This layer of air pollutants caught my eye over Auckland this morning.
Radiative cooling at night produces a temperature inversion off the surface which traps emissions such as vehicle fumes. All thanks to the big Anticyclone over NZ at the moment.
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Wow! I didn't relise Auckland had pollution like that, I thought we were the only ones here in Chch because of us being stuck between Banks peninsula and the Alps.
As Micheal often says it is always raining and I'm guessing possibly windy to in Auckland, does that mean pollution isn't genuraly a problem in Auckland because it would get blowen out to sea? Here in Chch it just hangs around because in winter time it doesn't get hugly windy when a big high is over us.
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As Micheal often says it is always raining and I'm guessing possibly windy to in Auckland, does that mean pollution isn't genuraly a problem in Auckland because it would get blowen out to sea? Here in Chch it just hangs around because in winter time it doesn't get hugly windy when a big high is over us.
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Interesting picture, Steven.
I have seen skies like that looking over ChCh from the Summit Road on the Port Hills on still anticyclonic days in Jan and Feb.
It would of made a good picture on the TV ONe or TV3 weather.
I don't think there will be a frost tonight in Chch, now 8C with a fresh ENE blowing. No frost here this morning, I got down to 3c, the same at the airport. Also I don't think the barometer got up to 1038hPa as what MetService's noon reading said. My baro peaked at 1033.7hpa here and went down slightly at noon.
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I have seen skies like that looking over ChCh from the Summit Road on the Port Hills on still anticyclonic days in Jan and Feb.
It would of made a good picture on the TV ONe or TV3 weather.
I don't think there will be a frost tonight in Chch, now 8C with a fresh ENE blowing. No frost here this morning, I got down to 3c, the same at the airport. Also I don't think the barometer got up to 1038hPa as what MetService's noon reading said. My baro peaked at 1033.7hpa here and went down slightly at noon.
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