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A surprisingly cool afternoon here - 15-16C since 1pm with patches of light rain.

A mild 15deg this morning here with a NW that started up about mid day Sunday

Nice warm 27C here in Rangiora with a light northerly, just magic for April so who's really worried about the boring weather.

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melja wrote:Nice warm 27C here in Rangiora with a light northerly, just magic for April so who's really worried about the boring weather.

I am.
NW here with some high cloud.

I for one am loving this glorious weather. What a day out there today. Moaners begone!

For me the longer any cold weather can hold off the better, hopefully an interesting Winter on the way but warm interesting not cold.

I'm visiting a wet Milford Sound today, plenty of water cascading off the Mnts, photo.
Visiting Doubtful Sound tomorrow in hopefully brighter conditions.

conditions like that at Milford Sound has its own beauty

Amazing place Milford Sound, ive being there twice, first time during a heavy rain event and the other on a day of clear sky and hadn't rained for two weeks.

Looks like there could be a thunderstorm or two along the west of the North Island tomorrow pm. Lapse rates of 6.6C and surface dps of 17C suggest a chance. The front will be over Auckland in the evening.

Richard wrote:Amazing place Milford Sound, ive being there twice, first time during a heavy rain event and the other on a day of clear sky and hadn't rained for two weeks.

Been there several times and saw nothing more than drizzle - several glorious days though.

could do with a bit more rain
(parts of the Waikato still need rain)

Wetter out this way - 12.5mm here yesterday arvo.

I'm guessing Whangaparaoa got around 25mm for the 24 hrs to 9am this morn (20.6mm + 1 hr's missing data to 2pm yesterday), compared to 0.6mm at Akld Aero.

Can see cb to SSW. Isol storm over Taranaki as well.

I see the showers in the tasman way to the west are lightning active, under that exit area of the Jet Stream...
and they are moving this way...hummmm

Manukau heads obs wrote:could do with a bit more rain
(parts of the Waikato still need rain)

Heavy horizontal rain in Hamilton city centre right now. First since Friday lunchtime.

Richard wrote:Amazing place Milford Sound, ive being there twice, first time during a heavy rain event and the other on a day of clear sky and hadn't rained for two weeks.

An impressive place on a wet day with the hundreds of waterfalls.
Visited Doubtful Sound today which is even more impressive than Milford Sound I think, stunning scenery. Weather today was cold with a sunshine/ isolated shower mix and light snow about the higher Mnt tops.

I see a line of heavy showers/ thunderstorms is showing up on the radar west of Waikato /Auckland currently

spwill wrote:I see a line of heavy showers/ thunderstorms is showing up on the radar west of Waikato /Auckland currently

Yup, sitting along Kawhia and it has sat there for 2 hours now, remaining stationary.

Some pritty good flashing going on to the WSW atm nice.....

Good overshooting top on the CB out to sea, illuminated by the Lightning

bring it down here to liven up the weather here please

I've only been able to see flashes to the west. The more frequent ones to the SW are hidden by cloud that is illuminated by the Hamilton city lights.


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Wikis flashes going off now. Lighting up the entire sky.

And just heard my first deep distant rumble. Awesome. About time we had some weather worth talking about.

Yea the flashes are really good, they light up everything Heard some Thunder as well....

6mm yesterday with a cool day but at 3am before the SW came through it was a very strong NW and 19C.

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