When Mr. and Mrs. Dursley woke up on the dull, grey Tuesday, our story starts, there was nothing about the cloudy sky outside to suggest that strange and mysterious things would soon be happening all over the country.
Later in the afternoon, there will be a few scattered showers. By midnight it will become cloudy in most areas and there will be heavy rain with winds becoming strong and reaching gale force along the coast.
Back on solid but sodden ground, many people in the eastern Australian state of New South Wales are looking forward to a partly cloudy weekend forecast.