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Andy
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Foggy Alexandra

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Lots of thick fog here today, looks like being the coldest day so far this year.

Temp ATM. 1.4 degrees
Min overnight - 2.1

Anyone else in fog land... ;)
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Fujita Phil
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2/8 and calm here when i woke. Now getting breezy with a westerly
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Andy
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Fujita Phil wrote:2/8 and calm here when i woke. Now getting breezy with a westerly
Yea hopefully she blows through here. ;)
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Gary Roberts
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Re: Foggy Alexandra

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Andy wrote:Lots of thick fog here today, looks like being the coldest day so far this year.

Temp ATM. 1.4 degrees
Min overnight - 2.1

Anyone else in fog land... ;)
Yeah, we got that fog too. Very dense, but not too cold, only -1.5°. We had a small amount of snow before sunrise, which turned to sleet, then rain, then faded away completely around sun up, leaving just the fog, and that burned off pretty fast.
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small amount of snow before sunrise, which turned to sleet, then rain
Must have been a bit of an isothermal affect to get the snow. :shock:
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Andy
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Max today only 1.8 degrees, clear blue skies above the fog at 400m
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NZ Thunderstorm Soc
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...mmmm interesting :-k
Fine and sunny in Dunedin according to the news reports
Cloudy here but it could of been a bit more finer
Ground fog in Central Otago/Inland areas of the lower to mid SI

all this under an area of nothing, what I mean no real anticyclonic condition. Nothing evident of an approaching cold front.
A cold event did pass to the south of us but of no significance to us here.

Maybe the atmosphere is reserving all it's energy to the developing shallow low pressure system in the north Tasman Sea. :)


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Re: Foggy Alexandra

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Andy wrote:
Anyone else in fog land... ;)
Yes! here yesterday, fog well into early afternoon and cleared to some mist. Only a maximum of 13c- coldest max in the North, I see surrounding cities got 16s and 18s

You could see your breath hanging in the air all day! :D
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Andy
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More low cloud and fog today but the inversion lay had lifted to around 800-900m, light snow fell to around 700m this morning.

Max today a balmy 9.2, rather warm after yesterday.
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Andy wrote:More low cloud and fog today but the inversion lay had lifted to around 800-900m, light snow fell to around 700m this morning.
Woke to a cold morning here too. Would have sworn there was a touch of white at the top of Mt Cargill, maybe I was right.

Currently 3C, with a high of only 7.8C today
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Andy
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hmmm....... Another day of thick fog and cool temps.

Temp 3.1 and foggggggggy. ;)
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Andy
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More fog this morning.

Temp 1.6 degrees
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Off topic question for Andy (yes another Alexandra question!)

Central Otago 45.14976 169.48833

Image

"Moutere Disputed Spu Road"

It does appear to be an official road name - see http://rates.orc.govt.nz/

Was it names after a surveyers 21st party? :?

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Yes overcast here with overnight light rain/drizzle.
Ha seems the days on this post are a little messed up check out Fujita Phils post a few up from this one it says it's posted on Monday 16th June hmmm it's immpossible to get a day ahead of us :-k or is there something u are not telling us Phil? :D :-k :lol: :lol:
I seen you Aaron last night outside Burger King walking back wud have shouted out but I was on my way to Dieasals.
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Jasestrm wrote:Yes overcast here with overnight light rain/drizzle.
Ha seems the days on this post are a little messed up check out Fujita Phils post a few up from this one it says it's posted on Monday 16th June hmmm it's immpossible to get a day ahead of us :-k or is there something u are not telling us Phil? :D :-k :lol: :lol:
I seen you Aaron last night outside Burger King walking back wud have shouted out but I was on my way to Dieasals.
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Look again Jason...I believe it says 16th of MAY! :D
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opps my bad I see :D :lol: easy mistake.
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This afternoon finally saw the clearance of 3 days of continuous fog. Whether it was thick, misty or haze. ;)

Cheers, from the fog city ;)
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Gary Roberts wrote:
Jasestrm wrote:Yes overcast here with overnight light rain/drizzle.
Ha seems the days on this post are a little messed up check out Fujita Phils post a few up from this one it says it's posted on Monday 16th June hmmm it's immpossible to get a day ahead of us :-k or is there something u are not telling us Phil? :D :-k :lol: :lol:
I seen you Aaron last night outside Burger King walking back wud have shouted out but I was on my way to Dieasals.
Cheers
JASON
Look again Jason...I believe it says 16th of MAY! :D
...reporting from the future... ooo eee ooo ;)

Another blue dome day here, 3rd in a row with no sign of fog. A bit more of a breeze today though but starting with the now daily frost. A few more this week yet.
There is no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothes.
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This afternoon finally saw the clearance of 3 days of continuous fog. Whether it was thick, misty or haze.
I remember at least 3 days of continuous fog when I was at Uni in Hamilton back in June 1990. Daytime temperatures were suppressed I believe to no more than about 6C - in fact I think Hamilton recorded a colder than normal month, while the rest of NZ was milder than average. I remember travelling home to Rotorua and coming out of the fog over the Mamaku Plateau - the brightness was amazing, even though it was still partly cloudy.
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Foggy Hamilton wrote:This afternoon finally saw the clearance of 3 days of continuous fog. Whether it was thick, misty or haze. ;)

Cheers, from the fog city ;)
I was on a Ham. flight diverted to Tauranga on Sat am - didn't mind the scenic bus trip back to Hamilton, but Tauranga airport is a piddly under-resourced facility, I would say - took forever to move a few bags around. Hamilton remained "claggy" over the weekend, but Monday was lovely with a light breeze and sunny skies. Now back to a cruddy southeasterly here - only odd showers but cool and cloudy, though perhaps brightening a bit now.
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