General June Weather

[Orion]

Very dull here at present, drizzling and looks like very thick cloud around.

[Richard]

dull here as well, but no drizzle though

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

dull here as well. ....anticyclonic gloom ?
Not much wind, well the NW blue overnight , but nothing much from the south or SW direction, from this morning, also rain fall.

[NZstorm]

That Tasman Sea low next weekend could produce snow to low levels in the Canterbury foothills?

[Bradley]

Looks like snow down to around 1000m next weekend for Canterbury so great for the ski fields if it comes off! Looks around 30-40cm of snow for Mt Hutt!

[NZstorm]

Looks like snow down to around 1000m next weekend for Canterbury so great for the ski fields if it comes off! Looks around 30-40cm of snow for Mt Hutt!

I was thinking down to 300m. But its just a guess this far out.

[Razor]

Early doors, but if that pans out if could be a warm advection set up? But of course its too early to be doing much more than educated speculation

[Richard]

If only it does eventuate, though it is looking more and more likely now. Planted trees in the weekend into soil that was bone dry, its so needed.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

They were talking bout heavy snow for Canterbury at work today, from Friday and I told them I didn't know what they were talking about. Could be snowy in the mountains but not down to sea level as they were indicating???

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Early doors, but if that pans out if could be a warm advection set up? But of course its too early to be doing much more than educated speculation

What does "early doors" mean?

[Manukau heads obs]

early days I suggest (typo)

[Roseo]

They were talking bout heavy snow for Canterbury at work today, from Friday and I told them I didn't know what they were talking about. Could be snowy in the mountains but not down to sea level as they were indicating???

That's an old "stuff" article that is doing the rounds on Facebook at the moment from 2013.... People think it's for this weekend but haven't noticed the date, or looked at the forecast..... They have all been sucked in

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

....that's social media for you

[einzack]

Coldest day of winter so far for us down here (well, there hasn't been any snow yet). Clear skies with a light frost this morning which then clouded over at sunrise (which is quite late!) to leave us with an utterly miserable day. Reached 7.6°C with a couple of mm of rain in the arvo/evening to top it all off. Shortest day tomorrow so it's all on the improve from here right?!?!

[Manukau heads obs]

Shortest day tomorrow so it's all on the improve from here right?!?!

not until August

[NZstorm]

Shortest day tomorrow so it's all on the improve from here right?!?!

not until August

Hopefully a sunny spring due La Nina.

Looking like both Wednesday and Thursday will offer us a thunder chance . With the low level shear tomorrow possibly an isolated tornado report.

[jamie]

I'm flying back from invercargil tomorrow evening. Could be a bumpy ride then?

It's a bit of a shock to see how late the sun rises and how early it sets down here. Mind you I've been here since Sunday night and I still haven't seen the sun due to cloud.

[Razor]

Early doors, but if that pans out if could be a warm advection set up? But of course its too early to be doing much more than educated speculation

What does "early doors" mean?

Not a typo...
From the Oxford Dictionary

Definition of early doors in English:
Early doors -

British informal Early on, especially in a game or contest:
‘you should try to wind up their star player early doors’

Apparently originally with reference to admission to a music hall some time before the start of the performance

[Manukau heads obs]

looks like Auckland has broken the temperature for the warmest shortest day recorded?
(might depend on what station you use?)

[Nev]

Winter solstice in NZ usually either falls on June 21st or 22nd.
Akld Aero's highest ever winter solstice temp is 20.0C recorded on June 22nd in 1998.


Edit: Having said that, both Mangere and Akld Aero's highest ever T-max for June 21st is 17.8C (based on available daily data from 1959 and 1966 respectively).

[Nev]

Looks likely to have been quite a few overnight temp records broken in the upper North Island last night for the time of year (and possibly even for the whole month of June?).

[SnwAddct]

Starting to look like majority of the SI ski fields will have to shut up shop soon if we cant get a change in weather paterns. Fingers crossed everything comes right.

[Orion]

Starting to look like majority of the SI ski fields will have to shut up shop soon if we cant get a change in weather paterns. Fingers crossed everything comes right.

It always comes right

[Bradley]

Starting to look like majority of the SI ski fields will have to shut up shop soon if we cant get a change in weather paterns. Fingers crossed everything comes right.

Never in doubt, they'll be sweet as this time next week

[James J.]

but not before we have a media panic story!