Cold snap June 7th-9th may not be as bad as first thought

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Cold air never made it this far north. Currently 12.5°C at 6:30am saturday morning. But it has been persistantly windy

this tasman low should eventualy bring drought breaking rain to the NI east coast? (although it will be too late for good grass growth recovery now that the soil temperature has probabl dropped with frosts in the Hawkes bay last week (still 13°C soil temperature here though)
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Cold air never made it this far north.
850mb temp over Northland is about 7C while over Southland it is -7C. Yes, the cold weather has missed the north. :D

Yes tasman low has potential to bring heavy rain to Gisborne. I guess it depends hw much of that subtropical moisture ends up down this way.
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Sure is alot of very active/intense cloud systems spiriling away in the seas to the SE of NZ at the moment!
a bit of a hornets nest down that way!
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AllBlack game + Wellington = Cold howling Southerly
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Absolutely false, according to current conditions and the forecasts. We'll leave you Auks. (and other exposed places) to get the showers in the NI this week!

Even tomorrow's rain has been downgraded to possible showers at this stage.

If it all goes wrong, probably only a shower or two is the worst outcome for tonight I reckon. Otherwise, handling conditions should be pretty good for the time of the year.
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I dont think Spwill was actualy making a forecast as such, and you have read into it the wrong way
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I'm well aware of that. I'm just booting it back because it's a silly generalisation. On quite a lot of the the evidence of the last decade, one could equally well say "Auckland plus rugby test = regular showers"
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RWood wrote:I'm well aware of that. I'm just booting it back because it's a silly generalisation. On quite a lot of the the evidence of the last decade, one could equally well say "Auckland plus rugby test = regular showers"
isn't this a little off topic on this particular thread? :lol:
fantastic day here in Christchurch today, just a light S blowing this afternoon, with a few clouds about.
Some of the cold air from down south has certainly come up this way just without the snow and hail :lol:
Should be a frosty one tonight.
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Superb day here too, virtually cloudless from the start. The whole "event" has been a non-event here.
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AllBlack game + Wellington = Cold howling Southerly
Sometimes more useful for upsetting Wellingtonians than predicting the weather.

Comment was made tongue in cheek RWood :)
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I see Hanmer Springs is only sitting on 3.3C!!! could get some snow there maybe today? looks very cloudly and horrible!!! http://www.hanmer.co.nz
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