Nizhniy Baskunchak, Russia

1. Fri8 PM51°12 mph
2. 9 PM49°11 mph
3. 10 PM49°9 mph
4. 11 PM49°11 mph
5. Sat12 AM47°10 mph
6. 1 AM46°6 mph
7. 2 AM44°6 mph
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9. 4 AM45°7 mph
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24. 7 PM48°12 mph
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1. TodayOct 251°44°Partly cloudy—wind 12 mph
2. SatOct 353°42°Cloudy—wind 15 mph
3. SunOct 454°38°Mostly clear—wind 19 mph
4. MonOct 560°52°Partly cloudy—wind 11 mph
5. TueOct 666°56°Partly cloudy—wind 10 mph
6. WedOct 771°53°Mostly clear—wind 14 mph
7. ThuOct 870°58°Cloudy—wind 9 mph
8. FriOct 972°53°Partly cloudy—wind 6 mph
9. SatOct 1072°57°Cloudy—wind 12 mph
10. SunOct 1168°50°Partly cloudy—0.11 inwind 13 mph
11. MonOct 12~65°53°Model mean0.02 in
12. TueOct 13~69°51°Model mean
13. WedOct 14~71°51°Model mean
14. ThuOct 15~63°51°Model mean0.01 in
15. FriOct 16~64°48°Model mean
16. SatOct 17~60°45°Model mean

• Feels like46°
• WindN 12 mph
• Humidity47%
• Dew point31°
• Pressure30.22 inHg
• UV index0 · Lowclear-sky peak 3 Saturday
• Sunrise and sunsetSunrise · Sunset · set
• Moonrise9:36 PMMoonset 2:06 PM
• Moon phaseWaning gibbous67% 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

• Sat 12 AM to 1 PM 13 hours, every hour within the rules
• Sat 9 PM to 11 PM 2 hours, every hour within the rules
• Sun 9 PM to Mon 4 AM 7 hours, every hour within the rules
• Mon 9 AM to 4 PM 7 hours, every hour within the rules
• Mon 10 PM to Tue 4 PM 18 hours, every hour within the rules
• Tue 10 PM to Wed 10 AM 12 hours, every hour within the rules
• Wed 10 PM to Fri 10 AM 36 hours, every hour within the rules
• Fri 4 PM to Sat 4 PM 24 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 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 Nizhniy Baskunchak, 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° · N 6–12 mph

   Partly cloudy. Low near 7°C. North wind 9 to 19 km/h.

2. Saturday53° · NW 5–15 mph

   Cloudy. High near 12°C. Northwest wind 8 to 24 km/h.

3. Saturday Night42° · WNW 9–15 mph

   Cloudy. Low near 5°C. Westnorthwest wind 15 to 24 km/h.

4. Sunday54° · WNW 14–19 mph

   Mostly clear. High near 12°C. Westnorthwest wind 22 to 31 km/h.

5. Sunday Night38° · WNW 6–14 mph

   Partly cloudy. Low near 3°C. Westnorthwest wind 10 to 23 km/h.

6. Monday60° · W 6–11 mph

   Partly cloudy. High near 16°C. West wind 9 to 17 km/h.

7. Monday Night52° · WSW 9–10 mph

   Partly cloudy. Low near 11°C. Westsouthwest wind 14 to 16 km/h.

8. Tuesday66° · WSW 8–10 mph

   Partly cloudy. High near 19°C. Westsouthwest wind 13 to 16 km/h.

9. Tuesday Night56° · SW 7–9 mph

   Cloudy. Low near 13°C. Southwest wind 12 to 15 km/h.

10. Wednesday71° · WSW 11–14 mph

    Mostly clear. High near 22°C. Westsouthwest wind 17 to 22 km/h.

11. Wednesday Night53° · WSW 8–9 mph

    Clear. Low near 12°C. Westsouthwest wind 13 to 14 km/h.

12. Thursday70° · W 6–6 mph

    Cloudy. High near 21°C. West wind 9 to 10 km/h.

13. Thursday Night58° · ESE 3–4 mph

    Partly cloudy. Low near 14°C. Eastsoutheast wind 5 to 6 km/h.

14. Friday72° · SE 2–6 mph

    Partly cloudy. High near 22°C. Southeast wind 3 to 10 km/h.

15. Friday Night53° · SSE 5–6 mph

    Mostly clear. Low near 11°C. Southsoutheast wind 8 to 9 km/h.

16. Saturday72° · SE 8–11 mph

    Cloudy. High near 22°C. Southeast wind 13 to 18 km/h.

17. Saturday Night57° · SE 9–12 mph

    Rain. Low near 14°C. Southeast wind 15 to 19 km/h. Precipitation around 2 mm.

18. Sunday68° · SSW 6–13 mph

    Partly cloudy. High near 20°C. Southsouthwest wind 9 to 21 km/h. Precipitation around 0.7 mm.

19. Sunday Night50° · W 6–8 mph

    Clear. Low near 10°C. West wind 10 to 13 km/h.

Climate of Nizhniy Baskunchak: 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.