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C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Mon 31/07/2006 11:51

Hi all,
Just thought i'd start a new thread for this weeks weather.

Slight chance of afternoon T/S today, but i doubt it.

Just hideous grey murk today

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Mon 31/07/2006 11:58

Its one of those expected days ie rain all day and watch the sun at 525pm as it sits in a patch of blue as it sets and the windows cry all night under a clear sky

squid · Unread post by **squid** » Mon 31/07/2006 12:35

gfs is hinting at a nice low by the weekend witch would lead to Easterly winds if this happends.

Janos · Unread post by **Janos** » Mon 31/07/2006 14:03

Nothing to do with Auckland but 18.9deg in Dunedin in July.

Has spring come early and winter departed....probably not.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Mon 31/07/2006 14:30

gfs is hinting at a nice low by the weekend witch would lead to Easterly winds if this happends.

Perhaps some heavy rainfall for areas exposed to the NE early next week , have to wait and see where the Low tracks.

Flutterbye · Unread post by **Flutterbye** » Mon 31/07/2006 15:28

Janos wrote:Nothing to do with Auckland but 18.9deg in Dunedin in July.

Has spring come early and winter departed....probably not.

Fingers crossed Janos - I have reached a reading of 17.2 with a gusty NW - Definitely a better day than has been forecast.

Angel · Unread post by **Angel** » Mon 31/07/2006 16:35

You all have to do a nice anti-rain dance for me for wednesday and thursday

(in Taupo) cuz i'm going car racing, and i'm not gonna be happy if it rains on me while i'm speeding down the back straight of the taupo track

haha

Flutterbye · Unread post by **Flutterbye** » Mon 31/07/2006 16:51

Angel wrote:You all have to do a nice anti-rain dance for me for wednesday and thursday (in Taupo) cuz i'm going car racing, and i'm not gonna be happy if it rains on me while i'm speeding down the back straight of the taupo track haha

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Mon 31/07/2006 18:27

A Spring day feel today warm and calm and trees just getting that hint of spring around the corner.

18.8C here today and 19.2C in Rangiora

Make the most of tomorrow 15C and plenty sun again because it's going to pack a sad on Wednesday.

Cheers
Jason.

janewaystv · Unread post by **janewaystv** » Mon 31/07/2006 18:43

Would that be due to W winds?, same for sydney, had mild days over last few days due to warmer W winds, nice are they (warm that is)

Manukau heads obs · Mon 31/07/2006 21:15

in the clouds big time here this evening, everthing outside is soaking wet
20mm or so of rain here today,,...Waiuku, down the coastline, missed alot of the rain, which was drapped in a line through here most of the day....
relatively warm at 13oC at 9pm

Manukau heads obs · Tue 01/08/2006 08:24

there could be some heavy rain and maybe some CB's in that small low moving down from the NW?
(associated with the front on its SE side)?

ricky · Unread post by **ricky** » Tue 01/08/2006 08:36

yep, does look like it

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Tue 01/08/2006 08:43

yes i agree Brian, that low has developed over the last six hours and seems to be plenty of instability around there.

Do you think in a situation like this that because its a bit warmer in auckland, any Cb's that do make it onto land may survive a bit longer due to the land temps??

the 12 hour satellite sequence shows this instability quite nicely

Manukau heads obs · Tue 01/08/2006 08:50

soil temperature only 10oC here at the moment (the 13oC rain has increased it a bit), so not very warm,....but an organised front will survice much better,....there is a jet stream squrt cloud just behiund it...might fire it up even more?
with the break in the cloud could see lots of different wind directions through the profile (NE at the surface, NW up at the high cloud level)

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Tue 01/08/2006 09:12

Manukau heads observer wrote: jet stream squrt cloud just behiund it...might fire it up even more?

cheers brian, what is a squirt cloud? does this indicate a strong jetstream up above?

thanks

Manukau heads obs · Tue 01/08/2006 10:29

LOL, just a description I made up...

for when cloud suddenly shows up in a line indicating a strengthening jet stream.,.....which could provide extra energy for the front (like blowing over a chimney, takes away the updraft air faster, allowing stronger updrafts too occur....and also lowering the air pressure by cooling the atmosphere ...at the exit area of the jet (where it extends the furtherst south in the curve down and then up) and so that all increases the instability.....
something like ...i might not have the technical aspects correct, but thats the way i see it all working....LOL

Manukau heads obs · Tue 01/08/2006 11:42

looks good on the rain radar
but nothing showing on rickys lightning tracker
(yet)

Manukau heads obs · Tue 01/08/2006 14:24

yet another fizzer....how depressing, LOL

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Tue 01/08/2006 14:28

yup, just heavy peeeeeeersistent rain here in newmarket.

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Tue 01/08/2006 15:57

a mirror image of weather to this day 10 years ago but i think 1996 was more flooding to the north

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Tue 01/08/2006 18:18

We all had chuckles at Auckland's weather today on the voyage home.. a fine or partly cloudy flight right from Samoa to Northland.. then came in that pesky, warm stratus. Pilot said off a metar 'conditions have improved, and it's just overcast now at Auckland Airport.'
Typically it was raining. Ohhh you gotta love NZ weather.

ricky · Unread post by **ricky** » Wed 02/08/2006 07:19

Welcome back Foggy!

we have had some stunning fine weather here recently

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Wed 02/08/2006 08:37

Another wet day on the cards, thunder risk is quite low.. but those dewpoints are up there! 13Â°C not at all bad for this time of year.. showers coming down on the RR do have a sharp look about them.

Upper trough active to the WSW.. but looks like it will weaken as it heads over Tasman Bays and Taranaki tomorrow morning. (looks good for thunder there.. especially Buller earlier)

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Wed 02/08/2006 10:28

the unstable pool is the tassie looks attractive.

I see metservice reckons that 'bands of organised showers" are instore for us 2nite and 2moro morning.

I'd hate to think what bands of unorganised showers look like. Do they arrive late or in the wrong place, and do some of them have notes from their parents (Cb's) explaining that they cannot make it into the waikato today because they are sick or forgot their P.E gear??

just guessing really