August Weather Observations 2006

[Andy]

From my station in Alexandra.

Average temp: 7.2°

Max temperature: 21.8 °C (31st)
Average max: 14.7 °C

Lowest Maximum: 6.1 °C (7th)
Highest Minimum: 11.1°C (30th)

Min temperature: -7.4°C (10th) (<= 0°C on 20 days)
Average min: -0.3°C

Rainfall: 7 mm (on 3 days)
Max rain: 4 mm (12th)
For 2006 so far: 120 mm

Longest period without rain: 10 days
Highest pressure: 1030 mb (5th)
Lowest pressure: 992 mb (12th)

Cold first half of the month but warming in to spring with windy NW near the end of the month. Becoming very dry with exteme fire danger only 120mm of rain so far this year.

[Willoughby]

Hamilton East

Average temperature = 9.7 °C
Average humidity = 84 %
Average dewpoint = 7.1 °C
Average barometer = 1014.5 mb
Average windspeed = 7.4 km/h
Average gustspeed = 10.3 km/h
Average direction = 277 ° ( W )
Rainfall for month = 127.4 mm
Rainfall for year = 918.2 mm
Maximum temperature = 17.3 °C on day 25 at time 14:02
Minimum temperature = -1.9 °C on day 22 at time 07:1
Minimum humidity = 45 % on day 16 at time 14:15
Maximum pressure = 1029.1 mb on day 18 at time 10:59
Minimum pressure = 985.7 mb on day 07 at time 16:34
Maximum windspeed = 50.0 kmh from 211 °(SSW) on day 22 at time 13:33
Maximum gust speed = 64.8 km/h from 203 °(SSW) on day 22 at time 13:34

Avg daily max temp = 14.8 °C
Avg daily min temp = 5.3 °C
Growing degrees days = 74.5 °C
Total windrun = 5467.4km

[Skywatcher]

From my station in Templeton:

Average temp: 6.9 °C

Max temperature: 20.3 °C (29th)
Average max: 12.3 °C

Min temperature: -3.5 °C (10th) (<= 0°C on 7 days)
Average min: 2.1 °C

Rainfall: 98.0 mm (on 13 days)
Max rain: 24.0 mm (8th)
For 2006 so far: 574.0 mm

[GraemeWi]

August 2006 Waimauku, Auckland
Maximum Temperature: 20.4°C (Tuesday 29 August)
Lowest Maximum: 12.6 °C (Saturday 05 August)
Minimum Temperature: 1.9 °C (Thursday 17 August)
Highest Minimum: 13.1°C (Wednesday 02 August)
Total Rainfall: 131.0 mm
Days with rain: 19 out of 31 days
Most rain: 41.0 mm (Sunday 06 August)
Longest period without rain: 4 days (Ending Sunday 20 August)
Highest pressure: 1028 mb (Friday 18 August)
Lowest pressure: 987 mb (Monday 07 August)

Rainfall year to date: 855.5 mm

[janewaystv]

Any idea when the NIWA NZ August weather summary is going to come out

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Any idea when the NIWA NZ August weather summary is going to come out

Dunno.
When it does, you can hardly read it

JohnGaul
NZTS

[Michael]

about the 15th of the month or abouts and to make your screen bigger in IE click view-text size

Any idea when the NIWA NZ August weather summary is going to come out

Dunno.
When it does, you can hardly read it

JohnGaul
NZTS

[RWood]

It's late, usually out by 4th-5th.

[RWood]

NIWA August report [remember these data are provisional]. The high values at Dunedin and In'gill contributed to record winter sun in both places.

http://www.niwascience.co.nz/ncc/cs/0608sum.pdf

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

...sorry about the lateness of this but I recorded 170.9mm of rain here in Somerfield for August and 94.5mm at our place at West Melton.
Total for year in Somerfield stands at 723.5mm so far.

JohnGaul
NZTS

[Wildland]

My notes on the weather at Tawa, north of Wellington, for August can be found here:
http://wildland.owdjim.gen.nz/?p=214

Click on the Wild Land banner at the top of the page for more recent stories.

[RWood]

Despite the wetness the winter was not far below the average temp., and was much sunnier than usual. But of course the 2005 winter was relatively warm and dry and culminated in an August that was exceptionally sunny and dry, as well as being milder than average.

As commented in the NIWA summary for winter - it was the coldest since 1997 for the country, but only 0.2C below average. As I observed elsewhere, every NZ winter 1929-1941 inclusive was colder...