Subtropical rain North Island, from 5th Dec

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Re: Subtropical rain North Island, from 5th Dec

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Dew points approaching 21C in parts of Auckland now. Cloud has thinned but still hasn't broken. I see metservice have upped the highs for Northland to 24 as well. They've also changed the forecast from rain to showers for today and tomorrow instead of rain. Negligible lightning activity around Northland at the moment, so hopefully the heating and high dew points will re-activate thunderstorm activity as expected by metservice.
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Re: Subtropical rain North Island, from 5th Dec

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Aloha, 20C dewpoints here :D

[quoteNegligible lightning activity around Northland at the moment, so hopefully the heating and high dew points will re-activate thunderstorm activity ][/quote]
Yes, not much heating this afternoon for the North by the looks but should see some thundery Cb's redevelop over Northland .
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A terracotta empty plant pot exposed to the NE has about 2 inches in it.Nice humidity here now :D
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cloud nealry broken here. get bursts of sunlight and when that happens it is like being in the tropics. Also since the sun has started breaking through there are more and more dark showers around. So hopefully this sun can cause some more land heating
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bit further south in Wanganui, constant drizzle/light rain. A much needed 7.0 mm rain in last 12 hours (last period of rain was 19 days ago)
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Re: Subtropical rain North Island, from 5th Dec

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Latest rain radar (4.35pm) shows what looks to be medium intensity showers just heading in from the north now.

Also suggests a localised heavy downpour right in the city centre.

Could be some beefier things to follow too...... :mrgreen:
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cant wait 4 the 6 oclock radar. my god have the heavens just opened.

i see MS have made a severe thunderstorm watch all down the upper NI into waikato which makes sence because there are some heavy rains about.
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Re: Subtropical rain North Island, from 5th Dec

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Southeasters are starting to pick up now, dewpoint dropping to 15C also. Cells going up just to the north of Hamilton city.
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j--me--h wrote:MS have made a severe thunderstorm watch
Why don't they just make it for heavy showers, surely they can see there's really no lightning around. They must be expecting some convection to happen, there's not a great deal of heavy rain around.
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David wrote:
j--me--h wrote:MS have made a severe thunderstorm watch
Why don't they just make it for heavy showers, surely they can see there's really no lightning around. They must be expecting some convection to happen, there's not a great deal of heavy rain around.
I totally agree. there are no thunderstorms about at all. its just humid heavy showers.

after that heavy shower we had the winds have changed and are now a stiff E to SE.
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Some shower development over NW Waikato currently .
Light rain here, dewpoints still 19C.
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looks like just north of Hamilton is now the new battle ground ;)
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Haha it sure was :shock: 8) . turned to widespread drizzle now.

Foggy, did it look good from hillcrest? I would amagine it wouldnt have been spectacular. I couldnt see alot as it all blew up right on top of us pretty much
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The 15C dewpoint at Hamilton means stable air and its on its way north. As Met Service have indicated, the instability will be north of Whangarei by tomorrow.

I hope the front shifts away quickly tomorrow and we can start the weekend with some sunshine. :)
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I see Elton John is doing an outdoor concert in New Plymouth
NP airport at 7pm was reporting SE 41km/h, rain and 12C!
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sudden strong winds here now from the SE, and big temperature drop and rain to boot
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A comparison both Dunedin and Christchurch are sitting on about 570mm of rain so far this year.
Berkshire North of Te Anau west of Hokitika.
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Re: Subtropical rain North Island, from 5th Dec

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Cooler in Auckland this morning, just 13C but a dry Friday ahead by the looks.

Looking like the front will move back onto us Saturday evening with a rise in the dewpoints again. This front will bring thunderstorms back into upper Northland but Auckland will just see some rain by the looks. Looking like the NE wind will really get up on Sunday.


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Re: Subtropical rain North Island, from 5th Dec

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Huge dewpoint drop, 20C to 12C this morn.
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This system was originally meant to bring rain for several days, but MS have changes it to just showers now :roll:
Also was a mistake leaving a window open last night, so much for the forecast 17C, went down to 13C.
NZstorm wrote:dry Friday ahead by the looks.
I agree. Looks like a few light showers at the worst, can't see much accumulation in the rain gauge but we'll see if the sun comes out and heats things up a bit.
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Gale warning today?ItS not a SW...apart from a few gust late last night with the change its fairly calm here,just a light to moderate at most breeze from the SE.
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only 10.5oC DP a bit further south and west, here!
and it was 20 DP yesterday!
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Dewpoints are on the way back up and thunder looks likely for Northland later today. I suppose we can call it a NE surge. It will bring heavy showers into Auckland city tonight. Currently in Auckland a fine morn with 14C. :)
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nice CB tops to our north this morning :)
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Re: Subtropical rain North Island, from 5th Dec

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Yes, a bit of development can be seen out to the east of Northland this morn.
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