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How long winter will go

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Whats your opinions about winter?
I reckon it will go quite a bit longer probably bringing storms to heated land soon by the increasing sun hours in lee of prevailing winds but all the SH continents like S America,S Africa and even Australia are all wallowing still in below 20° temps and it wont till ie Santiago gets 6° to 31° range that it will start to change.(this hasnt yet)These are my views,others will differ?
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Michael wrote:Whats your opinions about winter?
I reckon it will go quite a bit longer probably bringing storms to heated land soon by the increasing sun hours in lee of prevailing winds but all the SH continents like S America,S Africa and even Australia are all wallowing still in below 20° temps and it wont till ie Santiago gets 6° to 31° range that it will start to change.(this hasnt yet)These are my views,others will differ?
Do you mean this winter, Michael? How's it been up there? Does it still feel like winter in Auckland or the NI? Down here in the Mackenzie it's been spring (or spring-like if you prefer) for some weeks.

Or do you think that with the warmer land temps we've been experiencing (at least down here) we'll get some interesting weather because you expect more cold blasts from the south? Not disagreeing, just trying to get my head around the question.
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you had something like -5oC just yesterday morning Gary?
and you call that spring weather?
i would call that winter weather


still very much winter weather up this way
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Manukau heads observer wrote:you had something like -5oC just yesterday morning Gary?
and you call that spring weather?
i would call that winter weather


still very much winter weather up this way
Nah, winter temps are in the minus double figures, whereas -5.8 °C is just a chilly spring day! :lol:
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I've all ways found the case of the winters length depends on how it develops at the start,usually if it starts really cold and sudden it tends to burn quickly,significant snow,frost and for a shorter period, if it starts warm it just stays like that through the whole season with no significant issues but of average length,but if it starts late and unusually hot,it makes up for it at the end of winter with some sort of final act but slightly longer, I've really not been in New Zealand long enough to gauge the winters here. :)
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in another 13 days you can start talking about spring gary

certainly not a spring weather pattern over the last few days
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Manukau heads observer wrote:in another 13 days you can start talking about spring gary
Well, no, I can talk about it now. The idea that seasons run to a calendar, or by the length of a daay, is outmoded, I believe. If the weather is "spring-like" near the end of what is usually winter, it's probably spring. That holds true for all seasons in my opinion.
certainly not a spring weather pattern over the last few days
Perhaps not where you live, but down here it's been typical of very early spring.
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Hi Gary

I see you have had a high of 5.6c today. Thats not very spring like is it?

Feels very much like winter here in Rolly.

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yes, when you get a weather pattern that brings warmer than normal temperatures at the end of the winter period, then yes you can say, its an early spring weather pattern
that is not happening at the moment
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Gary McConnochie wrote: I see you have had a high of 5.6c today. Thats not very spring like is it?
Mate, that's t-shirt weather down here! Harden up!

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Born and breed in Fairlie, i think that makes me hard enough. :D :D :D
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Gary McConnochie wrote:Born and breed in Fairlie, i think that makes me hard enough. :D :D :D
Pfft! Fairlie? You may as well have said Parnell! Bloody townies...

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So...?? I didn't see you in jandals and tshirt getting the firewood in...

and how come you were home inside all day... huh??

You can have some of our inch a day of rain if you like...
oh spring should arrive on Sunday - half a sunny day up here with norwesters...

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Gary Roberts wrote:Pfft! Fairlie? You may as well have said Parnell! Bloody townies...

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What about Ponsonby! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:..... 8-[
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Gary Roberts wrote:
Gary McConnochie wrote:Born and breed in Fairlie, i think that makes me hard enough. :D :D :D
Pfft! Fairlie? You may as well have said Parnell! Bloody townies...

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surpised to see yet more rain here this morning, that next frontal sheet sure came across the tasman fast
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It would better with 2° to 10° still with sunshine but think those colder temps are over now this year rather than 8° to 15 with rain and wind however but this winter hasnt been too bad to now because the lack of SW but the jetstream is moving down slowly.
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Manukau heads observer wrote:surpised to see yet more rain here this morning, that next frontal sheet sure came across the tasman fast
Oh great - the fog is lifting, so soon it will turn to showers and at 11am I am a referee!! Nice... ;)

Well the Wxsim forecast was right then... hehe!
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Has Winter arrived?? Ive found this winter to be particularly mild, and wet . Although, maybe the fact that I live in Edinburgh for a year has made this winter in Auckland seem particulalry mild. Lows of 10 degrees are pretty lame in the middle of winter. More like edinburghs tail end spring weather!
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its been pretty much normal winter temperatures (slightly warmer only) than normal
yup, in this part of the country, if it gets below 10oC, is considered cold!!
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anyway..winter is nearly over..bring on summer! Heres hopeing for a long dry warm sunny summer, unlike the last summer we had..which was lame!
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must be time for a TC this summer I reckon :)
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We dont really get it that cold often,It can be lows of 10 or 11° in June,October and April,though it seldom goes under 10 as a minimum in summer,more like 14 to 18 can be common though summer maximums can vary from 16° when its either raining or a SW flow to 28° ocassionally with light N from a good anticyclone sometimes.
npfield wrote:Has Winter arrived?? Ive found this winter to be particularly mild, and wet . Although, maybe the fact that I live in Edinburgh for a year has made this winter in Auckland seem particulalry mild. Lows of 10 degrees are pretty lame in the middle of winter. More like edinburghs tail end spring weather!
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I reackon winter will go until it finishes :-k

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Winter temperatures seem to very a lot in Auckland. Here in Howick we get frosts every year, whereas much other Auckland areas don't get frost, even 2km away from me :-k

Lowest this year was -1.0 on 23rd July. Anyone else in Auckland notice these variations?
I also notice we get more rain here, 867mm so far this year. Can't complain about that :mrgreen:

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