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I read that Wellington Airport has been fog bound today... good call at the beginning of this thread Foggy :)
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ricky wrote:I read that Wellington Airport has been fog bound today... good call at the beginning of this thread Foggy :)
A lot more flights have been arriving/departing Palmerston North airport, this morning, as a result of that fog around Wellington.

Temperature has got up to 29.8C around 2pm today in the city. Just cooling a little bit now as more cloud moves in from the N/NW.
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Titirangi, Humid and damp on the North West side. temp 25°C 80% RH
Had some drizzle showers about 1 hour ago. morning was dry.
Good for the garden.

( Last night was warm in Albany, Oteha Valley, where i had to do a job for the powerboard. some fine drizzle ± 19°C. at 02.00hrs )

But nothing like the actual rain forecasted.
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Paul you are obviously with the MS? can i ask the reason for putting a moderate risk tomorrow thunderwise for canterbury?.
Interesting between the 3-4pm radars there has been a big change in the two with the latest at 4pm showing heavy rain in south canterbury.
Been having the odd breif spit shower come through in the last hour with some large drops in them.
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I see a thunderstorm has formed in the past 30mins in the Kaipara area but just off shore. ;)
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Also a weak thunderstorm showing up over inland Otago. Perhaps its on that warm front down that way.
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jason, yes, paul is with the metservice and the severe weather/thundetsorm prediction team
its good to see him here from time to time
i am surprised you have not picked up on that fact before now :shock: ;)
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I sorta knew but didn't want to make an idiot of myself if he wasn't so I thought I would ask :lol: :lol: .
This rain sure is strange today we have had a few breif spit showers about 4pm then dry up until about 7:30pm when there was a more significant shower that lasted 10 minutes but now dry again 8) .
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steady rain here in the jaffa bowl for the last hour. Nothing spectalar at this stage though
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Looking very warm tomorrow.

Dewpoints have crept down on last night.. 20/17C at present.
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0100 - Just been for a glorious late night/early morning swim - the pool was so warm. Heavy rain again - geesh its so damn muggy!
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@ 0300 - 18.8°C with a dewpoint depression of 0.6°C, light misty drizzle

@ 0750 - 19.4°C with 19°C dewpoint....
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a usefull 13mm here overnight :)
(i new it was not over!)
maybe heat showers/convergence showers today?
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Pinehaven Upper Hutt - Temp 17.2c with a DP of 16.7C. 97% Humidity and misty light rain..... looks like a rainforest up here in the hills!

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At the moment:

Temperature 15.8 °C
Dewpoint 14.3 °C

Fog over night in Christchurch, misty outside at present.
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a usefull 13mm here overnight
(i new it was not over!)
maybe heat showers/convergence showers today?
Likely to be some afternoon showers again today but I would like to see the NZWP000Z upper air to see how the overnight wind change has modified the sounding. I would say its likely more stable with an inversion there now so any showers coming out of low topped cu buildups.

Yes, was some localised heavy rainfall around last night. I notice Mercer had 30mm in a short space of time.
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15 mm of rain here in Tawa since 3 this morning.
Brings the month to date to 46 mm.

With the arrival of the rain, the temperature has coasted down slightly (1 degree) from 19.3 at 3:21 a.m.
Temperature and dewpoint tracking along at almost identical values.
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This has fired up in the last half hour,South East of me.
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Here's a photo of some Cj from Napier a couple of days ago I found on another forum...
(Sorry it's so big but it's worth it!)
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Very nice photo's there. :D

Sunny :D 24C here, dewpoints still 20C at Greylynn, 17C at the Airport.
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Whats Cj foggy?? ;) Good find!

Nice pics there Achten!
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Yes, nice phtos there!

NZWP0000Z sounding shows the atmosphere fairly well capped here at 1000m, hence just some small cu about today despite the warm humid conditions.
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Here are some pics of a Cb in Hawkes Bay today where the temperatures are around 30 degrees. This one was just south of Hastings.
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Excellent photos there borris89. Looking at the satellite that cb fair rocketed out to sea once it had developed. Must have formed on a developing westerly. I see at 5pm Napier Airport metar had temp 32C.
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a decent CB did appear over northland....waipoa forest area?, around 5pmish...lastest for an hour....
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