So the fine weather continues colder starts but late teen to early 20 maximums .
I was looking west yesterday towards the Alps and thought this must be the first time in ages that there hasnt been any snow on them hills at this time of the year.
Normally by now we would have had a few good cold snaps come up bringing snow to low levels, but this warm dry weather just wont budge.
However with the entrance of this low system early week coming for the country might signal the start to a colder W-SW flow.
It looks like from around the 15th and into the weekend a cold unstable flow becomes established over the South Island which could well bring snow to low levels especailly in the far south.
According to metvuw Wednedsays still best day,NW in B.O.P and westerly behind,perhaps some NW shear(though not overly NW at this stage) there seems to give them the storms.
The past 2 days report the following... Tn=0C Tx=21-21C .. Visibilty has been better than excellent ... The stars at night have been vivid with the upper winds mostly light..
Steve
Upper Hutt......
We've had clear nights since the AA, becoming more brighter since then but then no more AA.
It would be observed in many inland areas as well as Tekapo, I would imagine.
ECMWF shows a period of rain tues/wed and dry north of waikato right to the end of the run now.Honestly we hardly had much precipitation since about october as far as "all day rain" is concerned here.
Michael wrote:ECMWF shows a period of rain tues/wed and dry north of waikato right to the end of the run now.Honestly we hardly had much precipitation since about october as far as "all day rain" is concerned here.
Except for Fiordland, there hasn't been much rain, anywhere lately.
Why is it that on Mikes Rangiora Weather it says that it reached a high of 28.3 at 2.05pm and that also melja recons it was 26.2 but only 24C was reported to have been NZ's high on TV1,i thought MS had a recording station in Rangiora. http://www.broadcastmedia.co.nz/weather/rangiora/
Richard wrote:Why is it that on Mikes Rangiora Weather it says that it reached a high of 28.3 at 2.05pm and that also melja recons it was 26.2 but only 24C was reported to have been NZ's high on TV1,i thought MS had a recording station in Rangiora. http://www.broadcastmedia.co.nz/weather/rangiora/
Good point since Rangiora is where NZ's maximum temperature belongs to.
I think Rangiora's temperatures have been discussed somewhere else on this forum?
Probably in the "Feb 7th" topic or one of the summer posts during the hotspells.
NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:
Good point since Rangiora is where NZ's maximum temperature belongs to.
I think Rangiora's temperatures have been discussed somewhere else on this forum?
The sun was rather warm in Kaiapoi around 5pm with little to no wind, no NWer though but you could tell it was NW inland.
Looks like an interesting week ahead warm start and a cold finish, classic thunder and hail set up late Thursday afternoon/evening for Canterbury .
I also seen MS are predicting 300-400mm of rain for the Fiordland area up until late Tuesday night, thats alot of rain .
Richard wrote:Why is it that on Mikes Rangiora Weather it says that it reached a high of 28.3 at 2.05pm and that also melja recons it was 26.2 but only 24C was reported to have been NZ's high on TV1,i thought MS had a recording station in Rangiora. http://www.broadcastmedia.co.nz/weather/rangiora/
This was discussed several weeks ago.
Mikes Rangiora Weather usually reads much higher than any other WS in the area, so I would tend to discount it. This seemingly more reliable Rangiora township PWS had around 21C at about 2pm yesterday and a high of 24.8C at about 6pm, while this (perhaps less reliable) Rangiora Airfield PWS, about 5 km WNW of the town, had around 23C at about 2pm and a high of 25.7C about 4:30pm.
I'm not sure that MetService have a site in Rangiora, but there's a NIWA station on the SSW outskirts of the township; don't have data yet, but I'd be surprised if it was more than 25C yesterday.
Thanks Nev,Mikes Rangiora Weather is now deleted from my links,i'm now wondering if the temperature gauge/clock in the main street uses Mikes Rangiora Weather readings as it often shows some ridiculous temps at times
The one in the main street has a sensor but all the black road in the area makes this a **** station when the sun is out .
I use this one http://www.dwight.co.nz/ it is a good davis vantage pro station and it seems about only a deg out from mine most of the time.
I can tell you that it was much much hotter than it was in chch on sunday.
colder starts but late teen to early 20 maximums 
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