Phase can show weather, forecast views, rainfall, weather station widgets, map weather layers and a Conditions outlook for spraying, baling, harvest, seeding and spreading.

The heading says what you have, for example "5 weather and rain sources · 3 water monitors · 1 other device · all on the map", or "4 of 6 on the map" when some aren't pinned. Beside it are Actions (Sync all stations, which syncs every connected station at once, and Quick walkthrough) and Add sensor.

Sources are grouped under Weather and rain, Tanks and troughs, and Other devices, one row each: the name, provider and ID, a status label (Connected, Stale, Error, Off, Online, Warning or Offline), Default on the default station, and the latest reading. A station that needs reconnecting says why under its row. Each row's ••• menu holds the rest:

Add sensor opens a list of types, then the details, then the location: pin it on the farm map, or choose Enter coordinates to type them in. Test connection shows "Connected" or the error. Set as default used to be called Make primary.

Phase can work with:

To add Davis WeatherLink stations, log in to WeatherLink and find your API v2 key and secret in profile/account information. A WeatherLink account may include multiple stations.

Once a Davis station is linked, Phase reads its current conditions every hour and also downloads the station's stored history back to 1 January of the current year, so the year's rainfall builds up in Phase without you re-entering it. The download starts the moment you save the station and works backwards from the newest weeks; WeatherLink releases one day per request, so a full year normally takes a minute or two to arrive. If you open Rainfall straight after linking and the first part of the year is still empty, give it a couple of minutes and refresh.

Station history needs a WeatherLink Pro or Pro+ plan for that station. A station on the Basic plan still shows current conditions in Phase, but WeatherLink does not release its stored history, so past rainfall stays blank until the plan is upgraded. Phase checks again each day, so an upgrade or a corrected API key picks up on its own.

Weather Underground stations can provide current conditions when configured with station details and API access. Historical Weather Company PWS data may depend on the user’s API access.

Add a DPIRD public station from Sensors → Add sensor → DPIRD public station: search for one by name, or pick one near the farm. Add only the stations relevant to your farm so the map and widgets stay useful. There is no separate DPIRD list on the Sensors page any more.

Manual rain gauges let users record rainfall directly. They can appear on the map and in weather/rainfall views. Add one with Add gauge in Weather & Climate, or Sensors → Add sensor → Manual rain gauge. A gauge shows its month bars, a calendar and a box for the day's millimetres.

Manual entries should be used for the gauge record itself. The rain used for yield WUE is chosen per farm in Yield Centre (Rainfall for production) and never changes the station or gauge rainfall history.

More → Data Centres → Weather & Climate has four tabs: Climate, Overview, Records and Stations. Under them is the heading with a line saying what the tab shows, Add gauge (on Overview, Records and Stations) and an Actions menu with Import data and Quick walkthrough.

On Climate, the rainfall history, this year against the long-term average, the monthly averages and the growing-season (April to October) figures are charts you can read with a finger or the mouse: run along a line to read each year or month. Rainfall is blue and the long-term average is a dashed dark line. Station statuses (Connected, Stale, Error, Off) and record sources (Station, Manual, Edited, Imported) are small labels. On Records, Years loads the yearly totals, and on Stations, View records opens that station's own records.

Annual rainfall history on the Climate tab has two views. Totals, the default, is the yearly totals chart. By month draws each year as one ridge, January to December across the bottom, with the height the rain that fell each month. The newest year sits at the front and older years step back behind it, so wet winters, dry springs and summer storms line up down the page.

If a farm's rainfall history hasn't been loaded yet, someone who can edit the farm sees Load rainfall history in the By month view. It loads the farm's SILO record from 1950, takes about a minute, and doesn't change the rainfall the rest of the Climate page uses.

The Rainfall tile on Overview shows the same station total you see in Weather & Climate for that station; it no longer flashes one figure and then changes. The Rain gauges tile adds up every reading typed into a manual rain gauge this year, including backdated ones, and compares it with the same date last year. If the tile shows 0 mm while the gauge has entries, reload Phase.

On Weather & Climate → Overview, changing station reloads that station's rainfall and temperature. Year and month totals come from the station's saved daily record, so a DPIRD site is not counted twice. A rainfall day ends at 9 am, for DPIRD and (since 9 October 2026) BoM stations alike: overnight rain counts once, in the day ending 9 am, and today's rain since 9 am counts toward tomorrow. Saved readings and rainfall totals open as soon as they are available, and refreshing history queues a background check while the saved weather stays on screen.

Each weather station can have its own widget on Overview (manual rain gauges are on the Rain gauges widget instead), headed with the station's name and the time of its latest reading (or "offline" when it has stopped reporting).

Temperatures show one decimal place, and a reading the station has not sent shows a dash. Tap the widget to open the station's details, with humidity, charts and history. To switch between square and wide, use Customise on Overview.

Adding a rain gauge, importing data, adding or editing a day's record, setting the default station, placing a station on the map and opening a station in Sensors all need permission to edit the farm. Team members without it, such as an advisor on a client's farm, can open Weather & Climate and read everything, but those buttons don't appear. Refresh saved history on the Stations tab is available to every team member. On Overview, an offline station's widget says it is offline for them instead of asking them to reconnect it.

A grower with a view-only login can open Weather & Climate and see the farm's rainfall against the long-term normal, rainfall history, daily records, stations and rain gauges. That's the free login a grower gets when their agronomist runs the farm in Phase Advisor. They can't add or change anything. The Rainfall, Rain gauges and weather station cards on their Overview show the farm's readings.

