Fine day finally

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Thu 10/06/2004 22:27

Must've been localised shower activity around Chch about 6PM. I was inside then, but surely I would've noticed anything of significance. BTW some cloud has returned, but doesn't look like producing anything at present.

Manukau heads obs · Fri 11/06/2004 09:37

scattered CB and shower activity around here this morning....from the weak trough line that has moved up the country, right through the middle of the high
I saw one cb tops to the NW of us here this morning that looked quite impressive!

Manukau heads obs · Fri 11/06/2004 10:35

picture of a CB in the middle of a large high pressure system! (1027hpa here at the moment)

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Fri 11/06/2004 12:17

Quite horrible and showery and cold here

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Fri 11/06/2004 15:30

Michael wrote:Quite horrible and showery and cold here

Not a cloud to be seen anywhere all day down here. You really are living in the wrong place I think, Michael!

Andy · Unread post by **Andy** » Fri 11/06/2004 17:10

Gary Roberts wrote: ]Not a cloud to be seen anywhere all day down here.

A good frost again this morning (-3 air temp) but then we were blessed with some fog till lunch time, then some sun now back to the fog..
hehe

Temp at the mo 3 degrees

Manukau heads obs · Fri 11/06/2004 17:27

its not as bad as michael makes out in the winterless north
15oC high here today, went with the kids to the beach after school and had a great time in the late afternoon sun

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Fri 11/06/2004 17:35

Andy wrote:A good frost again this morning (-3 air temp) but then we were blessed with some fog till lunch time, then some sun now back to the fog..
hehe

Temp at the mo 3 degrees

Very cold on the mountain overnight but we only got to -1.7Â° at 09:06 this morning in Omarama, and it's 5Â° there right now...still, at least it was a beautiful day, and I did get to laugh hysterically as I watched some kids skidding their bikes in the big ice patch behind the Caltex workshop! Very entertaining. Like the Icecapades, only without the boring dancing and stuff.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Fri 11/06/2004 23:13

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:
tich wrote: What - a shower in Chch. Not in the central city. Clear skies here and heading towards another frost.
I notice today's radar showing a bit of shower activity out on the peninsula though.
Yes, Ben, I recorded a shower about 6pm with 0.3mm in my rain-gauge.
Interesting skies this afternoon. Looked quite thundery, which would impossible as we are under anticyclonic conditions at the moment.
Possibly an upper level trough scenario???

JohnGaul
NZTS

Today's anticyclonic thunderstorms in the North Island were possibly the same upper level trough that brought us the thundery looking skies here yesterday with a short shower, plus the shower activity off the coast.

JohnGaul
NZTS

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Sat 26/06/2004 09:44

At Last

A sunny day in over a week Just when they tell us a weak front is moving on the country followed by an active one tomorrow.
The media had been telling us since Tues Night a high is bringing welcome weather

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Sat 26/06/2004 11:50

Michael wrote:At Last A sunny day in over a week Just when they tell us a weak front is moving on the country followed by an active one tomorrow.
The media had been telling us since Tues Night a high is bringing welcome weather

Absolutely MAGIC day down here! Is it fine all over the country then?

Andy · Unread post by **Andy** » Sat 26/06/2004 11:56

Nice blue dome day here to, with the mountains looking beautiful

Temp 10.3 almost feels like spring, not even a frost this morning

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Sat 26/06/2004 12:15

It must be if its sunny in Ak

I suppose Wellington will have a blustery CLOUDY N-NW (the weather they used to get as much as our SW)

Gary Roberts wrote: Absolutely MAGIC day down here! Is it fine all over the country then?

Thunder · Unread post by **Thunder** » Sat 26/06/2004 14:09

Nice day here to with little to no wind, if anything it's a very lite NE. The sky is clear, apart from a little cloud offshore. There was a little bit more cloud about this morning.

Nice day for a thunderstorm if the temp doesn't drop and the pressure lowers a bit which it is currently doing, oh.....and a southerly comes through. But I don't think I'm that lucky. Dew point would also have to up a bit (6.0 C at present).

The tropopasue looks to be at about 8500 / 9000m so it's high enough but things only look to be unstable (and that's only marginally unstable at that) to about 1500 / 2000m and above that it's all stable. Am I right Steven W! This is for here in Chch.

