Paeroa, New Zealand

1. Wed4 AM45°6 mph
2. 5 AM44°6 mph
3. 6 AM44°5 mph
4. 7 AM43°5 mph
5. 8 AM47°5 mph
6. 9 AM51°4 mph
7. 10 AM55°6 mph
8. 11 AM58°7 mph
9. 12 PM60°6 mph
10. 1 PM60°6 mph
11. 2 PM60°7 mph
12. 3 PM60°7 mph
13. 4 PM60°7 mph
14. 5 PM58°6 mph
15. 6 PM58°6 mph
16. 7 PM57°5 mph
17. 8 PM55°4 mph
18. 9 PM53°4 mph
19. 10 PM52°4 mph
20. 11 PM51°4 mph
21. Thu12 AM49°4 mph
22. 1 AM48°4 mph
23. 2 AM47°4 mph
24. 3 AM46°4 mph
25. 4 AM45°4 mph
26. 5 AM45°4 mph
27. 6 AM45°4 mph
28. 7 AM46°4 mph
29. 8 AM48°4 mph
30. 9 AM50°4 mph
31. 10 AM54°6 mph
32. 11 AM56°8 mph
33. 12 PM58°8 mph
34. 1 PM58°9 mph
35. 2 PM58°9 mph
36. 3 PM60°10 mph
37. 4 PM60°11 mph
38. 5 PM60°11 mph
39. 6 PM58°11 mph
40. 7 PM56°9 mph
41. 8 PM52°9 mph
42. 9 PM50°9 mph
43. 10 PM49°8 mph
44. 11 PM49°8 mph
45. Fri12 AM48°8 mph
46. 1 AM48°8 mph
47. 2 AM47°8 mph
48. 3 AM47°8 mph

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1. TodaySep 3060°44°Fog—wind 7 mph
2. ThuOct 160°47°Light rain—0.04 inwind 11 mph
3. FriOct 260°49°Light rain showers—wind 14 mph
4. SatOct 361°55°Cloudy—0.01 inwind 14 mph
5. SunOct 459°50°Partly cloudy—wind 9 mph
6. MonOct 560°54°Cloudy—wind 11 mph
7. TueOct 660°56°Cloudy—0.03 inwind 12 mph
8. WedOct 762°61°Heavy rain—0.50 inwind 13 mph
9. ThuOct 870°61°Cloudy—0.07 inwind 12 mph
10. FriOct 963°57°Cloudy—0.04 inwind 13 mph

• Feels like40°
• WindENE 6 mph
• Humidity99%
• Dew point45°
• Pressure30.25 inHg
• UV index0 · Lowclear-sky peak 6 today
• Sunrise and sunsetSunrise · Sunset · not yet up
• Moonrise11:30 PMMoonset 8:23 AM
• Moon phaseWaning gibbous88% lit

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 9:00 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

• Wed 11 AM to 7 PM 8 hours, every hour within the rules
• Sat 7 PM to Sun 1 AM 6 hours, every hour within the rules
• Sun 1 PM to Mon 1 AM 12 hours, every hour within the rules
• Mon 7 AM to 1 PM 6 hours, every hour within the rules
• Mon 7 PM to Tue 1 AM 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 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 Paeroa, 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. Tonight44° · NE 6 mph

   Fog. Low near 7°C. Northeast wind around 9 km/h.

2. Wednesday60° · WSW 4–7 mph

   Fog. High near 16°C. Westsouthwest wind 7 to 11 km/h.

3. Wednesday Night45° · NW 4–6 mph

   Fog. Low near 7°C. Northwest wind 6 to 10 km/h.

4. Thursday60° · W 4–11 mph

   Light rain. High near 16°C. West wind 7 to 18 km/h. Precipitation around 1.0 mm.

5. Thursday Night47° · WSW 7–11 mph

   Partly cloudy. Low near 8°C. Westsouthwest wind 12 to 17 km/h.

6. Friday60° · WSW 9–14 mph

   Light rain showers. High near 16°C. Westsouthwest wind 14 to 23 km/h.

7. Friday Night49° · W 6–14 mph

   Cloudy. Low near 9°C. West wind 9 to 23 km/h.

8. Saturday61° · SW 7–11 mph

   Cloudy. High near 16°C. Southwest wind 12 to 17 km/h.

9. Saturday Night55° · E 6–6 mph

   Cloudy. Low near 13°C. East wind 9 to 10 km/h.

10. Sunday59° · E 8–9 mph

    Partly cloudy. High near 15°C. East wind 13 to 14 km/h.

11. Sunday Night50° · ENE 4–6 mph

    Cloudy. Low near 10°C. Eastnortheast wind 6 to 9 km/h.

12. Monday60° · ENE 6–11 mph

    Cloudy. High near 15°C. Eastnortheast wind 10 to 18 km/h.

13. Monday Night54° · ENE 6–7 mph

    Cloudy. Low near 12°C. Eastnortheast wind 10 to 12 km/h. Precipitation around 0.7 mm.

14. Tuesday60° · ENE 7–12 mph

    Cloudy. High near 15°C. Eastnortheast wind 12 to 19 km/h.

15. Tuesday Night56° · NE 9–9 mph

    Light rain showers. Low near 14°C. Northeast wind 14 to 15 km/h. Precipitation around 0.6 mm.

16. Wednesday62° · NE 10–14 mph

    Heavy rain. High near 17°C. Northeast wind 16 to 22 km/h. Precipitation around 12 mm.

17. Wednesday Night61° · NE 5–12 mph

    Light rain. Low near 16°C. Northeast wind 8 to 19 km/h. Precipitation around 0.8 mm.

18. Thursday70° · ENE 3–11 mph

    Cloudy. High near 21°C. Eastnortheast wind 5 to 17 km/h. Precipitation around 0.6 mm.

19. Thursday Night61° · E 8–9 mph

    Rain showers. Low near 16°C. East wind 13 to 15 km/h. Precipitation around 1.9 mm.

20. Friday63° · E 12–13 mph

    Cloudy. High near 17°C. East wind 20 to 21 km/h.

Climate of Paeroa: 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.