General January Weather

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Warm day here once the NW Arch cloud thinned and moved away to the north.
28.1C the max for today but I bet Riccarton got up to 33C

[Nev]

Mod note: I've created a new thread for the dust-devil(s) in Cromwell yesterday.

[Razor]

Warm day here once the NW Arch cloud thinned and moved away to the north.
28.1C the max for today but I bet Riccarton got up to 33C

It hit 30 at ChCh Aero, 31.9 at our place in Cracroft

Already 29 here this morning as at 9:30am!

[mikestormchaser]

Beautiful day in Canterbury today. Lovely and warm. Not much wind around atm. But that will probably change later. I'm thinking there could be a few heavy showers/thunderstorms up coastal Canterbury later on. Very coastal though! Ashburton up towards birdlings flat and BP

[03Stormchaser]

Could be right there mikey, will be quite late in the evening.

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[Richard]

Lovely and warm here too, but windy with the odd huge gust every so often.

[Orion]

Wind changed to southerly here about an hour ago and temp. has dropped several degrees, still pleasant though

[David]

Warmest day of the summer so far in Howick - max of 26.8C this afternoon

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Beautiful day in Canterbury today. Lovely and warm. Not much wind around atm. But that will probably change later. I'm thinking there could be a few heavy showers/thunderstorms up coastal Canterbury later on. Very coastal though! Ashburton up towards birdlings flat and BP

I was thinking that, earlier, with the warmish southerly coming through. There was some development this afternoon but rather weak, and the upper dynamics not coming to much use.
Tomorrow's prospect don't look all that good either.

[Richard]

That southerly wind change never even made it this far north, just remained a mean NW wind day.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Up to 29.4C here today before the southerly wind change, which didn't really lower the temperature all that much.
Back to NE this evening, down to 15C @ 10pm from last night's overnight low of 19.2C.

[mikestormchaser]

I was thinking that, earlier, with the warmish southerly coming through. There was some development this afternoon but rather weak, and the upper dynamics not coming to much use.
Tomorrow's prospect don't look all that good either.[/quote] there was thunderstorms around the rangitata river mouth earlier on. Skipped past Ashburton out to sea.

[NZstorm]

Looking like eastern parts of NZ could have a very warm January by the time the month ends. The persistence of strong W flows means there could be some temperature records I think. Napier has reached 32C in the last 3 days.

[Richard]

Looking like eastern parts of NZ could have a very warm January by the time the month ends. The persistence of strong W flows means there could be some temperature records I think. Napier has reached 32C in the last 3 days.

More precisely coastal eastern parts as these winds we are getting a lot atm of have a cooling effect on the inland areas, the lack of slow moving or stationery highs over NZ over the last few summers means we've had cooler summers. I mentioned a week ago that i cant remember the last time a stationery high was parked up over NZ during summer.

[Bradley]

Looking like eastern parts of NZ could have a very warm January by the time the month ends. The persistence of strong W flows means there could be some temperature records I think. Napier has reached 32C in the last 3 days.

EC has been pretty consistent in it's forecast starting from Wednesday next week of exceptionally cool and wet conditions for Canterbury for an extended period?

[Manukau heads obs]

looks like a pattern change to high pressure after the 21st?

[Thunder]

Your right there Richard, has been a while since I've seen a slow moving high over NZ. Despite my tendency for wanting storms a high sticking around for a week or two would be great! lol.

[RWood]

Your right there Richard, has been a while since I've seen a slow moving high over NZ. Despite my tendency for wanting storms a high sticking around for a week or two would be great! lol.

Way overdue. Locally we already have the worst run of months for 24 years and enough is enough.

[spwill]

Sunday is looking humid over the North Island but more so where heating can occur. The likes of Whangarei/ Napier up to 30C in an 18C+ dewpoint air mass.

[Richard]

This prolonged period of westerly quarter winds weve had here for the last 4-5 days is more spring like than Jan. Today's WNW at least is not strong and gusty like that of yesterday.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Nice fine day here with southerly winds but after reverting back to the NE it gradually clouded over from the west.
Yes, it is interesting as the anticyclones have not been very strong , around the maximum of the 1020hPa mark.

[NZstorm]

EC has been pretty consistent in it's forecast starting from Wednesday next week of exceptionally cool and wet conditions for Canterbury for an extended period?

Looks like possible thunder set up there for the South Island. Something for you guys to watch.

[spwill]

Must be getting very dry in the far North, kerikeri only showing 4.8mm for the past month at MetService . Whangarei 6.8mm, Whangaporoa 9.4mm. Auckland city only doing slightly better for rainfall.
There is a front coming in tomorrow but likely very little rainfall with it north of Waikato

[Dean.]

A deep Tasman low keeps popping up in the models for next weekend.

This would disrupt the harvest

http://metvuw.com/forecast/forecast1.ph ... si&tim=186

[Orion]

Pretty orange sunset clouds tonight