After a clear night and stars very clear the sky has almost completely covered in sc cloud within minutes and trees,cloud direction shows the promise of SW gales today
Location: Rainy Manurewa, Auckland - "City of Gales"
Unread postby Michael »
The "wind turbine" has just been turned up here now.The SW often blows constant not in gusts like other directions go
The best day for that is when the high cell is directly north of Cape Reianga then you get a light SW with 8/8 cloud cover(good weather to mow lawns etc in)
Michael wrote:Horrid spitty windblown rain has arrived as well to boot
I suspect that you actually love all that cruddy weather. You probably secretly rejoice whenever you spy a dark-looking cloud, or feel a gust of damp wind. You're not fooling anybody, Michael...!
Still a little cloud above the mountain, but it's mostly clear over Omarama and 18.8°. Only a very light breeze from the west. Another wonderful day in paradise...
Lovely fine day here in the Garden City but now the Ne has picked up, not awful yet, like Auckland's famous SW Gales,as the Ene hasn't kicked in. There isn't a front due overnight or in the morning.
Situ. looks good for inland thunderstorm development this week tho'
Situ. looks good for inland thunderstorm development this week tho'
There does look to be a chance of inland convection thunderstorms in the coming week. Very humid air is set to spread across the country and with hot temperatures developing inland, isolated thunderstorms look possible. The winds over the South island look to be NE enough to cart moisture inland there. But cb's (if they develop) will occur well inland.
Thunderstorms look possible over inland Otago/Southland Monday afternoon. But you are correct spwill, there may be frontal cloud which would prevent surface heating/convection.
NZstorm wrote:Thunderstorms look possible over inland Otago/Southland Monday afternoon. But you are correct spwill, there may be frontal cloud which would prevent surface heating/convection.
Well I wish we'd get some action. This almost-but-not-quite drizzle is boring! The blanket of low grey cloud means we can't get any observing in, yet there's no real rain to speak of to make the farmers happy, so everybody is cranky. There'll be blood running in the streets of Omarama before the week is out, you mark my words! Blood in the streets, I tells ya!
Location: Rainy Manurewa, Auckland - "City of Gales"
Unread postby Michael »
They havent quite started yet but as soon as a low moves across the BOP and out to the east we get terrific gales that wont ease until the high centres over NZ or moves to the east
NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:
Michael wrote:The Gales are starting to get ready to blow here now-When will this crappy weather end?
Michael wrote:They havent quite started yet but as soon as a low moves across the BOP and out to the east we get terrific gales that wont ease until the high centres over NZ or moves to the east
NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:
What gales?
JohnGaul
NZTS
Amazing the difference a wind change can make when it comes to temperature! That damp Nor Easter sure took the edge off. By rights, today should have been an absolute scorcher. Heck, it was even fine in Oamaru of all places! Yet Omarama hit a high of only 23.8° in the shade!
The southwester over the SI looked quite cold today; the 23.8C was quite a high temperature relative to the airmass and I'm sure the temp will drop away sharply this evening. Should be quite a chilly night in the inland valleys of the south tonight.
Not really a cold outbreak (freezing levels in today's mountain forecasts not particularly low), but quite a bit cooler (and less humid) than recent days in Chch, and with a gusty southerly for a time this morning. No more rain after last night's falls, just partly cloudy.
But you are correct spwill, there may be frontal cloud which would prevent surface heating/convection.
