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Version 28

Forecasts via Open-Meteo: a blend of five models (Canada's GEM, which uses the 2.5 km HRDPS for the first two days, ECMWF, the US GFS, Germany's ICON and the UK Met Office), taking the middle value each hour; or WeatherNext 2 by Google DeepMind. Measured wind and warnings from Environment and Climate Change Canada, US warnings from the National Weather Service. Waves from Open-Meteo's marine models. Tides from the Canadian Hydrographic Service and NOAA. Distance to the sea from Copernicus elevation data.

Wind is 10 m above ground, graded on the published Beaufort table for the unit shown. The second figure is the gust; on WeatherNext, ▲ is the windiest tenth of its 64 runs. The thin H across each bar runs from the lowest to the highest model (on WeatherNext, the middle 80% of runs): a wide H means the models disagree. Arrows point where the wind is heading; near the sea they turn orange when the wind blows out to sea and teal when it blows in from the sea.

When an Environment Canada station within 35 km has reported in the last 75 minutes, the next six hours are nudged toward its reading, fading back to the forecast; those hours carry a blue dot. "Calmest" is the three daylight hours left in each day with the lightest wind.

The strip down the left edge is gold in daylight, orange at dawn and dusk (sun up to 6° below the horizon) and navy at night, Behind each hour, the colour shows the sky: gold when sunny, pale cream when partly cloudy, grey when overcast, striped grey in fog; peach-toned at dawn and dusk; blue-violet on a clear night, slate when it's cloudy. Each day's heading starts with how sunny its daylight hours look.

Rain is what falls in that hour, as liquid water. A faint box means rain is unlikely (on the blend, only one of the five models has it). After the first three days, the 7-day view steps every 3 hours. Choosing mph also switches rain to inches, waves to feet and temperature to °F.