You book the slab pour in October, for the second week of March. The forecast that finally reaches that week is issued the Sunday before it — five months after you committed, three days before the truck arrives. That gap, between the day you have to decide and the day anyone will tell you anything, is the entire reason this report exists.
A 16-page almanac, built to order for one town and one calendar year, dating the wet runs, dry stretches, heat surges and gale windows across all 365 days. Calculated the way George McCormack set the method out in 1947, and scored against roughly fifty years of your own town’s climate record. Includes a daily fault-line strain index.
AUD $97 · custom built for one location & year · instant private access
Radar and numerical pressure models are superb instruments. They will tell you whether to carry an umbrella tomorrow afternoon, and they will be right. Push them past about ten days and they fall apart — not because the software is poor, but because the atmosphere itself stops being predictable that way. That is physics, and no amount of computing power fixes it.
Which leaves a gap. The wedding is booked eight months out. The roof crew has a slot in April. The slab pour, the harvest, the shearing, the three-week window when the excavator is available — every one of those decisions gets made months before any model on earth has a single thing to say about the day in question.
So you guess. You look at what the weather “usually” does in April, you cross your fingers, and you find out about the rain event about forty-eight hours before it lands on your open trenches.
Here is the fair objection, and you should be asking it: if the atmosphere is genuinely unpredictable past ten days, how could anyone possibly date next April?
The answer is that this is not the same kind of forecast. It does not attempt to model the atmosphere forward day by day. It reads each day of the year from astronomical cycles — positions and angles that are known centuries ahead — and scores that reading against what your own town’s climate record says is normal for that date. Different instrument, different question, different failure mode. It will never beat radar at Thursday. Radar will never reach April at all.
Book the roof replacement, the pour, the render, the earthworks into the weeks that read driest on your own coordinates — while the trades still have slots open.
See the rain runs, dry stretches and temperature swings laid out by date across the whole season, not as a single state-wide seasonal probability.
Choose the wedding date, the reunion, the trip — knowing which weekends in that month flag as gale or storm-risk windows and which read quiet.
Note what is not being offered. Nobody is promising rain at 3:00pm on a specific Tuesday, and you should walk away from anyone who does. What you get is a dated map of when your town reads wet or dry, calm or wild — far enough ahead that you can still move the date. Which is the only point at which a forecast is any use to you at all.
We did not invent a mechanism and give it a trademark. The day-by-day method behind your report is McCormack’s, set out in his Text-Book of Long Range Weather Forecasting in 1947 after twenty-three years of research, and expanded into a full instruction course, Long-Range Astro-Weather Forecasting, in 1965. Both have been reprinted and you can still buy them. We would rather you knew that.
It sits inside an older Australian line of the same work. In 1888 the colonial meteorologist Clement Wragge talked a teenager named Inigo Jones into a cadetship in his Brisbane office, and trained him for five years. Jones spent the rest of his life on the one question, and by 1923 — the year he called the break of a long dry spell and the newspapers ran it — Queensland graziers were writing to him for dates.
Jones is not someone we are asking you to take on faith. Thirty years before that forecast, on 3 February 1893, he read the rain gauge at his family’s farm at Crohamhurst, north of Brisbane, and wrote down 907 millimetres for the day. It is still the heaviest daily fall ever recorded anywhere in Australia. He was twenty years old.
Two questions sat behind both men’s work. What makes a season run wet or dry, months before it does it? And can that be dated in advance, rather than guessed at forty-eight hours out?
Your report is those questions, answered for your coordinates and your year: all 365 days read from the cycles, then scored against roughly fifty years of what counts as normal for your town on that date. Rain, wind, heat and humidity, on one chart, so you read them together. The days that matter are the ones that pull hard away from your own normal.
One thing we will not do, and you should know it before you buy: the report gives you the forecast, not the rules behind it. The maths stays in-house. If what you want is the method itself rather than the reading, this is the wrong product and you should not spend the $97.
Facing the weather pages, one more index — a daily fault-line strain reading, calculated on our own method. Be clear about what that is: a strain index, not an earthquake prediction. Nobody predicts earthquakes, us included. It marks the days the index runs high, and leaves the interpretation to you.
No filler chapters, no padded introduction to the history of weather. Here is the whole report, page by page:
A title page carrying your name, your town’s coordinates, and the calendar year you chose.
Which climate record your readings were scored against — including a plain statement if the nearest well-recorded station is not in your town.
Rain, wind, heat and humidity, every day of your year, on one chart you can read across.
The daily strain index for the same 365 days, with the highest-reading days marked by date. A strain reading, not a quake prediction.
Twelve detail pages — one per month, day by day — each listing that month’s notable windows and its strongest day per measure.
Reads on a phone, and prints clean to A4 — for the ones that end up pinned in a site shed.
• You are putting money on a date months out — a pour, a re-roof, a hire deposit — and the date is still movable.
• You farm, and the gap between a good year and a lean one is when the rain comes, not how much of it.
• You are choosing between four possible Saturdays and currently have nothing to choose on.
• You study cycle work, and would rather read a long-range method’s actual output than another article about it.
• You want a promise about a specific day. This gives you windows. If you cannot plan on a window, do not buy it.
• You need to know about the next two hours. Use your bureau’s warnings — they are excellent at the exact job this cannot do.
• A state-wide seasonal outlook is enough for you. That already exists, and it is free.
