Wet weather starting 9th February

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

resulting in a total of 73.9mm for Palmerston North.

Could you send some of it down here please

JohnGaul
NZThS

[NZstorm]

Still looking very cold for friday for the south according to latest GFS but the intense trough will be too far off shore to give much weather with it. Forecast 850mb temp for Invercargill is still -4C on friday!

Should be a hot one over the north tomorrow given there will be more sunshine than we had today.

Yes, heaps of rain down there in Palmerston North. Looked like a slow moving narrow front on radar.

[Manukau heads obs]

sure hope we get better rain on thursday than we have had so far
real Facial Excema conditions now

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

resulting in a total of 73.9mm for Palmerston North.

Could you send some of it down here please

JohnGaul
NZThS

Looks like we will get some decent rain Thursday with a moderate confidence of heavy rain

[Myself]

Still looking very cold for friday for the south according to latest GFS but the intense trough will be too far off shore to give much weather with it. Forecast 850mb temp for Invercargill is still -4C on friday!

Could be a close run thing though. The low that causes it moves off very quickly, so subtle changes over the next few model runs may have a considerable effect on the severity of that cold blast.
The way the high ridges in behind though, I wonder if we may see some worryingly cold nights down there. The warm ground might hold off a frost, but if not....bad news for the viticulture in central Otago!

[Michael]

Some proper rain at last now,a long time since hearing puddles ...3-4 weeks ago?

[spwill]

Some proper rain at last now,a long time since hearing puddles ...3-4 weeks ago?

A change of weather pattern now, cool in the south and humid in the north, some rain/showers.

[NZstorm]

GFS is predicting around 45mm for Auckland late Thurs/early Friday.

[Manukau heads obs]

i think its looking good for good falls of rain
that cold SW change and the falling barometer over the tasmand with the developing trough will cool this airmass we have....meaning it has to rain out!

[David]

Gonna be very uncomfortable today, already 24.4C with 90% humidity and a fair bit of sunshine - perhaps 28C today if the sun stays out relatively frequently.

[spwill]

should be an interesting day for temperature over the North with the very high dewpoints combining with sunny spells. Already 26C at Greylynn, a very sultry day ahead.

[jamie]

well inside it is 27.4 with 37% humidity (aircon been running for over 24hours nonstop with house shutup) and that feels very cool compared to 23.9 with 82% humidity outside. Amazing how humidity makes 24 feel way hotter than 27.

[Manukau heads obs]

getting steamy here!
driking a hot coffee makes you come out in a sweat!

[David]

26.7C here already before 11am, DP a sultry 22.4C. Quite sunny here this morning. Just back from being out in central Howick - just walking down the street you can feel sweat forming over your skin!!

[Vertigo]

yes, i wouldnt mind if the cold change came through about now
need a downpour, thatd bring the temps down.

[David]

I feel like I'm on a tropical island! Under mostly sunny conditions, we now have 29.3C with a 22.8C dewpoint. I see Grey Lynn is under cloudy conditions so perhaps it won't stay sunny long enough here to hit the big 30 mark.

[Tornado Tim]

Looks like it is raining in Horsham-downs jamie.
Spitting here.

[David]

Seems to be some upper level convergence? Quite a bit of cloud to the west, clearer to the east, we are just over the boundary (which seems to be stationary) here in sunny conditions (all that cloud is stopping Grey Lynn getting past 28C). Temperature hit 29.8C at 1:16pm now 29.4C. Never felt such heat before!

[Manukau heads obs]

SW sea breeze here has kept the temperature below 25C,,, cloud building up...some light rain here now..

update: the sun came out for a while and we got up to 27.3C

[Razor]

HEAVY RAIN WARNING
CANTERBURY In the 12 to 15 hours from about 4am Thursday expect 70 to 90mm of rain near the eastern foothills, but the could be around 120mm in the headwaters from the Rangitata River to the Waimakariri. Note: there will probably be 60 to 70mm on Banks Peninsula and 30 to 50mm on the plains.

Fantastic news...among a host of warnings all round NZ. MUCH NEEDED!

First rain warning I can recall for Canterbury since maybe October?

[Nev]

getting steamy here!
driking a hot coffee makes you come out in a sweat!

That's not all it does - apparently it's also a 'diuretic'...

But yeah, 28.6°C / 23°C DP here - Yuk!
Only thin scattered cloud here, but some good cu building just to the S.

[Tornado Tim]

A storm is possibly developing where I am and It may go nuts as there are high Dps here 22°C to be exact.
Obviously some colder air aloft has come and made the air unstable.
Now the suns in full force making it explode...

[spwill]

Some T Cu around this afternoon but just small local showers have developed.

[jamie]

Well tonights milking was as bad as about 40 degrees in sydney even though it was only 29 here. Mind you it was probably a bit warmer in the shed but its a very new open shed so not too much warmer. I just had copious amounts of sweat running off me. Nice to walk into a cool dry house

[Manukau heads obs]

what I used to do on days like that is fill your gumboots up with water!