Waikuku Beach, New Zealand

1. Fri1 AM51°11 mph
2. 2 AM51°12 mph
3. 3 AM51°11 mph
4. 4 AM49°9 mph
5. 5 AM48°8 mph
6. 6 AM48°7 mph
7. 7 AM48°9 mph
8. 8 AM50°12 mph
9. 9 AM52°14 mph
10. 10 AM53°11 mph
11. 11 AM55°10 mph
12. 12 PM58°13 mph
13. 1 PM61°20 mph
14. 2 PM62°18 mph
15. 3 PM63°20 mph
16. 4 PM62°15 mph
17. 5 PM61°12 mph
18. 6 PM60°11 mph
19. 7 PM59°10 mph
20. 8 PM58°11 mph
21. 9 PM57°9 mph
22. 10 PM56°8 mph
23. 11 PM55°17 mph
24. Sat12 AM53°21 mph
25. 1 AM53°20 mph
26. 2 AM52°17 mph
27. 3 AM52°13 mph
28. 4 AM51°12 mph
29. 5 AM51°9 mph
30. 6 AM50°7 mph
31. 7 AM50°6 mph
32. 8 AM49°6 mph
33. 9 AM49°7 mph
34. 10 AM50°8 mph
35. 11 AM50°9 mph
36. 12 PM50°9 mph
37. 1 PM51°9 mph
38. 2 PM51°10 mph
39. 3 PM52°9 mph
40. 4 PM53°11 mph
41. 5 PM53°12 mph
42. 6 PM52°12 mph
43. 7 PM51°10 mph
44. 8 PM50°10 mph
45. 9 PM50°9 mph
46. 10 PM49°7 mph
47. 11 PM49°6 mph
48. Sun12 AM48°5 mph

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1. TodayOct 263°48°Partly cloudy—0.02 inwind 20 mph
2. SatOct 353°42°Rain—0.30 inwind 21 mph
3. SunOct 450°47°Fog—wind 16 mph
4. MonOct 551°47°Partly cloudy—wind 13 mph
5. TueOct 660°53°Partly cloudy—wind 13 mph
6. WedOct 758°52°Mostly clear—wind 9 mph
7. ThuOct 859°54°Cloudy—wind 7 mph
8. FriOct 961°56°Cloudy—wind 8 mph
9. SatOct 1064°63°Partly cloudy—wind 14 mph
10. SunOct 1167°60°Partly cloudy—0.01 inwind 16 mph
11. MonOct 12~65°56°Model mean
12. TueOct 13~64°59°Model mean0.05 in
13. WedOct 14~56°53°Model mean0.37 in
14. ThuOct 15~55°47°Model mean0.03 in
15. FriOct 16~54°50°Model mean
16. SatOct 17~55°49°Model mean

• Feels like47°
• WindNNW 11 mph
• Humidity84%
• Dew point47°
• Pressure30.19 inHg
• UV index0 · Lowclear-sky peak 6 today
• Sunrise and sunsetSunrise · Sunset · not yet up
• Moonrise1:20 AMMoonset 9:45 AM
• Moon phaseWaning gibbous71% 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

• Sat 12 PM to 4 PM 4 hours, every hour within the rules
• Sat 8 PM to Sun 1 AM 5 hours, every hour within the rules
• Sun 7 PM to Mon 1 AM 6 hours, every hour within the rules
• Tue 1 PM to Thu 1 AM 36 hours, every hour within the rules
• Thu 1 PM to Fri 1 AM 12 hours, every hour within the rules
• Fri 1 PM to 7 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 Thursday, rated good.

Periods in bold fall within an hour of sunrise or sunset. The weather’s side is the fishing index · Solunar tables for Waikuku Beach, 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. Tonight48° · NW 8–12 mph

   Partly cloudy. Low near 9°C. Northwest wind 13 to 19 km/h.

2. Friday63° · WSW 7–20 mph

   Partly cloudy. High near 17°C. Westsouthwest wind 12 to 32 km/h.

3. Friday Night51° · ESE 8–21 mph

   Heavy rain. Low near 10°C. Eastsoutheast wind 13 to 33 km/h. Precipitation around 6 mm.

4. Saturday53° · SSW 6–12 mph

   Rain. High near 12°C. Southsouthwest wind 10 to 20 km/h. Precipitation around 2 mm.

5. Saturday Night42° · WSW 3–12 mph

   Fog. Low near 5°C. Westsouthwest wind 5 to 19 km/h.

6. Sunday50° · NE 6–16 mph

   Fog. High near 10°C. Northeast wind 10 to 26 km/h.

7. Sunday Night47° · NE 1–9 mph

   Clear. Low near 9°C. Northeast wind 1 to 14 km/h.

8. Monday51° · NNE 3–12 mph

   Partly cloudy. High near 11°C. Northnortheast wind 5 to 20 km/h.

9. Monday Night47° · N 6–13 mph

   Cloudy. Low near 8°C. North wind 9 to 21 km/h.

10. Tuesday60° · ENE 1–5 mph

    Partly cloudy. High near 16°C. Eastnortheast wind 2 to 8 km/h.

11. Tuesday Night53° · NNW 7–8 mph

    Clear. Low near 11°C. Northnorthwest wind 11 to 13 km/h.

12. Wednesday58° · ENE 7–9 mph

    Mostly clear. High near 14°C. Eastnortheast wind 12 to 15 km/h.

13. Wednesday Night52° · NNE 1–5 mph

    Mostly clear. Low near 11°C. Northnortheast wind 2 to 8 km/h.

14. Thursday59° · S 2–5 mph

    Cloudy. High near 15°C. South wind 4 to 8 km/h.

15. Thursday Night54° · N 4–7 mph

    Partly cloudy. Low near 12°C. North wind 6 to 11 km/h.

16. Friday61° · N 2–6 mph

    Cloudy. High near 16°C. North wind 4 to 9 km/h.

17. Friday Night56° · ENE 3–8 mph

    Mostly clear. Low near 13°C. Eastnortheast wind 5 to 13 km/h.

18. Saturday64° · ENE 1–14 mph

    Partly cloudy. High near 18°C. Eastnortheast wind 2 to 23 km/h.

19. Saturday Night63° · N 14 mph

    Partly cloudy. Low near 17°C. North wind around 22 km/h.

20. Sunday67° · N 14–16 mph

    Partly cloudy. High near 19°C. North wind 22 to 25 km/h.

Climate of Waikuku Beach: 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.