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No heatwaves to start October, in fact gfs suggests unseasonably cold over the country next week as an intense anticyclone south of Tasmania dredges up polar air for NZ. Looks like the return to winter kicks off over the weekend with snow looking possible to 400m from Fiordland to south Otago.

I saw that, looks positively cold Sunday night. I thought September usually saw the last of the truely cold Antartic air. Lets hope the cold air has other effects enjoyable to our weather watching.

A showery morning to start off October here....hoping it will clear shortly

I saw that, looks positively cold Sunday night. I thought September usually saw the last of the truely cold Antartic air. Lets hope the cold air has other effects enjoyable to our weather watching.

Looks like a similar situation to that about a month ago, when a southeasterly brought snow as far north as the tops of the Kaimais. (might want to get your binoculars out)
Last year, the last Antarctic blast over NZ was in November.

Lets hope the cold air has other effects enjoyable to our weather watching.

looks like dry air will push up over NZ

Hi from Upper Hutt....
7/8 cu/sc here at the moment.... no wind to speak of ..ppp=1003.4mb ... Northerly expected to freshen later with a sw change likely late tomorrow morning. September was quite a month. Trees are mostly all out in leaf now ..Its good to see ...
Steve

looks like the sw change will be mid afternoon of Friday here now...

wont be much in it though rawdon

wow Tim you really got some rain. must have been hit and miss stuff because my parents only got like 2mm.

Well the sky cleared abit and I was able to see what was happening above the base of these clouds... pic taken 30mins ago... currently 18.8 C out it was 18.3 C half an hour ago...

change that it is now 19.1 C out...

Scatterd weak CU about being capped off at a certain level and shearing over from the strong westerly high up.
Earlier on it was a strong gusty westerly now its light W-SW.
A few showers now appearing from these clouds here and there, must be the passage of the first cold front.
If you want to see some flurries tomorrow you might not have to go far maybe Cashmere hill suburbs.

These are the skies outside @ the moment looking NW, winds have picked up slightly with an ocassional strong norwesterly gust - currently 18.0 C out - still warm.

Had a few brief spots of rain from a shower that got torn up by the returning westerly, and looks like a hail shower out to sea with some nice long white shafts and a rainbow.

Some dark clouds about outer Banks Peninsula - 5pm radar confirms showers just offshore.

Might be a cold month, like July.

JohnGaul
NZThS

What a stunning day today, inspite of the very light breezy NE the temperature got to 19C just after 3pm.
Its still hovering between 17-18C now .
I sense summer and the smell of cooking Bangers on the BBQ are getting closer

TVNZ gave Auckland 19c today,it certainly didnt feel that here where was it taken?

I got 19° here today. It has been nice having some dry weather and sunshine which lasts more than 1 day!

Was quite pleasent though,harldly any wind to speak of and mild overnight here,guess in Howick there was less cloud,sun didnt appear till about 2.30 here.

A sunny 18.8°C here and Ricky has 18.9°C. The TV temps supplied by MetService are often higher than Akld Aero - possibly an average of Akld Aero, Whenuapai and Whangaparaoa.

Getting warm here, 21.2°C atm and rising, can definitely feel it.

clocked over 1000mm for the year today. a little bit behind Tim. he must be hogging the rain as he is about 20mm ahead if i remember right.

Its been a bit of a dull October really to be honest cold/ rainy/wet days bring on the warmer months and warm nights i say.
Hasn't been al that warm today with Cool S blowing through and drizzly showers.

cheers

We have been lucky today,Warm 18-19c today,light wind mainly S and wall to wall blue since a mid morning shower passed over.