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Sat 26/06/2004 14:34

As far as people like me Chch has a better climate than Auckland as far as settled weather is concerned but its one of those 1 in 30 days type of day here today

Aaron J Wilkinson wrote:Nice day here to with little to no wind, if anything it's a very lite NE. The sky is clear, apart from a little cloud offshore. There was a little bit more cloud about this morning.

Nice day for a thunderstorm if the temp doesn't drop and the pressure lowers a bit which it is currently doing, oh.....and a southerly comes through. But I don't think I'm that lucky. Dew point would also have to up a bit (6.0 C at present).

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Sat 26/06/2004 15:30

Michael wrote:As far as people like me Chch has a better climate than Auckland as far as settled weather is concerned...

That's a maritime climate for ya! But then the whole country has one of those I guess.

Auckland really does have the most damp and unsettled marine climate I've experienced.

Down here you hardly ever see those huge great Cb clouds floating by like some great fluffy white armada as you do most days up there.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sat 26/06/2004 15:31

Aaron, three conditions need to be met for a thunderstorm

1 Unstable lapse rate
2 Moisture
3 trigger(forcing)

Looking at todays conditions at Christchurch,

500hpa temp -25C. Thats a fair sign of potential unstable lapse rate.
Dewpoint 6C. Thats a good sign of stability. Too dry.
Trigger. There is't one.

That -25C 500hpa would be a strong indicator of thunder down your way in December.

The Tasman sea over the next day or so will be a good place for thunderstorm development. Upper air is quite cold(unstable lapse rate)
very moist air is moving in from subtropics, dewpoints 16C(moisture)
and an active frontal trough moving in (forcing).

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sat 26/06/2004 15:36

In my opinion Auckland has one of the better climates in NZ. I base that on the following

Reliable rainfall (keeps the garden Green)

Very mild winters are the norm (I hate the frost)

Reasonable sunshine (over 2000hrs annually) $\:D/$

As far as people like me Chch has a better climate than Auckland

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Sat 26/06/2004 15:43

For me whats not good is

SW weather as it brings Gales and Rain/showers and they go on and on sometimes for days.

The constant rain

Not so hot summers

NZstorm wrote:In my opinion Auckland has one of the better climates in NZ. I base that on the following

Reliable rainfall (keeps the garden Green)
Very mild winters are the norm (I hate the frost)
Reasonable sunshine (over 2000hrs annually) $\:D/$

As far as people like me Chch has a better climate than Auckland

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Sat 26/06/2004 15:44

NZstorm wrote:In my opinion Auckland has one of the better climates in NZ. I base that on the following

Reliable rainfall (keeps the garden Green)
Very mild winters are the norm (I hate the frost)
Reasonable sunshine (over 2000hrs annually) $\:D/$

Auckland is a beautiful place in many ways. But the weather used to annoy me! It was hardly ever just one thing!

One minute rain, the next sun, with wind, then the wind would die down and it would start raining, or the sun would be out and beautiful and fine, then just as you're settling into the deck chair a cool breeze would blow in more rain!

Come on! There's ALWAYS room for a good frost! What's life without icicles and snow?!

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Sat 26/06/2004 15:57

What we need is the southern alps 100k or so in the tasman off the westcoast to make the west and SW winds dry

Gary Roberts wrote:
NZstorm wrote:In my opinion Auckland has one of the better climates in NZ. I base that on the following

Auckland is a beautiful place in many ways. But the weather used to annoy me! It was hardly ever just one thing!

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sat 26/06/2004 16:47

What we need is the southern alps 100k or so in the tasman off the westcoast to make the west and SW winds dry

Yes, a mountain range to the southwest to stop the spring southwesterlies would have been good. But I like the rain.

Thunder · Unread post by **Thunder** » Mon 28/06/2004 09:25

Thanks Steven, it's good to get back to the basics. I figured the other day nothing was going to happen, I was trying to be technical, reading charts and stuff then putting my figures on the forum.

I'll remember those pointers!

Dean. · Unread post by **Dean.** » Tue 29/06/2004 20:42

Another fine day (yawn).
Ashburton the maximum temperature in NZ two days in a row in June hahaha.
Not often we get a suntan in June.
Bring on some storms.
Cheers.

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Tue 29/06/2004 21:17

I'll see whether we can use this thread again in the next month We maybe lucky to get one before the 31st July

Ous suntan is from rolling in the mud

Deano wrote:Another fine day (yawn).
Ashburton the maximum temperature in NZ two days in a row in June hahaha.
Not often we get a suntan in June.
Bring on some storms.
Cheers.