• You want the method rather than the reading. The maths stays in-house. Buy McCormack’s text-book instead — we are not hiding that it exists.
Now the part most sales pages leave out.
There is no published accuracy figure for this method. None. Not a modest one, not a flattering one — we have not published a scored backtest against station records, and we are not going to imply one exists by dressing the page in percentages. If a long-range weather product quotes you a hit rate, ask to see the working, because the honest answer in this field is that almost nobody has done it properly.
That should cost us the sale with a certain kind of buyer, and it probably will. Fine. We would rather lose that sale than take $97 from someone who thinks they are buying a guarantee.
But it leaves an obvious question, so let us answer it the only way that is actually fair to you.
Judge the output yourself. Before you spend anything.
Not a teaser page with the good parts blurred out. The full year below, and the complete 16-page report on the link underneath — produced by the same engine that will build yours.
A sample report generated for Brisbane, QLD. Your almanac will be generated for your chosen town and year.
Checkout, then a single form: which town, which calendar year. Nothing else to fill in.
The engine runs your exact coordinates against your local climate record and writes all sixteen pages — usually about a minute, occasionally a few. No queue, no “allow 3–5 business days”.
Bookmark it, read it on your phone on site, or print the year to A4. The link stays live for 18 months.
Three reasons to do this. They are not the same reason, and only one of them is about the $97.
First: what not knowing keeps costing you. The $97 is not the money at stake here. The money at stake is the pour that goes down four days before a wet run and has to come up again. The crew stood down. The marquee hired for a Saturday that turned. You are already paying for the missing year — you are just paying it in rework and rebooking fees instead of in a line item you can see.
Second: what it makes you. Everyone on your street reacts to the week. Almost nobody plans the year. Not because it cannot be done — graziers were writing to Jones for dates in 1923 — but because almost nobody goes and gets the dates. Having a dated map on the wall in January changes which questions you can ask in March. It changes them for the person who books the trades, rather than the person who gets told when they can come.
Third: exactly what arrives, and when. No ambiguity here at all:
A long-range weather almanac in the McCormack tradition — for planning, study and cycle analysis. Guidance, not certainty. No change-of-mind refunds once access is released. This does not limit your rights under the Australian Consumer Law.
Immediately after checkout, you land on a calculation form where you enter your chosen town and calendar year. Our server generates your custom 16-page report — usually about a minute, occasionally a few — and presents your private access link. You can bookmark the link (live for 18 months), view it on any device, or print it directly to A4 paper.
No, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you something worse than this. Long-range cycle forecasting reads each day from astronomical cycles and scores it against your location's own long-run climate record. It gives you the broader windows — wet runs, dry stretches, gale windows, unseasonable temperature shifts — dated 365 days out. Treat it as a planning tool. Do not treat it as a safety-critical warning system; for that, use your bureau's short-range alerts, which are excellent at exactly the job this cannot do.
Your report is generated to order for your exact geographical coordinates and selected calendar year — not a generic state average or pre-written template. Rain, wind, and heat readings are scored against your location’s own long-run climate normal baseline.
Yes. Each report is generated for one specific location and one calendar year. If you own property in different regions or want to compare past years against upcoming ones, you can order a separate report for each location and year.
It uses astronomical position mathematics — the same category of cycle work Inigo Jones and George McCormack built on. We are not going to dress that up as a modern meteorological model, and we don't publish the underlying rules. Call it what you like: it is a long-range cycle method, it is not accepted meteorology, and it is not a substitute for short-range radar. If that description alone rules it out for you, that is a completely reasonable position and you should not buy it.
A seasonal outlook from a bureau of meteorology gives you a broad regional probability (e.g. "above-average rainfall likely this season" for an entire state). Your almanac is calculated for your specific coordinates and gives dated wet/dry/windy windows across the full 365 days, not a single seasonal probability statement.
The report is calculated from your coordinates and the best available regional climate record for that location. If your exact town has a thin weather-station history, the baseline draws on the nearest well-recorded station — this is disclosed on Page 2 of your report, not hidden.
Modern numerical weather models are excellent at 3-10 day forecasts and unreliable much past that — that's a physics limitation of the atmosphere, not a software problem. Long-range cycle forecasting doesn't compete with radar models on short-range accuracy; it exists specifically to give a directional read on the months current models can't reach at all.
It's priced as a planning aid, not a guarantee — which is why it's $97 and not $970. If you're scheduling a five-figure project, a dated map of likely wet and dry windows 365 days out is worth having even though no long-range method can promise you a specific day. And you don't have to take our word for any of it: the full Brisbane report is free above. Read it first. If it doesn't look like something you'd use, don't buy it.
Be clear on this before you order. Your report is built to order the moment you submit your town and year, and you usually have the finished thing within a minute, occasionally a few — so there are no change-of-mind refunds once access is released. This does not limit your rights under the Australian Consumer Law. This is exactly why the complete Brisbane report is published free above, with nothing withheld: we would rather you decided from the actual output than from a sales page.
If you read nothing else on this page, read this. We publish no accuracy figure, because we have not published a scored backtest — so instead we publish the entire Brisbane report, free, nothing held back. Read it, decide from the actual output, and if it looks useful, $97 builds the same sixteen pages for your town and your year, usually inside a minute.
On timing, plainly: the report is dated to a calendar year. Every week you wait is a week of that year you have already lived — and you still get the pages for it.