General May Weather

[DT-NZ]

You're all nuts!

What!!!

[Michael]

The pine trees are so old/large and unclimable they cant be trimmed....as for the yellow twiggy thing and other deciduous trees atleast only a few months,cant wait for the NW wind to blow them back,unfortunately little gradient,the worst is about september with the male pine fruits ie theyre millions of little cm sized things,blow any sort of willynilly wind and when dry they crush into a mess.4 hours of "proper" SW wind means weeks of effect.Anyway back to may weather 1mm? fell,straight easterly still,17c.

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 .

[melja]

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.

Had a weekend just been at arthurs pass and no snow to be seen apart from a small amount of permanent snow up the head of the waimak valley but no this seasons snow on the main range at all.

[Chris Raine]

Foggy in Oamaru this morning, 3kt NE and 5.4 degrees . Need some rain only had 0.9mm so far this month and 103.9 mm to 30th April since 1 Jan.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Clear morning here with some cloudy periods blowing through the sky at a rate of knots! The NE is rather strong this morning. Latest GFS run has more precipitation for CHCH now, but this is on the backend of the system in a more S to SE flow. Showing 60mm at the moment. Shall see what happens cause boy is it needed!!

[melja]

No wind out here north of the waimak, very light .

[Andrew Massie]

The pine trees are so old/large and unclimable they cant be trimmed....as for the yellow twiggy thing and other deciduous trees atleast only a few months,cant wait for the NW wind to blow them back,unfortunately little gradient,the worst is about september with the male pine fruits ie theyre millions of little cm sized things,blow any sort of willynilly wind and when dry they crush into a mess.4 hours of "proper" SW wind means weeks of effect.Anyway back to may weather 1mm? fell,straight easterly still,17c.

Don't you like the avatar I made for you? I'll remove if you want..

[Michael]

Yes Andrew have added it now thanks.

[Andrew Massie]

Yes Andrew have added it now thanks.

You're welcome!

Anybody else want one?!!

[Lukemyster]

Haha choice!

Not too long to Christchurch hits 5C above mean, and mean maximum!!!

[DT-NZ]

Yes Andrew have added it now thanks.

You're welcome!

Anybody else want one?!!

YUP!!! something like erm.... tired of talking about droughts!!! summin like tha btw love Michaels gif... was wanting to say something about this morning when I logged on re: winds up here ... but, the internet was slow!!!! grrrrrrrrr.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Sorry off topic here but
I like Michaels' avatar? Is it from the movie?
I see the director of the film is now Britain' s new Prime Minister or is it his brother, ?
I'm confused

JohnGaul
NZThS

[David]

Hasn't really got anything to do with the low pressure system, so will post here. Nice long contrail stretching across the sky tonight in Auckland

EDIT: I was wrong about this, when I went outside the next night I saw the same thing. I think it's a strong beam of light coming from somewhere, pointing at an upwards angle....very odd

[Richard]

Yes Andrew have added it now thanks.

You're welcome!

Anybody else want one?!!

Yes please Andrew getting rather sick of my self portrait now, lol.

PM on its way

[Razor]

25 degrees here in ChCh yesterday, just marvellous. Will summer ever end?

[spwill]

Interesting to compare May this year with May last year , Christchurch Airport had an average max of just 11.2C, Auckland Airport average max only 15.8C.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

. Will summer ever end?

Yes.

JohnGaul
NZThS

[Captain Salty]

at least winter won't seem as long. i normally think of autumn as dull and grey

[mattyj46]

Thick fog once again rolled into Invercargill, rolled in about 40 mins ago, quickly got more dense.

[Richard]

at least winter won't seem as long. i normally think of autumn as dull and grey

I agree C S ,i was saying that to someone the other day,but this also this time last year the ski season opened,though only temporarily.
Last May i had 22 frosts for the month ,so far this May only 5

[Captain Salty]

was at the rugby. mild until half time. breeze picked up, temp dived and then fog started to drop down on us. lasted about 30 min. not the pea souper they had a few years ago though

[Michael]

Wouldnt be surprised if be saying this october,be cooler than may...

. Will summer ever end?

Yes.

JohnGaul
NZThS

[RWood]

Wouldnt be surprised if be saying this october,be cooler than may

If a La Nina event is underway by then, that could upset such ideas. Incidentally, at Kaitaia the mean May temp. is the same as that for October - but it has NZ's most extreme temperature latency among the towns.

[mikestormchaser]

Yes Andrew have added it now thanks.

You're welcome!

Anybody else want one?!!

I wouldnt mind one Andrew, that be good, put bit of attidude into my pic yeaah!

[Richard]

Hopefully a good sign, there's drizzle now falling receiving the first rain in six weeks