Wadestown, New Zealand

1. Mon2 PM56°20 mph
2. 3 PM56°25 mph
3. 4 PM56°24 mph
4. 5 PM55°23 mph
5. 6 PM55°21 mph
6. 7 PM54°21 mph
7. 8 PM53°20 mph
8. 9 PM53°19 mph
9. 10 PM52°17 mph
10. 11 PM51°16 mph
11. Tue12 AM50°15 mph
12. 1 AM49°14 mph
13. 2 AM48°13 mph
14. 3 AM48°13 mph
15. 4 AM47°11 mph
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18. 7 AM48°11 mph
19. 8 AM49°9 mph
20. 9 AM52°9 mph
21. 10 AM53°8 mph
22. 11 AM55°8 mph
23. 12 PM56°8 mph
24. 1 PM57°8 mph
25. 2 PM58°7 mph
26. 3 PM58°7 mph
27. 4 PM58°5 mph
28. 5 PM58°4 mph
29. 6 PM57°4 mph
30. 7 PM56°4 mph
31. 8 PM53°6 mph
32. 9 PM51°7 mph
33. 10 PM50°8 mph
34. 11 PM50°9 mph
35. Wed12 AM49°9 mph
36. 1 AM49°9 mph
37. 2 AM48°8 mph
38. 3 AM48°7 mph
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40. 5 AM47°8 mph
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43. 8 AM49°8 mph
44. 9 AM53°9 mph
45. 10 AM54°10 mph
46. 11 AM55°10 mph
47. 12 PM55°10 mph
48. 1 PM55°10 mph

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1. TodaySep 2856°47°Partly cloudy—wind 25 mph
2. TueSep 2958°47°Clear—wind 15 mph
3. WedSep 3057°52°Rain—0.07 inwind 21 mph
4. ThuOct 155°52°Partly cloudy—wind 30 mph
5. FriOct 256°52°Cloudy—wind 24 mph
6. SatOct 353°46°Light rain—0.04 inwind 17 mph
7. SunOct 455°48°Cloudy—wind 13 mph
8. MonOct 555°54°Cloudy—wind 6 mph
9. TueOct 658°55°Partly cloudy—0.04 inwind 20 mph
10. WedOct 758°56°Partly cloudy—0.04 inwind 21 mph
11. ThuOct 8~57°54°Model mean0.01 in
12. FriOct 9~58°53°Model mean
13. SatOct 10~58°53°Model mean0.02 in
14. SunOct 11~58°53°Model mean
15. MonOct 12~59°54°Model mean0.14 in
16. TueOct 13~51°50°Model mean0.11 in

• Feels like51°
• WindNW 20 mph
• Humidity63%
• Dew point44°
• Pressure29.81 inHg
• UV index4 · Moderateclear-sky peak 4 today
• Sunrise and sunsetSunrise · Sunset
• Moonrise9:15 PMMoonset 7:17 AM
• Moon phaseWaning gibbous98% 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 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

• Tue 9 AM to 9 PM 12 hours, every hour within the rules
• Sun 1 PM to Mon 1 AM 12 hours, every hour within the rules
• Mon 1 PM to Tue 1 AM 12 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 Monday, rated best.

Periods in bold fall within an hour of sunrise or sunset. The weather’s side is the fishing index · Solunar tables for Wadestown, 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. This Afternoon56° · NW 20–25 mph

   Partly cloudy. High near 14°C. Northwest wind 32 to 40 km/h.

2. Tonight47° · NW 11–22 mph

   Cloudy. Low near 8°C. Northwest wind 17 to 35 km/h.

3. Tuesday58° · W 4–11 mph

   Clear. High near 14°C. West wind 6 to 17 km/h.

4. Tuesday Night47° · ENE 4–9 mph

   Clear. Low near 9°C. Eastnortheast wind 6 to 15 km/h.

5. Wednesday57° · NNE 7–12 mph

   Rain. High near 14°C. Northnortheast wind 12 to 19 km/h. Precipitation around 1.9 mm.

6. Wednesday Night52° · N 11–30 mph

   Partly cloudy. Low near 11°C. North wind 18 to 48 km/h.

7. Thursday55° · N 25–30 mph

   Partly cloudy. High near 13°C. North wind 41 to 48 km/h.

8. Thursday Night52° · N 21–22 mph

   Partly cloudy. Low near 11°C. North wind 33 to 35 km/h.

9. Friday56° · N 21–24 mph

   Cloudy. High near 14°C. North wind 34 to 39 km/h.

10. Friday Night52° · N 11–16 mph

    Partly cloudy. Low near 11°C. North wind 17 to 26 km/h.

11. Saturday53° · SSE 16–17 mph

    Light rain. High near 12°C. Southsoutheast wind 26 to 27 km/h. Precipitation around 0.7 mm.

12. Saturday Night46° · SE 5–13 mph

    Clear. Low near 8°C. Southeast wind 8 to 21 km/h.

13. Sunday55° · N 4–6 mph

    Cloudy. High near 13°C. North wind 6 to 9 km/h.

14. Sunday Night48° · SE 4 mph

    Partly cloudy. Low near 9°C. Southeast wind around 6 km/h.

15. Monday55° · N 3–5 mph

    Cloudy. High near 13°C. North wind 5 to 8 km/h.

16. Monday Night54° · N 6–11 mph

    Cloudy. Low near 12°C. North wind 10 to 17 km/h.

17. Tuesday58° · NNW 12–19 mph

    Partly cloudy. High near 14°C. Northnorthwest wind 19 to 30 km/h. Precipitation around 0.7 mm.

18. Tuesday Night55° · NNW 17–21 mph

    Mostly clear. Low near 13°C. Northnorthwest wind 28 to 33 km/h.

19. Wednesday58° · NNW 17–22 mph

    Partly cloudy. High near 15°C. Northnorthwest wind 28 to 35 km/h. Precipitation around 0.7 mm.

20. Wednesday Night56° · NNW 17–19 mph

    Partly cloudy. Low near 13°C. Northnorthwest wind 27 to 30 km/h.

Climate of Wadestown: 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.