The opposite has happened here in CHCH. In the last 15 minutes the wind has really picked up, gusting to or near gale at times now. Clear blue sky to the east and dirty looking cloud to the west. Brief, very brief rain hit last night, looks like North Canterbury getting a brief spell of what shows up as rather heavy on the radar.
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Leighton Thomas
Maximum gust at Jeff's station (which you are so oft to quote as conditions in CHCH...) only show a max gust of 38 km/h...and on the Beaufort, that's a 'strong breeze'...hardly a 'near gale' (50-61 km/h)
Maximum gust at Jeff's station (which you are so oft to quote as conditions in CHCH...) only show a max gust of 38 km/h...and on the Beaufort, that's a 'strong breeze'...hardly a 'near gale' (50-61 km/h)
I was actually referring to City weather station. CCC one. Even although thats sometimes dodgy it was showing 67km/h NW earlier on. Anyways in Wellington very stormy this morning according to the radio.
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Leighton Thomas
I see Le Bons Bay, on Banks Peninsula reported NW mean-winds of 76 km/h at 6am - down to 57 km/h at 9am. Winds still up around 72 km/hr on the Port Hills (Sugarloaf) though.
And yes, at 4am Wgtn Aero reported N'erly winds of at least 74 km/h, gusting to 117 km/h - eased somewhat now.
Got a bit of a hammering early in the morning with some pretty big gusts of wind and caused the power to go off as a pine tree had fallen on to some power lines just down the road. I stayed up all through the early hours of the morning watching all the action. Around 5am there were some brief heavy falls with some frequent lightning flashes I saw at lest 20 flashes after that it all eased off as the front had passed.
at first I thought we were going to miss the main rain bands, but a big lot developed as it moved onto us
14mm here from that
temperature has dropped from 17C to 13.5C now
That was a surprisingly weak front, broke into little pieces as it moved onto land....just 0.3mm rain...at least its warm, 17° here after peaking at 21° earlier
Thanks for the reports guys. These threads seem to have become a bit tangled, but those reports tie in quite nicely. Shame MetVUW don't archive the New Plymouth radar images, but in the Wgtn 6am radar image (same time as reported tornado) you can just see the front about to scrape Opunake.
Overnight lows of -1.3ºC -1.5ºC and -3.5ºC for the 3 Tokoroa stations on the net. A clear sky and very light SSE winds.
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Not too sure about Auckland but the Waikato is getting 1 of those very low DP days again.
Id say another frost on the cards if skies stay clear, and wind slows down.
Shallow CB passing to the south of Auckland with beautiful structure and what looks to be a very-well defined hail core. Here's some pics Any thoughts?
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Looks like another cold night tonight, low humidity and temperature and mainly clear out there.
good frosts inland I would say 2 nite
as the wind is dropping right away here on the west coast, and its only 8.5C now
the 24 hours to 9am tomorrow morning are going to be even colder
heading for the coldest may for many years
Manukau heads observer wrote:as the wind is dropping right away here on the west coast, and its only 8.5C now
I've always wondered why the temperature falls away so quickly in the evening in your area, 9.6° and falling steadily here but on clearer nights your overall low is a little higher than a lot of other areas (even Grey Lynn last night). If it stays clear all night I would expect 2° here again tomorrow morning