General February Weather

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 19/02/2014 16:21

Looks like Palmerston North was the hot spot today with 32C.

A humid warm day here, only a few drops of rain made it to my suburb. Ak max was around 25C, dewpoint around 19C.

Orion · Unread post by **Orion** » Wed 19/02/2014 16:49

Feels oppressive and airless this afternoon; a few spits of rain; cloudy all day.

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Wed 19/02/2014 17:36

Yes 70%humidity here at the moment with a high of 22deg

Manukau heads obs · Wed 19/02/2014 21:09

getting used to the warm humid weather surprisingly quickly
21C and nearly 20 DP here at 9pm this evening

tgsnoopy · Unread post by **tgsnoopy** » Wed 19/02/2014 21:55

Reminds me of visiting Darwin in some ways. Would appreciate a cool night, hard to sleep here without air conditioning. It's the longest hot/humid spell in a while and I think it's going to stick around a bit more yet.

melja · Unread post by **melja** » Wed 19/02/2014 22:12

I see the gang on the Canterbury weather updates page are going for temps into the 30s tomorrow and high 30s even 40C on Friday.
Seems a little over the top I would think.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Wed 19/02/2014 22:22

melja wrote:I see the gang on the Canterbury weather updates page are going for temps into the 30s tomorrow and high 30s even 40C on Friday.
Seems a little over the top I would think.

35C not out of the question for an official temperature on Friday, particularly Blenheim.

melja · Unread post by **melja** » Wed 19/02/2014 22:25

There talking Canterbury only, I have a feeling that the NWer will be around inland so that's going to moderate the temps from those levels there.

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Wed 19/02/2014 23:36

I think its not out of the question, upper level temps look to be about -5C to -6C on Friday with a present jet stream dragging the air across the Tasman.
To give you an idea upper air was -8C on Tuesday with temperatures around 33-34C, so give or take between 35-38C in some areas provided there is no cloud cover and a present more northerly quarter wind.
I seen the very warm set up for Tuesday from the weekend just gone and even when the MS were only going for 28C I knew it would get past that and they would be nowcasting.
Tomorrow could be early 30's but the cap will be an afternoon sea breeze for the east coast.

Orion · Unread post by **Orion** » Thu 20/02/2014 06:48

Mist coming in here now, which at this time of year can precede a very warm day.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Thu 20/02/2014 06:57

Its interesting that 40 years on from the hottest day recorded in NZ, we have never had a repeat of that warm airmass over NZ.
Typically the hot air masses from Australia moderate but not on that particular day.

Jason, you need to look at 850mb temperatures rather than 500mb for gauging likely max temps.

Manukau heads obs · Thu 20/02/2014 07:48

re my comment about getting used to the heat...one difference yesterday here was non sunshine...so the house had not heated up to the same level..so that helped

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Thu 20/02/2014 07:51

This current humid spell across NZ comes to an end at the weekend.
I like the humid weather, for me we get too much cool /cold weather in NZ through the year.

David · Unread post by **David** » Thu 20/02/2014 08:09

I'm curious why, for the last 2 days/nights, the easterly flow dies away overnight and turns gentle southerly, only to turn easterly again in the morning. Interesting effect. Losing the onshore flow has helped the temperature to drop away several degrees below the forecast minimum.

Manukau heads obs · Thu 20/02/2014 08:14

will be a land breeze at night

matttbs · Unread post by **matttbs** » Thu 20/02/2014 08:37

This summer is crap as, bring on winter I say

David · Unread post by **David** » Thu 20/02/2014 11:20

Manukau heads obs wrote:will be a land breeze at night

I thought it might be land breeze. I have seen easterlies do this in the past as well.

Anyway, a grey day here with some light drizzle patches, high of 27 doesn't look too likely here at this stage.

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Thu 20/02/2014 11:22

matttbs wrote:This summer is crap as, bring on winter I say

Why what's wrong with it?,too warm now?

Orion · Unread post by **Orion** » Thu 20/02/2014 11:33

Sun's out here now and that remaining low cloud will burn off

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Thu 20/02/2014 11:41

Same here,starting to get warm too

melja · Unread post by **melja** » Thu 20/02/2014 12:26

Just cloud cloud cloud here even some light drizzle still.

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Thu 20/02/2014 14:09

melja wrote:Just cloud cloud cloud here even some light drizzle still.

Steamy muggy hot sun in town

Manukau heads obs · Thu 20/02/2014 15:01

high of 26.9 here with 18C DP
muggy

melja · Unread post by **melja** » Thu 20/02/2014 15:19

Cloud cleared here at 2.30pm but still only 21C

einzack · Unread post by **einzack** » Thu 20/02/2014 15:33

hottest day of the year, unsurprisingly.
hit 33.2°C earlier - sitting on 32.8°C right now.
DP was 21.1°C but dropped away quite a bit since 2pm to 15.7°C now.
DP of 21.1°C was a station record.

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