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Latest ECMWF models show an early period of westerlies in the southern oceans :smile:

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Re: Spring Westerlies

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May have 'Equinoxical Gales' for the 21st/22nd?
Wouldn't that be lovely :D

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Think you mean 'Equinoctial Gales' John.
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Nev wrote:Think you mean 'Equinoctial Gales' John.

Thanx Nev :oops:

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YES. :smile: looking on target with some Equinoxical, sorry Equinoctial Gales. :cute:
Battern down the hatches, somewhere? :-s
Not very nice for the spring blossoms :(
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"Ricky wrote
Heading off topic here now but check out the huge activity West-NorthWest of Fiordland at the moment!! massive cbs showing on the sat pics and the lightning detector here is going crazy!
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NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:"Ricky wrote
Heading off topic here now but check out the huge activity West-NorthWest of Fiordland at the moment!! massive cbs showing on the sat pics and the lightning detector here is going crazy!
Lightning still going crazy according to Steven Grahams Lightning detector.
Should be some good thunderstorms onshore for the West Coast tomorrow as the front comes ashore
It is the Equinox tomorrow and what a way to celebrate =D> \:D/

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[i]On Saturday[/i] - NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:It is the Equinox tomorrow and what a way to celebrate =D> \:D/
Umm... I think Astronomical Equinox occurs on Tuesday 23rd at 3:44am NZST :?: ;)
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same thing here, lots of strikes (plotted way too close)
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Yep that is one extremely active front right through the Tasman..
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wow thats looking good. but i suppose it wont be like that when it hits the west coast of the north island???

The sat image from last night looked very nice with the huge cb just off the Fiordland coast and all the isolated cb's in australia.
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Sadly there looks to be too much high pressure around, so nothing for us. Looks to remain mainly anticyclonic for northern areas for the rest of the month going by some models.
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What a beautiful day once again here in CHCH once that morning thick high cloud burned off. You can really feel those sun rays now! Still sitting on 20 degrees. Looks like a long period of Northwesters around Christchurch and the Canterbury Area for possibly the next 5 - 7 days!! The whole area will be very close if not dried out by then! Warm dry conditions and all...i see weather watch site is saying temps could peak towards 30 in some isloated areas with the hot dry wind. I get the feeling now that this is going to be a long dry summer. Who would have said that couple weeks ago lol. Well maybe a long hot dry summer for the east coast but a quite wet one for Westland. They'll be getting the rains over the next week thats for sure.
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I would not use the current weather pattern as a guide for saying how the summer will end up being
generaly for NZ (apart from short term affects like NW warm winds), its the temperature of the sea in the tasman that incfluences our temperatures (and prevailing weather patterns)
currently the tasman sea , and around NZ (away from in shore) is a bit cooler than normal....but that can change in the next month...
being neither elnino or la nina at the moment, the summer will be "normal"....what ever that is!
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Some big rain clouds coming off the ranges and over rangiora now with a gale nw.
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Yes Melja spotted a CG strike come out of that shower cloud coming home about an hour ago, gale NW here at times with spots of rain.
MS have a low risk this evening with the pool moving up the west coast and possibly spilling into Canterbury.
Might be a few chances for thunder this week possibly even though Tues, early Wednesday's low is just above 1000hpa.
Fair way out but next weekend looks very interesting if it pulls off :-) .
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Just came home.
Yes, indeed looking very thundery along the Alps with glaciated thunder-heads tops drifting eastwards.
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Re: Spring Westerlies

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M/S 6 pm radar (and loop prior to it) showing something (t'storm?) moving up the coast...should be here in the next hour or two if it doesn't die out or go out to sea...
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Probably go out to sea, but on saying that there may be a flash or two off the Canterbury Bight tonight :smile:
I hope so.

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yes, looks like a heavy shower made it across the central Otago area intact (top half most likely), and is carrying on heading east, out to sea...must have been a good cell as it crossed over inland areas
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There was a brief thunderstorm which crossed into South Canterbury as the tracker showed a few strikes down that way.
Brief shower just clipped us but more over Rangiora way, few flashes observed further back into the shower cell.
Westerly has become a little cooler now, i believe it is called night time :smile: .
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There was a brief thunderstorm which crossed into South Canterbury
TStorm was out to sea NE of Timaru, I see there has been strikes in the High Country and down on the south coast.

September has been generally dry and sunny for Auckland and it looks like a Ridge will stay up this way for the rest of the week so quite a good month after all the wet weather of July and August.
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NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:May have 'Equinoxical Gales' for the 21st/22nd?
Wouldn't that be lovely :D

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Well, folks, its been blowing all day and should do so for the on coming week :lol:

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Daylight saving usually onsets the garbage weather back and Octobers of late has been colder than September,Has been quite a good September so far though.
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