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Looking Good #2
Looks like it may be good - and I'm sticking my my neck out for thunder in Christchurch - this WE
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I've looked at the latest models. GASP is predicting a west to southwest change by Saturday, but a cold one in the south. By Monday or Tuesday, there'll be snow in Greymouth if its forecast is correct (520 thickness cutting across middle of South Island in a strong west to southwest flow!), but as we all know it probably won't turn out that extreme (but it could - remember early July)
ECMWF goes for a low to the east of NZ this weekend - not good for the east if you're sick of wet weather. The second front on Monday looks a lot tamer than GASP's prognosis. AVN is somewhere between GASP and ECMWF, but with no second front reaching NZ at the end of the forecast period.
All in all, a pretty unsettled weekend - somewhere in NZ will be cold, wet, and windy. It's just that the models disagree where.
Ben
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ECMWF goes for a low to the east of NZ this weekend - not good for the east if you're sick of wet weather. The second front on Monday looks a lot tamer than GASP's prognosis. AVN is somewhere between GASP and ECMWF, but with no second front reaching NZ at the end of the forecast period.
All in all, a pretty unsettled weekend - somewhere in NZ will be cold, wet, and windy. It's just that the models disagree where.
Ben
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Yes, Steven you would probably be right but after a month of boring weather you may never know what may happen. ECMWF looked good the other day but now I'm not so sure.NZstorm wrote:John,
This weekends weather pattern would be good for thunder/large hail in Canterbury at a warmer time of year.
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Judging by sattelite pix, the spotty shower clouds seem to be moving up the West Coast (Might be a tornado in Cobden tomorrow !!!!).
The baro dropped very quickly early this morning here down to a 'peak' of 989.6hPa or millibars about 1pm, but then it had risen a little with a wind flow a more Sw to West direction from 7pm.
With this sort of scenario, anything could happen Aaron
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The baro dropped very quickly early this morning here down to a 'peak' of 989.6hPa or millibars about 1pm, but then it had risen a little with a wind flow a more Sw to West direction from 7pm.
With this sort of scenario, anything could happen Aaron
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