General March Weather
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General March Weather
Looks like a dry and warm start for the month but then towards the end of the month, things could become wintry with the occasional cold snap.?
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Re: General March Weather
To say the first half of March looks boring for Canterbury is an understatement, no wind, no rain (0.0mm forecast for 10 days with EC), no heat events or substantial cold snaps, here's hoping we get something more interesting in the second half of the month!
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Re: General March Weather
Those of us with kids plus family visiting from afar beg to differ...
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Re: General March Weather
Yeah long may it continue, the best boating weather in the sounds I can remember this summer.
Get out and enjoy the outdoors I say.
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Re: General March Weather
With settled weather, it does make for less postings and does make this forum rather quiet
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Re: General March Weather
Yep I’m over this dry air boring summer. December was great as we had the humidity. Little to no afternoon sea breeze convergences this summer which is very odd.
Think I’ll check out of here until something decent arises. I’ve stopped looking at the milk docket from each pickup too.
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Re: General March Weather
Sunny and dry Jan-Feb was well overdue for us, may it continue a bit longer yet.
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Re: General March Weather
Another pyrocumulus cloud formed briefly overhead from a burnoff near us here.
I see they are going crook about burn-offs this time of year especially in Waimate where the town was engulfed in burn-off smoke last Tuesday from a such burn-off which irrated some of the local residents
I see they are going crook about burn-offs this time of year especially in Waimate where the town was engulfed in burn-off smoke last Tuesday from a such burn-off which irrated some of the local residents
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Re: General March Weather
Canterbury farmers love a good burn off at this time of year. I was down there March a few years back and there were burn offs.
Pukakai Airport go the high today with 27C after a frosty 1C start to the day. Auckland airport 25C after a 14C start.
Pukakai Airport go the high today with 27C after a frosty 1C start to the day. Auckland airport 25C after a 14C start.
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Beautiful sunny day here, had that early autumn feel with a coolish start and a warm but not too warm afternoon, getting to 23.5C
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Re: General March Weather
Must of been some drizzle overnight as there was 0.5mm in the rain-gauge (got up late this morning and the sky was totally clear)
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Re: General March Weather
it looks like a tornado to me. im not saying it is. i know its not. but does remind me of a tornadoNZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: ↑Fri 01/03/2019 16:52 Another pyrocumulus cloud formed briefly overhead from a burnoff near us here.
I see they are going crook about burn-offs this time of year especially in Waimate where the town was engulfed in burn-off smoke last Tuesday from a such burn-off which irrated some of the local residents
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Re: General March Weather
No it's not a tornado, Tornado. It's a pyrocumulus cloud caused by localized heat moving upwards into the colder air above forming a cumulus cloud.
Tornados are funnel clouds, this isn't.
Tornados are funnel clouds, this isn't.
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Re: General March Weather
i know. it reminded me of one though. i did not know pyrocumulus clouds existed
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Re: General March Weather
We had a sizeable one on the day the Chch fire escalated, there is a photo from above somewhere online.
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Re: General March Weather
It was clear skies here at 6am with a good view of the old Moon and Venus; now foggy, visibility maybe 100m.
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Re: General March Weather
Not much weather to comment on lately other than the daytime/nightime temperature range being >20C in many places. Must be a lot of heat stored in streets, concrete driveways and houses as seeing about 2-3C warmer overnight lows in town compared to just out of town rural.
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Re: General March Weather
big range at Woodbourne low of 6 yesterday with high of 32 and today 5 deg at 7am - here in central Blenheim though my station had lows of 8 and high of 30
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Re: General March Weather
Models are showing a moisture dump in the Bay of Plenty end of the week with possible thunderstorms.
Looks like Taranaki could get some decent precip as well.
Looks like Taranaki could get some decent precip as well.
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Re: General March Weather
Is that smoke over the Tasman on this morning's satellite image?
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