General January Weather

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Temp now only hovering around 9 or 10C and heavy drizzle has been wafting through the eastern parts of christchurch all day.

Your lucky there, Mike. We've only had light drizzle out here

JohnGaul
NZThS

[Tornado Tim]

A nice heavy shower passed through, peaking at 44mm/hr! 2.6mm have fallen in total.
The NZWN (http://www.nzweather.net/nzwn.html) picked up a interesting trend with the showers falling in Tokoroa about 2 hours prior to arrival in Matangi.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Here's proof that we have the fire going tonight.
Dorothy the cat is sitting on the arm of the armchair.

JohnGaul
NZThS

[mikestormchaser]

Yeah not the warmest of nights for winter John i had thought about hitting town tonight but its put me right off.
Nice to see the fire going and the cat enjoying some heat! lol

[melja]

Bit of a reverse NW happening on the coast with hokitika on 21C and a foehn effect SE, nice change for them i bet.

[jamie]

A nice heavy shower passed through, peaking at 44mm/hr! 2.6mm have fallen in total.
The NZWN (http://www.nzweather.net/nzwn.html) picked up a interesting trend with the showers falling in Tokoroa about 2 hours prior to arrival in Matangi.

you got rain yesterday? wish we got some. i could see light showers about the place but nothing was remotely close to us.

[Nev]

Drizzle here atm - currently 18.6C after 15.8C at 4:20am this morn.

[Nev]

I see Wgtn Aero recorded what looks like its 2nd lowest ever Jan T-max of 13.3C yesterday and Kelburn its 3rd lowest Jan T-max of 11.9C.

[Lukemyster]

Here's proof that we have the fire going tonight.
Dorothy the cat is sitting on the arm of the armchair.

JohnGaul
NZThS

Harden up

[GraemeWi]

It hit 30.6 here today at my location in Henderson... man it was hot!

[David]

High of 23 for me today. Felt nice compared to the last 2 days

[Michael]

We must had the convergence no wind overcast even rained enough to wet the ground.

[spwill]

Just a few hours sunshine here today, quite humid, dewpoints around 17C, max 23C, will be a warm night with the cloud cover.

[Dale]

Today was just downright lovely! Overcast most of the day with some light drizzle about, not enough to put off mowing the cracks and dirt or put out some washing, Fri. & Sat. however was just plain burnies in the direct sun but a welcome relief from a rather mediocre summer as far.
Nice short sharp heavy shower over Paerata just under an hour ago, was doing some grocery shopping at the time but there was a lot of surface water lying about on way home so whatever it was that came over unloaded in a big way.

Further showers tonight/tomorrow morning with a projected max of 26 could see some really pissed off people complaining about humidity. I wont be one of them

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

I think the drizzle is on the way out and it should be just a cloudy day tomorrow, here.
The temperature may rise to about 19C, which is really hot here, so far. I don't know how I can face the heat?

JohnGaul
NZThS

[NZstorm]

The frontal system mid week looks like moving only slowly across the country so should give many places a reasonable spell of rain including Northland.

[Michael]

Usually they (fronts and lows associated with southern parent lows) and cyclogenis ones move fast in (to the SE)January,noticed that in most summers,complex ones slower like 1988-89.

[DT-NZ]

The frontal system mid week looks like moving only slowly across the country so should give many places a reasonable spell of rain including Northland.

The dry continues throughout FN and inland MN region's out on the east.

Locals from these area's are now calling the big dry conditions a drought.

[Tornado Tim]

surprisingly i got 6.0mm of rain from this drizzle that started at 5 AM, LOL

[Razor]

Weather over the weekend was fine in Pelorus Sound and then yesterday through Molesworth was simply fantastic. Some drizzle at Hanmer and a brief shower up the Awatere otherwise sunny the whole way

[David]

Dryness continuing here too. So bored of it
Got a low of 18 here last night, warm but wasn't too bad I thought.

[Weetbicks]

Dryness continuing here too. So bored of it
Got a low of 18 here last night, warm but wasn't too bad I thought.

I'll trade you for Christchurch's weather recently

[jamie]

continuous drizzle here as tim said and its starting to mount up a bit . up to nearly 6mm now.

dry conditions here are just now starting to show in farmers decisions. many are quickly going on once a day and lots of silage is being fed out.
my parents were up north for a holiday and said it looks terrible up there. much like the drought we had a few years ago where the maize only gets to fence height and the paddocks look like they are in the middle of having ground work done to them.

[DT-NZ]

A dry pic... taken yesterday.

Currently 28 C out... it's warming... starting to perspire abit now ( in shade ) every window and door is open.

[spwill]

Cloudy humid 24C, some towering Cu/ low top shower clouds around Ak, a dry day here, looking forward to rain later this week.