Further Rain, Easterlies

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Thu 14/07/2005 21:07

updated see below:

Yes NZstorm looks like a chance for Thunder friday morning up your way

Manukau heads obs · Fri 15/07/2005 06:21

cold in dunedin this mornin, -3.3
http://www.fairfieldweather.info/

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Fri 15/07/2005 07:50

Thanks for the link Brian. Dunedin airport had -5C at 6am. Auckland's 6am temp was 15C!

Looks unstable over Taranaki this morning.

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Fri 15/07/2005 08:13

Looked at the 9pm radar last nite and got all excited about this huge blue blob out to the west..

It showered for a bit and that was it.

Possibility of weak tornadoes today I see.....

Lets hope for some crackle in the skies today

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Fri 15/07/2005 08:32

Thunder Forecast: Saturday night/Sunday Morning in the Northland and Auckland Area, a High Risk of thunderstorms. Again Good Cape, negative lifted Index, cold upper air and strong shear. Will contribute to a high risk of a thunderstorms. 10-15mm in places.

Also a low Risk of this system producing Tornadoes

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Fri 15/07/2005 08:50

Yes, an interesting temp spread across NZ this morning with cloudy high dew point air in the North and colder dryer air in the South.

15C, dewpoint 12C in Ak this morning T-shirt weather.

Manukau heads obs · Fri 15/07/2005 09:01

westerly now gusting to 35 knots here (60 kmh or so)
so with the wind, not quite t shirt weather, LOL
but 15.5 oc at 9am is pretty good for july here

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Fri 15/07/2005 09:40

T-shirt weather???

'Worst' day of the year so far here in the Waikato.

Heavy rain now almost horizontal, very strong northwesterlies rising to gale here.

16c though

Continuous heavy rain since about 10pm last night, but I think this is a very long shower at the moment, skies very black to the North and East, brightening a bit elsewhere. Havnt heard any noticable thunder, rain is a little hard.

edit:
I see Wellington's Aotea Quay by the caketin has been worse off with surface flooding, as has Egmont Village in Taranaki. Looks like Kaikoura has it the worst now.
-5 in Queenstown, while 16c up here... It's mid-winter now, 17c would be very unusual for this time of year here, probably not Auckland.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Fri 15/07/2005 10:06

here's my squall line

Heavy (shower) has eased, now just 'heavy drizzle' if that's possible

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Fri 15/07/2005 10:17

After the rain of yesterday, fine weather has returned to the Mackenzie.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Fri 15/07/2005 11:29

Brief squally showers here around 11am.
Should have mowed those lawns yesterday.

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Fri 15/07/2005 12:14

Nice stuff guys looks like a good day for TS in the north today.

Drizzle turned to rain here last night and gradually got slightly heavy also some sleet falling at about midnight when i checked outside before going to bed

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Still cloudy here but it is meant to clear very soon a lovly 13.6mm last night seemed the further north you headed the heavier the rain was compare that with say Timaru as to Kaiakoura.
Cheers
JASON.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Fri 15/07/2005 12:40

Few showers and fine spells now with moderate westerlies. Temp has dropped to 14c

Phew, that was quite a storm before!

(without thunder!)

To top it all off we're gonna get fog tonight

, as forecasted by MetService... can't see the frost though

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Fri 15/07/2005 13:20

Drizzle turned to rain here last night and gradually got slightly heavy also some sleet falling at about midnight when i checked outside before going to bed .

Same for central Chch but I didn't notice any sleet around midnight(and no snow on Port Hills this morning). Cleared here just before dawn; cloud returned late morning for a time, but clear again now.

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Fri 15/07/2005 15:30

It was definatly sleeting but only slightly mostly iam guessing it was large drops of rain perhaps it snowed quite well in North Canterbury does anyone know if Hamner got any snow last night? i would think they may have.

Fine spells and cloud off and on here now forecast -3C frost overnight another typical winters frost

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Cheers
JASON.

Thunder · Unread post by **Thunder** » Fri 15/07/2005 15:41

It may well get that cold tonight, however there is a SW flick working it's way up the SI east coast which could introduce some flow along the coast here. If it does and doesn't die out by morning we could see a low of only 1 degree? (maybe 3?) Chances are there will be some still period during the night so -2 seems a safe bet. Will be frosty inland.

Cheers

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Fri 15/07/2005 17:36

Jasestrm wrote:It was definatly sleeting but only slightly mostly iam guessing it was large drops of rain perhaps it snowed quite well in North Canterbury does anyone know if Hamner got any snow last night? i would think they may have.
Fine spells and cloud off and on here now forecast -3C frost overnight another typical winters frost .
Cheers
JASON.

hamner didnt get any snow as far as I can tell, this a midday webcam take.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Fri 15/07/2005 19:29

To top it all off we're gonna get fog tonight

Might get some fog around here as skies are clear, with light winds and still some moisture in the air, dew points are 9C.

Plenty of TS in the Tasman tonight with that Low out there.

Manukau heads obs · Fri 15/07/2005 20:02

wind dropped away this afternoon
so i think there will be fog in inland areas 2 nite...

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Fri 15/07/2005 20:20

Thunder Forecast: Saturday night/Sunday Morning in the Northland and Auckland Area, a High Risk of thunderstorms. Again Good Cape, negative lifted Index, cold upper air and strong shear. Will contribute to a high risk of a thunderstorms. 10-15mm in places.

Also a low Risk of this system producing Tornadoes

Yes, the ingredients look to be coming togeather, mild moist low level air with colder upper air coming in. A nice looking cold pool over the western/central Tasman tonight.

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Fri 15/07/2005 20:44

spwill wrote:Might get some fog around here as skies are clear, with light winds and still some moisture in the air, dew points are 9C.

I think TVNZ 6 PM weather called fog for half the country!

Fujita Phil · Unread post by **Fujita Phil** » Fri 15/07/2005 22:27

Lots of activity on the tracker out in the tasman!!!

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Sat 16/07/2005 01:43

Manukau heads observer wrote:wind dropped away this afternoon
so i think there will be fog in inland areas 2 nite...

Winds are light here and fog-free & mainly fine this early morning

Yet more easterlies developing today and rain, which should be heavy during the night.
Heavy in Northland during the afternoon. Late Northwest change Auckland northwards however.

It looks 'quite' heavy for the garden city on Tuesday however.

Thunder · Unread post by **Thunder** » Sat 16/07/2005 09:47

Well what do you know. Didn't get down to -3 at all here in Chch, we only went down to +3. Pretty pleased with my previous estimate!

It looks like inland areas didn't even get a frost.

It looks as if there was some flow from the sw at night, but it may of also been a combination of some cloud etc to that helped keep temps up.

Looking foward to the thunderstorm reports coming in hopefully!! Last time I looked there didn't seem to be great wind strength in the shear but there was quite good directional shear (turning in the atmosphere) so that could well counteract that fact. Anyway, hopefully someone gets something!

Cheers.

TonyT · Unread post by **TonyT** » Sat 16/07/2005 10:14

Aaron J Wilkinson wrote:Well what do you know. Didn't get down to -3 at all here in Chch, we only went down to +3. Pretty pleased with my previous estimate! It looks like inland areas didn't even get a frost.

It looks as if there was some flow from the sw at night, but it may of also been a combination of some cloud etc to that helped keep temps up.

With all the fog and low cloud around in North Canterbury yesterday the humidity was always going to be too high to allow a clear night, low cloud was inevitable. It may have been different from CHCH southwards though, with less cloud and mist there yesterday.