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Re: Cool end to October

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03Stormchaser wrote:How high is waddington above sea level??
About 290m I think?

P.S. Very blustery here this morn - Tiritiri reporting 70 km/h mean-winds at 9am.
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Don't I know it. I was on my bike heading into work when it struck, hail hurts!
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Was a photo in the Southland Times of a funnel cloud just off SH1 near Dacre, about 20km east of here.
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Re: Cool end to October

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Cleared up in in Chch now, though MetService is forecasting coastal showers to continue here through tomorrow.
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It seems a few weak thunderstorms have developed off the coast of Tauranga, The Kaimais would have helped push the air up.
Update: man the air is dry, I have a DP of 2°C, RH of 40%
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12mm of rain fell mainly overnight, it was quite steady rain around 11pm-1am with strong gusty Southerly winds.
Occasional showers today with a bit of sleet mixed in and a brief hail shower around 1pm.
It has since stopped precipitating but cloud has increased again, looks like showers will return tonight but clearing by tomorrow i would say.
Watch out for more icy showers tonight, you can see some showers just entering south Canterbury on the 5pm radar with the clearing showers to the north.
Lots of snow looking inland this morning down very low on the plains, i would say visable to about 200m.
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Love to know what the speed of the wind is,Harbour totally full of waveletts,Whistling constant now,pineneedles blowing upwards.Windiest in at least 6 months???
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Re: Cool end to October

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Sunny 15C through the afternoon, cool in that strong SW wind.
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Re: Cool end to October

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Nev wrote:
03Stormchaser wrote:How high is waddington above sea level??
About 290m I think?

P.S. Very blustery here this morn - Tiritiri reporting 70 km/h mean-winds at 9am.
Yep, about 300m :>

Lost power all day again today, last night's 6hr outage was due to a tree being blown over but not sure what today's was all about :-(

Dry and very cold here at the mo.
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Tornado Tim wrote:It seems a few weak thunderstorms have developed off the coast of Tauranga, The Kaimais would have helped push the air up.
Update: man the air is dry, I have a DP of 2°C, RH of 40%
Blast. I've been down to Raukokore and across to Galatea today. Never saw a thing. Pretty windy day, but only the odd shower.
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Was actually light snow shower where i was in Sydnem this morning, was grapuel shower that turned into light flakes.
Got very cold! Should be clearing tomorrow with nice sunny spells, frosts sat morning i should expect.
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mikestormchaser wrote:Was actually light snow shower where i was in Sydnem this morning, was grapuel shower that turned into light flakes.
Got very cold! Should be clearing tomorrow with nice sunny spells, frosts sat morning i should expect.
That's Sydenham, and graupel, Mike :rolleyes: ,Y generation !!!

Yeah, I had the same this morning at 8 in Opawa. Was more like small snow flakes, turned to rain at about 8:10.
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Re: Cool end to October

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Wow, the temp dropped a heap overnight. Went to bed with about 19 in and 15 out and it dropped to 5 out and only 14 in. Brr.

Looking forward to my trip on the Trans Alpine train on Sunday just after this latest snow, please let some of the lower lying stuff still be around by then.
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5.4°C here at 7am - up around 10°C now and much calmer than yesterday.

And yes Michael, winds would've been tipping gale-force on both harbours throughout yesterday -
63 km/h recorded on the Waitemata at 6pm.
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Unseasonably cold here this morning after the wind dropped to zero overnight - low of 2.4°C!
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was a very gusty SSW yesterday afternoon alright
the average was not all that high, but big gusts (40 knots) that went well inland
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tgsnoopy wrote:Wow, the temp dropped a heap overnight. Went to bed with about 19 in and 15 out and it dropped to 5 out and only 14 in. Brr.

Looking forward to my trip on the Trans Alpine train on Sunday just after this latest snow, please let some of the lower lying stuff still be around by then.
Wont be any low lying snow around sorry but you may get to see some good old NW mountain rain and on the coast if you are going that far.
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tgsnoopy wrote:Looking forward to my trip on the Trans Alpine train on Sunday just after this latest snow, please let some of the lower lying stuff still be around by then.
Have a nice time! Wave to Arthur's Pass for me! If you stop long enough there, try and see the Devil's Punchbowl waterfall... well worth it!
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Interesting wave cloud forms extending away from Thunderstorm corner, this evening. :smile:

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My mates parents drove down from Alexandra to Lawrence today, so we had quite a drive down to catch up with them. I guess I should have come clean and organised it officially instead of doing it on the sly.

We've got through to Roxborgh where we are in a motel for the night. We were told by the barmaid at the Lawrence pub there was a 24 hr servo here. Not.

Must remember, the servo's here close really early.

There was snow visible on the port hill's and lots of what I consider reasonably low snow on the alps.

All going well we will head through to Greymouth via Haast Pass tomorrow. Might detour via Queenstown I feel.

Not sure what else is on the cards, but we will get the most out of the trip as is our usual technique.
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Niice pics there John just with all the colours and all
Nice start to the day here, but wasnt long until the clouds and few showers came in around 8am.. typical just when i start painting outside. :rolleyes: :smile:
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Yeah the day started off nice ramming in posts for a compost bay, then a shower came through just on morning smoko at 10am.
Apart from that it was a good day in the dappled sunshine :B , wind turned more SE by mid afternoon.
I like the look of those clouds John, it looks abit like a giants ribs and nearly the size of those ribs you had at the lone star :lol: .
I think you called for a doggy bag in the end didnt you :mrgreen: .
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Manukau heads observer wrote:was a very gusty SSW yesterday afternoon alright
the average was not all that high, but big gusts (40 knots) that went well inland
Yes, you're right. Stuffed-up on that earlier comment about gales on both harbours :o - the 63 km/h mean-wind at 6pm was for Tiritiri while the Waitemata reading was 54 km/h, although winds at Mokohinau in the outer Gulf peaked later with gusts to 80 km/h. Winds exceeding gale-force funnelled through the Manukau Heads throughout the day, but max-winds at Auckland Aero, which is exposed to SW'ers, were only 51 km/h, gusting to 76 km/h (41 knots) - quite a high wind/gust ratio though.
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it was even more gusty here
we were averaing only around 15 knots but getting gusts to 40 knots (the coastal cliffs accentuate the gustiness)
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Beautiful start to the day here with 13 outside, not a breath of wind and blue dome skies! Good change :D
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