

    Partly cloudy. High near 31°C. Eastsoutheast wind 6 to 11 km/h.

15. Saturday Night80° · WSW 2–5 mph

    Cloudy. Low near 27°C. Westsouthwest wind 4 to 8 km/h.

16. Sunday93° · NNE 6–9 mph

    Cloudy. High near 34°C. Northnortheast wind 9 to 14 km/h.

17. Sunday Night84° · E 4–9 mph

    Cloudy. Low near 29°C. East wind 6 to 14 km/h.

18. Monday101° · ENE 6–15 mph

    Mostly clear. High near 38°C. Eastnortheast wind 9 to 24 km/h.

19. Monday Night85° · SW 4–6 mph

    Partly cloudy. Low near 29°C. Southwest wind 6 to 10 km/h.

20. Tuesday101° · ENE 6–9 mph

    Partly cloudy. High near 39°C. Eastnortheast wind 10 to 14 km/h.

Climate of Gourma Rharous: 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.