General January Weather

[Richard]

In there just the usual dribble we come to expect from stuff.co.nz, 130mm is not even half of last year

Many farms received 20-30 millimetres by Thursday morning with some Hawarden farmers in the hard-hit Hurunui district adding the January total so far to 130mm - 22 times more than the same month a year ago and more than they got for all of last year.

[cbm]

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Seems like today should not have been as warm in upper NI but still nudged 29C. Airflow looks like it is coming from the Southern Ocean.

[spwill]

The warm weather has been great, looks like we will keep the general warm humid trend through next week.

[RWood]

The last 1/3 of the month here has been abysmally cloudy, to the point where the monthly sun will be close to a record low in 89 years of Kelburn data. Local "lore" has it that "Always gets better around about Anniversary weekend" - in this case, couldn't be further off the mark.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Should be a rather cloudy month for Canterbury as there hasn't been much sun shine with the last 5 days have seen bugger all sunshine.

[dogmelon]

It has been the worst summer ever here for vegetable gardening. The grass grows well but that's it.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

It has been the worst summer ever here for vegetable gardening. The grass grows well but that's it.

Yes, mowed the ruddy lawns today, and the tomatoes are not looking all that good.
Also today, noticed mushrooms growing in damp places around this selected house.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

112.9mm of rain here for the month which makes it the wettest January we have experienced here.
Sunshine hours will be down because of the days of low cloud and clagg hanging around.

[trickytiger]

Rangitata figures this month:

Avg temp: 15.7°C
Avg Minimum: 11.3°C
Avg Maximum: 20.6°C
Minimum temp: 5.1°C on 14th
Maximum temp: 30.2°C on 22nd
Rainfall: 91.6mm (14 days of rain, 30.6mm on 19th) YTD 91.6mm

[Razor]

It has been the worst summer ever here for vegetable gardening. The grass grows well but that's it.

Where are you based? Our vege gardern is going gangbusters in Cracroft! The moisture and a larger than normal number of 30+ degree days in between have been fantastic for vege growth for us

[David]

Stats for Howick, Jan 2016

First half was wetter and milder. Second half was warmer, drier, humid.

Avg temp 20.7C
Avg daily max 24.8C
Avg daily min 16.9C
Hottest 28.4C
Coldest 11.8C
Total rain 114.6mm

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[Nev]

In contrast to December, January 2016 was generally a warm, wet and cloudy month, apart from notably cooler than normal temps for the east and south of the South Island.

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Some very preliminary January 2016 figures for the main centres:

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Jan 2016 Average Temps, Rainfall and departures from their 1981-2010 normals ℅ NIWA

Site                      T-max °C       T-min °C       T-mean °C    Rainfall mm

Auckland, Mangere        24.9  +1.5     17.4  +1.5     21.2  +1.6     117  191% 
Auckland Aero            24.6  +1.0     17.2  +1.2     20.9  +1.1     128  194% 
Tauranga Aero            24.1  +0.2     17.0  +1.9     20.6  +1.1     104  133%
Hamilton Aero            25.3  +1.0     13.7  +1.3     19.5  +1.2      75   91% 
Hamilton, Ruakura        25.2  +1.2     14.6  +1.7     19.9  +1.5      89  113% 
Wellington, Kelburn      20.7  +0.4     14.5  +1.0     17.6  +0.7      96  127% 
Christchurch Aero        21.0  -1.6     12.2  +0.3     16.6  -0.6      93  260% 
Dunedin, Musselburgh     17.7  -1.2     10.9  -0.7     14.3  -1.0      81  112% 
Greymouth Aero           19.4  -0.4     13.3  +0.9     16.3  +0.2     269  129%

Note that there was the odd isolated downpour in South Auckland where readings are taken. The last day also saw an isolated downpour in Ruakura, Hamilton, whereas Hamilton Aero remained dry.

[NZstorm]

Grey Lynn averaged min 16.7C to max 25.3C with 114mm.

[Nev]

Grey Lynn averaged min 16.7C to max 25.3C with 114mm.

Also worth noting that Ricky's Grey Lynn daily max of 29.7C on the 24th and 29.6C on the 23rd just pipped his previous all time record of 29.5C set in Feb 2015 in over 12 years of records...

[Chris Raine]

I had 344.2mm of rain at Runanga 7km north of Greymouth for January. Heaviest rain was 81.2mm on 27th on same system that gave 533mm at Haast over 4 days

[Nev]

Here's NIWA's preliminary, 'January National Climate Summary'.

A warm start to the year for the North and wet for many


The national average temp of 17.6C was 0.6C above normal.

The month's highest temp of 34.4C was recorded at Gisborne on the 24th and the lowest of -1.2C was recorded at Manapouri on the 4th.

[spwill]

For Auckland we had a very good last two weeks to the month after a not particularly good start.

[NZstorm]

Global temp anomalies for January. The warmest January on record for the globe.

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Source: http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-b ... 1/55450521

[Manukau heads obs]

I suspect more records will be broken this year, as heat in the pacific ocean from (now slowly fading) El Nino keeps on trickling into the atmosphere/global weather patterns, etc
There are people though who still don't want to believe anything is happening..and think the data is all manipulated (sometimes it has been...but there are valid reasons why (station location changed for example)
...and if it hasa changed..then oh....its a natural cycle...
the biggest problem is the speed of change...nature is not all that fast at adapting...