General March Weather

[DT-NZ]

A link to ABC News NZ's north suffers worst drought in 60 years article and video footage.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

High was meant to be 20 here today but 24 degrees with a westerly breeze. Hardly a cloud in the sky. Should be nice tomorrow. Hoping the front comes through later on Saturday as it is the final weekend of cricket. Latest run shows it more an afternoon event than morning now for here so here hoping!! Not looking good for the far north as the next few days sees a high dominating the weather in the far north. Off to Westport Good Friday, hoping for some heavy west coast rain. The relations said that there tank was empty 3 days ago and now it is full. Good news for them over there. Anyways seems to be some uncertainty in the tasman sea later next week so will keep an eye on proceedings!

[David]

We got 12mm of rain here, YTD total finally reached 100mm. Unfortunately it looks anticyclonic for the rest of month

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

We got 12mm of rain here, YTD total finally reached 100mm. Unfortunately it looks anticyclonic for the rest of month

Very Similar here with 102mm to date this year. January with 64mm, February with 20mm March 18mm to date.

[NZstorm]

'NZ's north suffers worst drought in 60 years,' s

Back in 1993 Auckland just about ran out of water. No body warned Aucklanders to stop using water until the taps were just on dry. Fortunately with this drought the reservoirs are being better managed and theres no water shortage. The heavy rain last night was a reminder that winter is not too far off and I'm sure it won't belong before Northland is getting a soaking. With El Nino persisting I'm picking rainfall to crank up by late April. A wetter than normal start to winter is on the cards.

[Manukau heads obs]

what we need is to get into a regular pattern of lows forming in the tasman and moving across the NI
that will be the ticket

[tgsnoopy]

what we need is to get into a regular pattern of lows forming in the tasman and moving across the NI
that will be the ticket

Only if some instability is thrown into the mix. I want some thunderstorms please.

[Michael]

If I am correct wasnt it 94?
Remember it well.

'NZ's north suffers worst drought in 60 years,' s

Back in 1993 Auckland just about ran out of water.

[RWood]

It was 1994. Back in 1943 things got pretty dire by May even though the rainfall was not exceptionally low (though on the low side for a few months).

[melja]

Much warmer out here in rangiora this arvo/evening than Chch, still 26.5c with it being 29.3c at 5.30pm but i see chch is only on 20c.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Hot day down the east coast of the South Island.
31C in Timaru and 30C in Oamaru and Ashburton.
It was 29.4C here, maximum.
I wonder if any other places had temperatures as warm?

JohnGaul
NZThS

[snowstormwatcher]

High of 26 degrees here 19 degrees at 7am this morning.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Got to 28 degrees today in my Part of Christchurch. Nice warm day

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Just been looking at the lastest model runs through and it looks as if Wednesday afternoon through to Friday could be quite wet here in Christchurch and Canterbury with some heavy prolonged falls possible. Something out of the blue it must be said but something to keep a watch on at the same time. May be the fall of rain we need to turn the lawns from brown to green around the city.

[melja]

Just water them
I also see on those runs that its dam cold too, temps around 6C during the rain.

[David]

Could be a big anticyclone crossing the Chathams in a few days with rather high central pressure:

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Dosen't look all that wet from what I can see, just anticyclonic?

JohnGaul
NZThS

[Manukau heads obs]

GFS has a low moving north along the canty coast bringing in a wet cold southerly by the look for later in the week
ecmwf has that same system further east and moving out to the east faster

[melja]

Warm night in canterbury, 23C at 1:30am with a low of 19C which is ment to be todays high
Still 23C now at 6:30am and a windy NW.

[Captain Salty]

and MS has just revised our high down to 16C now lol

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Amazing difference in temperature at the moment. 23 degrees at the airport with a Westerly gusting to 52km/h. Here in Halswell it is 17 degrees with not a breathe of wind.

[melja]

Yeah there getting worse that lot, there temp forcaster needs the sack cause its so far off the mark most of the time and just changes it all day to match the current temp.

[DT-NZ]

17 degrees with not a breathe of wind.

Morning, same here.

[melja]

Haha done it allready, 19 to 16 and now back up to 23 all in an hour what a joke.

[snowstormwatcher]

Southerly and low cloud starting to develop here currently 13 degrees.