a break in the Westerlies
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a break in the Westerlies
it seems that we are having a break in the westerlies for a few days anyways witch will make a change been light winds here and reached 24C got some convection happening dont know how good it will yet nxt few days could be good for some shower/storm activity well for the north anyways with the seabreeze convergence what do you all reckon
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Re: a break in the westerlys
Westerlies...anyway which...next...convergencesquid wrote:it seems that we are having a break in the westerlys for a few days anyways witch will make a change been light winds here and reached 24C got some convection happening dont know how good it will yet nxt few days could be good for some shower/storm activity well for the north anyways with the seabreeze convergance ( correct me if i spelt it wrong and i will fix it later) what do you all reckon
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I don't think there is any break in the westerlies, I think that it is going to be boring as the westerlies are weaker this spring.
Everything moves from the west to the east, so there will not be a lack of a westerly flow
Next week's low is going to be useless as it is in the north Tasman Sea, so no interesting weather here. Yawn...
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I don't think there is any break in the westerlies, I think that it is going to be boring as the westerlies are weaker this spring.
Everything moves from the west to the east, so there will not be a lack of a westerly flow
Next week's low is going to be useless as it is in the north Tasman Sea, so no interesting weather here. Yawn...
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We should see some afternoon inland showers tomorrow once some heating gets going after the early cloud from that front clears. I don't think storms unless dewpoints are around 10 and temp gets to around 18 which seems unlikely. But yeah, hopefully some interesting Cu to look at.
Sunday still looks like a possible storm day with an upper trough near by and it should be mostly fine with ok moisture. But seen as it's a we way out things could change.
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Sunday still looks like a possible storm day with an upper trough near by and it should be mostly fine with ok moisture. But seen as it's a we way out things could change.
Cheers
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Cloud increased today, became 8/8 by 11am with drizzle turning to periods of rain with northeasterlies.
(4mm)
The forecast all day from the MetService?
Mainly fine.
Don't get me wrong that it was low cloud and the satellites don't pick it up.. but I thought the new JMA MT-SAT was good enough to detect fog??
(4mm)
The forecast all day from the MetService?
Mainly fine.
Don't get me wrong that it was low cloud and the satellites don't pick it up.. but I thought the new JMA MT-SAT was good enough to detect fog??
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a convergence zone of differeing airmasses was occuring over the upper NI today.....becuase of winds moving around she high sliding into and under a different airmass on the edge of the high (which was left behind from the last weather system in a way)
i.e a type of easterly surge was occuring today....
surface NE wind was stronger than winds higher up too
there was areas of showers around hunua and to the NW of me here, but pretty good weather most of the day right here
i.e a type of easterly surge was occuring today....
surface NE wind was stronger than winds higher up too
there was areas of showers around hunua and to the NW of me here, but pretty good weather most of the day right here
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yes, 3mm here overnight ina short period of moderate rain...
currently blue skies to out west, but a cloud line over the city , extending SSW
this mucky left over stuff normaly slowly improves and clears and settles over a few days...
models show that next low will deepen and then be slow moving over the NI
could be lots of rain and strong easterlies for the bottom half of the NI
currently blue skies to out west, but a cloud line over the city , extending SSW
this mucky left over stuff normaly slowly improves and clears and settles over a few days...
models show that next low will deepen and then be slow moving over the NI
could be lots of rain and strong easterlies for the bottom half of the NI
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Yes, models are fairly stable at the moment with the idea of a low over Northern NZ mid next week. This low looks like it will have a good moisture feed into it.models show that next low will deepen and then be slow moving over the NI
could be lots of rain and strong easterlies for the bottom half of the NI
I see Met Service in their convective forecast are suggesting possible very heavy showers for Auckland/Waikato tonight. Does look to be some good low level CAPE from this afternoon. Relatively warmer upper level air though will prevent the development of deeper thundery cb's.
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warm and muggy day here with showers around lunchtime they have been pushed to the east by the seabreeze but another line out to the west aswell some places in the north could get some good falls overnight and 2morow and yes another low for the north tasman witch will mean more action for the north island sorry you south island folk you will get ur action sometime soon
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