General May Weather

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Lovely day here. Fresh breeze with a cool crisp start this morning but warmed up nice today. Very pleasent 18 degrees out there with not a brathe of wind and very little cloud, if any. Still waiting to crack the 100mm mark for this year. 98.2mm. 1mm for the month, 0mm in my neck of the woods.

[DT-NZ]

Is it me? the BIRDS are flying east about 20mins ago a couple of shags flew past my window and they were flying east I don't usually see them flying past here often if ever, hmm.

Currently 19 C out and light drizzle.

[Richard]

Lovely day here as well,from a -4 frost to 22C at 3.00pm and with no wind all day.Still 45mm for the year so far but that looks to be about to change in the coming days

[David]

Forecast for strong easterlies here has still not come true....pity as my wind meter is well positioned for an easterly....

[DT-NZ]

a few pics

[Tornado Tim]

Time to split the thread?

[Michael]

Normally dont mind the easterly and strong too and after an 11 month lack of them typically arriving in May but better after the neighbors leaves have fallen as theyre blowing directly across,the chainsaw is tempting...anyway nice almost summerlike day here.

Forecast for strong easterlies here has still not come true....pity as my wind meter is well positioned for an easterly....

[Tornado Tim]

anyway nice almost summerlike day here.

Yes, I was back in my t-shirt and was feeling a little too hot in jeans.

High of 20.9°C here

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

There must of been a small low off BP today, as the wind flow turned southerly with a bit of a drop in temperature, this afternoon.
I noticed some low stratus moving north from the south to the east of here late afternoon.

JohnGaul
NZThS

[Nev]

Here's a few stats and comments about Northlands rain over the weekend...

'Drought not over despite weekend rain' - NRC

[Michael]

Hope this easterly soon goes NE as forecasted,Leaves are terrible all over the house,warm 20c.It does blow them off but replaced as quick Nieghbours trees not ours.Dont know where all this rain theyre talking about either.

[snowstormwatcher]

Fine here today after a frosty start -2 overnight high of 14 degrees looking like another good frost tonight if the cloud stays away.

[Captain Salty]

Hope this easterly soon goes NE as forecasted,Leaves are terrible all over the house,warm 20c.It does blow them off but replaced as quick Nieghbours trees not ours.Dont know where all this rain theyre talking about either.

I love how you're obsessed with leaves. you should start a thread on it

[DT-NZ]

The start of those rainbands are starting to pull through here now - light to moderate rain with some gusty winds.

[DT-NZ]

Hope this easterly soon goes NE as forecasted,Leaves are terrible all over the house,warm 20c.It does blow them off but replaced as quick Nieghbours trees not ours.Dont know where all this rain theyre talking about either.

I love how you're obsessed with leaves. you should start a thread on it

LEAF Michael alone (chuckle) anyway, I likes his leaves posts too... and, he does have a leaf thread over on his weather blog

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

...and also it is Autumn now, so leaves will be a plenty, so leave Michael alone with his leaves, pine needles or what ever other rubbish may come along
If you don't like it just "leave"

JohnGaul
NZThS

[Philip Duncan]

You're all nuts!

[Captain Salty]

i hear MS has been trying to develop a leaf gauge for years

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

You're all nuts!

No Phil, Leaves

JohnGaul
NZThS

[David]

Just be glad you haven't got as many leaves as Symonds street (central Auckland) at the moment Michael!

[tich]

I saw a photo of Mt Taranaki on TV1 Weather tonight, taken yesterday. The mountain was still snowless, probably very unusual for this time of year. (but not surprising as New Plymouth got up to 22C) The Alps visible from Chch also still have no white blanket.
Sharp contrast to this time last year, when cold southerlies were lashing the country with heavy snow on the mountains, and hail in many lower places. (today's the 1st anniversary of the big Mt Maunganui/Papamoa hailstorm)

[Dean.]

No snow at all around the Canterbury foothills,I climbed to over 1800 metres today in behind Springfield and the only snow I saw was on the main divide in the distance.
May change by next Monday/Tuesday with a SE flow hopefully developing.

[Andrew Massie]

You all know how I LOVE my animated .gif images....

I made this JUST for Michael's avatar!!!

Michael.gif

[Storm Struck]

Good one Andrew .
I can just imagine Michaels back yard all clean no leaves to be seen, but you have to ask yourself Mike how well do you know your neighbours? .
One evening with a gale SW blowing and two bags full of leaves emptied over the fence= PRICELESS .

[DT-NZ]

Strong winds up here at the moment - blowing a gale - the aeonium arboreum var. atropurpureum 'Schwarzkof' aka uncle bob has toppled over out on the deck.