It's Quite Warm

[Willoughby]

Fine with some cloud and slightly hazy, 22c, dewpoint 13c, little wind if any..

I notice CH Ap is on 29c at 1pm

[Fujita Phil]

It's 22C here with thick high cloud. Funniest thing is that everyone is saying how "muggy" it is. Losers

Humidity... 32%
Dew Point... 3.7C

Ha

[dogmelon]

Of course numbers are just that, numbers. A guide of sorts. You can make of the numbers what you will and feel however you want to feel.

[squid]

i go by what i record so there any wasy recorded 27c 2day a very warm day

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Interesting with today's warmth.
I got up to 31C where as the telly said it was only 29C
whereas yesterday I only got up to 28.2C where as it was just over 30c at the airport according to today's PRESS

JohnGaul
NZTS

[Willoughby]

i go by what i record so there any wasy recorded 27c 2day a very warm day

Then I could just say Hamilton got to 28c?
Yeah right.

I'd believe your bloated temperatures if you did happen to live in a localised basin.. but I doubt it being near the western coast close to Dargaville.. right?

What you should do is take off about 2-3c from that figure and then report it...
otherwise everyone would be doing that and the globe will really melt!!

This has been said before here on the forum..
"Forecasting the weather is hard, reporting it isn't!"

Cheers

[squid]

doubt all you want we will just have to agree to disagree on this one i mean i have bene living here all my life anyways warm nihgt last night and the Nw is back charming

[RWood]

And we can all cheerfully continue the tradition of over-reporting temps - TVNZ has various city mayors who have taken a lot of trouble to misrepresent their favourite places.

[Gary Roberts]

And we can all cheerfully continue the tradition of over-reporting temps - TVNZ has various city mayors who have taken a lot of trouble to misrepresent their favourite places.

The Mayor of Oamaru went on record in the local media as being confident that their new $15,000 weather station shall "prove" that Oamaru has better weather than has been previously reported to-date, and a flood of tourism dollars shall result.

[Gary Roberts]

doubt all you want we will just have to agree to disagree on this one i mean i have bene living here all my life anyways warm nihgt last night and the Nw is back charming

No offense intended squid but inaccurate weather data is the bane of our existence. Well it's annoying, anyway. Down here I'm forever being bitched at by people who claim that my weather data are incorrect: either they're too low ("It was much hotter than that!") or too high ("It was much colder than that!")...I've yet to have my readings queried by anybody who has properly sited and calibrated weather instruments. It's always some guy with a thermometer hanging on a brick wall exposed to the sun, or reflected/reradiated heat.

On top of that are the people - RWood's mayors, for instance - who believe they have a vested financial interest in boosting the sunshine and temperature figures for their area. Local politicians and business people always seem to think that if they can bump those numbers up, a huge tourism windfall will be the result, and they'll all become even richer.

I'm not saying that your data are wrong...it's just that we've all been down this road way too many times.

[spwill]

The Mayor of Oamaru went on record in the local media as being confident that their new $15,000 weather station shall "prove" that Oamaru has better weather than has been previously reported to-date, and a flood of tourism dollars shall result.

All the new Hotel towers might spoil the place.

[Gary Roberts]

All the new Hotel towers might spoil the place.

They probably saw how rich the rapaciously greedy developer scum were getting (and have become) from utterly destroying Queenstown, Wanaka, Twizel and Lake Tekapo, so decided they wanted a piece of that too.

I guess the environment and natural beauty can be safely disregarded when there's money to be made.

[dogmelon]

It was a fool who sold the goose that laid the golden egg. Well we have done just that and sold our grandmothers to.

[NZstorm]

I guess the environment and natural beauty can be safely disregarded when there's money to be made

Looks like the Little Blue Penquins will be looking for a new home.

[squid]

no offence taken at all gary I am with ya now no point in debating this till we die lets all move on and try to be the best at reporting correct wether that we can did have a brezzy Nw that has slaked off somewhat now and had a lil bit of rain and i dont know what it wants to do now is that better

[RWood]

Delving back into some history - given the possibility of a La Nina maturing - Jan 1956 was exceptionally warm, and for Central Otago and some of Canterbury it's still the warmest month on record. The most notable part of the month was 10th-21st (BTW this was all during a La Nina event of quite long duration). Courtesy of Jolyon Manning of Bridge Hill, Alexandra, these were the official daily max. readings in Alex. at the time (sorry, haven't bothered to convert to deg C!)

Day Max(F)
10 92.8
11 92.0
12 91.8
13 92.2
14 86.9
15 89.0
16 92.3
17 75.2
18 83.0
19 89.0
20 97.3
21 99.0

Mean daily max for the month was 83.5F (28.6C). Ashburton had 101.2
on 19th but a lower avg. daily max for the month. Cromwell's numbers were similar to those of Alex.

Things weren't so great for holidaymakers in the north (though very warm).

[Andy]

10 92.8 33.8
11 92.0 33.3
12 91.8 33.2
13 92.2 33.4
14 86.9 30.5
15 89.0 31.7
16 92.3 33.5
17 75.2 24.0
18 83.0 28.3
19 89.0 31.7
20 97.3 36.3
21 99.0 37.2

There u go now that was a central heat wave

[NZstorm]

Does NZ get proper heat waves? Perhaps Alexandra comes closest but it is without humidity.

The hottest spell observed in Auckland was in 1998 when Henderson recorded an average daily max of 30.1C over a 14 day period, (33.1C was the highest reading). And for a 28day period, average max was 29.0.

[Storm Struck]

The hotest day on NZ record i dont believe has been beaten yet that was when Rangiora here in North Canterbury reached 42C during a NWer.
I believe it followed off from a heatwave in Australia where the air moved over Canterbury I bet there was some heavy falls of rain and thunderstorms on west coast on that day does any one have any totals?
Cheers
JASON.

[NZstorm]

Jason, I believe it was a bit warmer than that, 42.5C maybe. We have discussed that day on this forum before, one interesting point made was that the thermometer has never hit the 40'sC in NZ since.

[Gary Roberts]

Jason, I believe it was a bit warmer than that, 42.5C maybe. We have discussed that day on this forum before, one interesting point made was that the thermometer has never hit the 40'sC in NZ since.

42.4° - Rangiora & Jordan - 7 February 1973

http://www.metservice.co.nz/default/ind ... key=191582

Also people are forever telling me it was 40°+...their bones or their old thermometers said so. End of story.

[TonyT]

and as well as Rangiora the same temperature was recorded on the same day in the Botanic Gardens, Christchurch and at Jordan, in the Awatere Valley in Marlborough. Locals report strange phenomena such as birds stopping singing and even falling out of the sky with exhaustion, and chocolate melting out of the packets in the dairys and stores.

Afterthought: It must get to 42 deg or more fairly regularly in parts of Australia, how do they get on for chocolate supplies there?

[Michael]

the front moved quickly on the 7th feb to lie north of the NI by the 9th but had NW conditions from the 1st from an australian NW

[spwill]

Afterthought: It must get to 42 deg or more fairly regularly in parts of Australia, how do they get on for chocolate supplies there?

Hot Chocolate ?
Can remember a lot of airconditioning from my days living in OZ.


Drove through Death Valley in California, it's one of the hottest places on Earth. Temp was 45C, a local said we had arrived on a cool day.

[Michael]

Definitely hardly ever need airconditioning here..perhaps a couple of days in high summer about all

Can remember a lot of airconditioning from my days living in OZ.