The Forecast
Romantic conditions for Greater Sydney, incorporating weather, pay-cycle proximity, lunar phase, and gazetted events. The poor-decision index runs from 0 to 10. It has been higher.
Severe Conditions Warning: payday Friday, clear skies, school holidays.
It has been determined that Friday the seventeenth (17th) presents a confluence of aggravating factors: payday, twenty-one (21) degrees, and a full complement of house parties in the inner west. The poor-decision index has been set accordingly. Curfews are recommended. Curfews are not enforceable. The Bureau is aware of both facts.
Prior conditions
Elevated conditions approaching the weekend perimeter.
Thursday operates, as ever, as an administrative Friday. A northerly change and the proximity of the weekend have been noted. Citizens intending to send a message they have already drafted twice are advised to complete Form RT-05 before proceeding.
Conditions stable. Restraint is anticipated but not assumed.
A dry midweek evening is forecast, eleven (11) days from the median payday. Citizens are advised that mid-cycle austerity historically suppresses poor decisions to tolerable levels. The Bureau will continue to monitor.