If the farm's rainfall isn't set up yet, anyone who can't set it up sees Rainfall isn't set up yet and what it's waiting for: a paddock with a boundary, or someone who can edit the farm opening Weather & Climate once. On a farm an agronomist runs, the message says the agronomist needs to turn it on.

The Conditions widget on Overview (it used to be called Spray Conditions) scores the forecast for the job you are on. Pick one of five activities and the chart, the limits and the verdicts all change to suit it:

The widget shows the activity you last chose in the outlook. The big number is the current reading, and the 24-hour line beneath it is drawn against your own limits, shaded as a band with the numbers down the right-hand edge; for harvest the fire-danger ban indicator is a dashed red line. A pulsing dot marks the current hour, with the start, middle and end times underneath. The verdict reads Within limits, Watch or Outside limits, with a line such as "Good until 2 pm" or "Watch until 11 am" and the reason. For spraying and spreading the wind reading carries its direction ("7 km/h ↗ SW") and the wide widget says whether it holds or swings ("W by 2 pm").

To change which activity the widget shows, open it and choose another activity at the top of the outlook. The widget stays on that activity until you choose again.

Tap the widget to open the Conditions outlook. Choose the activity in the row at the top (on a phone the row scrolls sideways), then the measurement you want under the day buttons.

Numbers are no longer printed on every point; drag across the chart to read an hour. The Day/Week switch and the separate day picker have been replaced by the single row of day buttons.

Beside the chart, Next window gives the next run of hours within all your limits; Show this window jumps the chart to it. Under that are the selected hour's readings for every measurement. Chart times use the farm's clock.

Select My limits at the top of the outlook to set the limits for the activity on screen, such as maximum wind and gust, delta T range and rain chance for spraying, or the ban figure, grass curing, fuel load, humidity and dew margin for harvest. The whole outlook re-scores as you change them, and Reset to defaults puts them back. Delta T is the true dry-bulb minus wet-bulb figure (20 °C at 50% humidity is about 6.2). Before 9 October 2026 it read roughly double, so good mornings were marked Watch or Avoid; expect more hours in range now. Spray records completed before then keep the Delta T they were saved with. Each activity keeps its own limits; spray limits you tuned before the rename still apply to Spraying. Your chosen activity and limits are remembered on the device you set them on.

With Harvest chosen, a Ban outlook for the next seven days sits under the chart. Each day shows the grassland fire danger index it is expected to reach with its rating word ("Moderate", "High"), and a dot and words say where the day sits against your ban figure: "Well below 35", "Below 35", "Close to 35", "At or above 35" or "Well above 35". The days are not coloured in, so read the words under the number. How likely each day is (Very likely, Likely, Possible or Unlikely) comes from running the index down six separate forecast models (ECMWF, ECMWF's AI model, GFS, BoM ACCESS, the Canadian and UK models) and counting how many reach your figure; the day shows a dot for each model, "5 of 6 models", the spread between the highest and lowest model, and the hours when it gets there. Change the ban figure, grass curing or fuel load in My limits and the outlook re-scores around it.

This is not a ban notice. Harvest and vehicle movement bans are declared by your local government or bushfire control officer, can be declared partway through a day as conditions turn, and some shires now work from the AFDRS Fire Behaviour Index rather than the grassland index. Always go by the official declaration. Model agreement is not certainty either: the models share observations, so when they all agree they can still all be wrong together.

With Baling chosen, When was it cut? takes the date and time you cut. The Swath curing panel then models how the swath dries from that time: the moisture now, when it reaches your bale-at figure (Ready), the baling windows (night hours included), how much rain lands on the swath and how much moisture it picks back up from dew overnight. Leave the cut time empty and Phase models a paddock cut right now, which answers whether it is worth dropping the mower today. Set the crop, swath treatment, package and moisture band in My limits. The curing chart fits the screen without scrolling sideways, with a key in words underneath.

The moisture figure is a modelled estimate from the forecast, not a measurement. It does not know your paddock, your swath density or how the crop laid down, so check with a moisture meter before you bale.

Phase Agent reads the same outlook when you ask "when can I spray?", "any chance of a harvest ban Friday?" or "right to bale on the weekend?". It uses the standard limits, not ones you have tuned, and needs the paddock to have a saved location.

This is guidance only, worked out from forecast data. Never treat it as a statement that it is safe to spray. Always check the product label, permits, local conditions and adviser recommendations before spraying.

Check the saved station, station location, provider credentials and the selected farm and season first.

If a Davis WeatherLink station shows recent rainfall but months earlier in the year are empty, the history download is usually still working backwards from today; it starts when the station is saved, normally reaches 1 January within a minute or two, and Phase keeps retrying every hour if WeatherLink was slow. If a gap is still there an hour later, contact support with the station name and the months affected and Phase will re-run the download for that station. You do not need to enter the missing months by hand.

If a station shows current conditions but no history at all, check its WeatherLink plan: history needs Pro or Pro+. Weather Underground history similarly depends on the level of Weather Company API access on your key. Manual rain gauges keep whatever you record.

Days Phase has saved from a Weather Underground or DPIRD station count in rainfall totals and in Phase Agent's rainfall answers. A day the station never sent stays missing; it is not counted as 0 mm.

If the Conditions outlook says "Connect weather or set a farm location to show conditions", it usually means the farm has no mapped paddocks for Phase to take the forecast from. The outlook forecasts for the middle of your paddocks, so add or import paddock boundaries in More → Farms & Fields. If the chart says "No hourly forecast yet", give it a moment and open it again.