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Re: General October Weather

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spwill wrote:Greylynn has had 78.2 mm, below the Auckland monthly average.
151mm here so probably about 40mm above normal at a guess.
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NZstorm wrote:Longer range the gfs is indicating a hot airmass reaching NZ from Aussie early next week. I hope that verifies.
Yes ive just seen that. Looks like some rather warm air! Should see some hot temps in ausie this weekend as it starts its journey (if it happens of course)
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23 degrees here in sunny glorious ChCh already. Bliss.
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Razor wrote:23 degrees here in sunny glorious ChCh already. Bliss.
It sure is! 24.9 now at Jeffs with a light NE breeze! Just stunning!
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26 degrees now but still a NE breeze. I see Airport is on 24.5 with a 20km/h E at the moment. NW change could push the mercury to 27/28 if it happens in the next hour or so. Ashburton has a more Northerly flow at the moment around 25 there. Nice to see these sunshine hours today though.
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Yes a warm 25.2 here in town.....dewpoints in the low teens
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big change in the weather here in auckland area...thickening cloud and looks like it might even drizzle/mist
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NW breeze now being recorded at the airport and 26 degrees there. Still light NE over this side of town also on 26. Thin high cloud about now though. Looking at the month, this is quite easily the warmest day, saved the best for the very last of it! Tomorrow into Wednesday looks quite dramatic on the 3 day forecast covering quite a wide area .
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The last day of Oct saw the month's warmest temps in the E of the South Island (pushing average temps up by 2-3 points). The E of the North Island's warmest temps were on the 25th and 26th...

Daily Max Temps for Oct 2011 c/o MeService

26.6C - Dunedin City (31st)
25.7C - Christchurch Aero (31st)
25.3C - Ashburton Aero (31st)
25.1C - Timaru Aero (31st)
25.3C - Oamaru (31st)
24.7C - Oamaru Aero (31st)
24.9C - Dunedin Aero (31st)

25.1C - Blenheim Aero (30th)

26.3C - Napier Aero (25th)
26.1C - Napier City 25th)
24.9C - Hastings (25th)
25.5C - Gisborne Aero (26th)


P.S. Highest temp here was 22.6C on Sunday (30th). :cool:
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October summary - unlovely for many. Record low sunshine for Ch'ch (1930+) (though that was still 70% of average), 3rd lowest for Wellington in 106 years of city records.

http://www.niwa.co.nz/sites/default/fil ... er2011.pdf
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^ Highest gust was 183 km/h at Stewart Island's Southwest Cape on the 24th. The mast of the NIWA climate station at Mt Cook was destroyed, after gusts to 180 km/h were recorded there. 8-o
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I see Mt Cook still came up with monthly totals/means for temp, rainfall, sunshine and the wind stats...
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Wow I didn't realize Lake Tekapo township got 80cm of snow on the 19th.
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carrot wrote:Wow I didn't realize Lake Tekapo township got 80cm of snow on the 19th.
There might have been 80cm in some higher altitude areas but there certainly wasnt that much in the township,I was talking to someone up there the morning after that fall and they said there was 31cm of snow in the township.
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RWood wrote:I see Mt Cook still came up with monthly totals/means for temp, rainfall, sunshine and the wind stats...
Interesting. Their month's mean wind-speed obviously shouldn't be there. Hasn't been any credible wind data since that 180 km/h gust evidently took out the anemometer-mast, around 9-10pm on the 24th.
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