General November Weather

[Tornado Tim]

Yes very Warm last night. Got to a low of 15°C @ 13 mins past midnight.

[Nev]

Only down to 16.8C here at 7:22 this morn - dull and overcast.

Interesting report in the Otago Daily Times this morn...

Taieri bakes in record November high
Temperatures soared on the Taieri yesterday, with the temperature at Dunedin airport reaching a record November high of 30.5degC at 1pm. ...
MetService forecaster Sarah Sparks said the Taieri's weather was a result of a northwesterly air flow. "You're in a really warm pocket of air at the moment."
A northeasterly wind meant Dunedin's temperature only reached a high of 21degC. ...

Hmm... the current Nov record for Dunedin Aero is 31.0C, set on Nov 15, last year.
(Musselburgh's record is 31.3C set on Nov 3, 1987)

[tunster]

There was a TTx of 31.1C at Dunedin Aero yesterday.
Today, Kawerau has hit 25.4C.

[spwill]

Very little in the way of sunshine for Auckland lately, looks like a change in weather pattern next week, warmer and humid for the North, hopefully some sunshine in the mix.


Currently muggy 18C dewpoints, mizzel.

[Weetbicks]

Here are some pics I took last night out by the airport

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[Weetbicks]

Couple more

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[NZstorm]

Suprise suprise another grey day in Auckland. Makes working outside easier so I'm not complaining really.
The GFS has been running with some instability over the East Cape region for the last few days but I find it hard to take modeled instability seriously when the 500mb temps are around -10C. We can certainly get the thunderstorms over the upper North Island with 500mb temps -13C but for anything warmer it is such a struggle.

[DT-NZ]

Morning, well another humid, dull boring grey overcast day out ~ though the wind is nice and helps keep the heat down a tad bit, currently 25.5 C out - take care.

[carrot]

Nice pictures, you got better views out there then what I could see from town.

[DT-NZ]

Nice pics there btw Weetbicks

[tunster]

29.7C at Kawerau is so far the highest TTx for today.


30.3C now reached at Kawerau.

[Tornado Tim]

24.6°C here with a very muggy DP of 20°C, RH of around 76%.
This makes you think why cant there be some very cold air above us, LOL

[Manukau heads obs]

we have had low cloud to nearly sea level here, keeping things on the cool side
only 17C here

[jamie]

STICKY here. Its going to be a taste of summer to come. Will be cooking in the shed tonight. Not complaining though! 22.7C / 19.1DP

[Nev]

Sun's breaking through here now - DP was 19C but dropping - 21.3C and rising

Also thanks tunster - yes, new record for Dunedin Aero yesterday by just 0.1C.
I think Kawerau has reached at least 32.0C in Nov before - not sure what their record would be though.

[Tornado Tim]

Its seems the further south of me is getting even hotter.....
Arthurs Site in Tokoroa: http://tokoroa.dyndns.org/ is reporting 27.4°C !
I got a high of 26.2°C @ 2.36 PM, now back to 23.9°C.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Whakatane now on 32 degrees at 4pm!! Whats their record high? That cant be far off for Whakatane can it? Especially for November! Nice day here, cloudless day. 20 degrees with 35km/h ENE freshening.

[Michael]

Very little in the way of sunshine for Auckland lately, looks like a change in weather pattern next week, warmer and humid for the North, hopefully some sunshine in the mix.


Currently muggy 18C dewpoints, mizzel.

Bring it on! Dont care even if it buckets down as long as we get rid of this wind.(direction).

[tgsnoopy]

LOL, I think there might just be something wrong with this image



It just seems odd that the larger area is high risk and the smaller area inside the high risk area is low risk... But then what do I know?

[David]

The whole larger area is high risk for normal thunderstorms, with the smaller area indicated having an additional low risk that any thunderstorm which occurs may be severe

Reached 21º here today, falling short of the 23 forecast.

[Nev]

Whakatane now on 32 degrees at 4pm!!

Not sure about that? I think you must mean Kawerau, which is a fair way inland and SW of Whakatane. MetService had 26C for Whakatane at 4pm, although Tauranga Aero apparently got to 29C today, so possible earlier on I guess. Don't have complete records for Whakatane, but it did reach 29.7C on Nov 24, 1997 and Whakatane Aero recorded 30.5C on Nov 24, 1997.

[Michael]

From TRNs W.W.
"Today's highest temperature was 32 at Whakatane, Kawerau"

Whakatane now on 32 degrees at 4pm!!
Not sure about that? I think you must mean Kawerau, which is a fair way inland and SW of Whakatane.

[Philip Duncan]

Hey Nev - MetService told us both Whakatane and Kawerau reached 32 today.
These are direct from M/S: http://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/content/t ... s32deg-bop

Cheers!

[Myself]

Whakatane now on 32 degrees at 4pm!!

Not sure about that? I think you must mean Kawerau, which is a fair way inland and SW of Whakatane. MetService had 26C for Whakatane at 4pm, although Tauranga Aero apparently got to 29C today, so possible earlier on I guess. Don't have complete records for Whakatane, but it did reach 29.7C on Nov 24, 1997 and Whakatane Aero recorded 30.5C on Nov 24, 1997.

I clicked on Whakatane earlier and the 4PM observation said 30C, with NW wind at 15km/h. 1010hPa, 47% RH.

Kind of eerie the stats you post....November 24th......strong El Nino......followed by legendarily hot summer?

Wellington probably will be close to 160 sunshine hours by the end of today. Still then need 50 hours in the next 6 days to be close to average. Earlier in the month that would not have worried me! And if things go to plan tomorrow, we could rack up 10+ hours....

[spwill]

I see some storms have developed on the Gisborne Ranges.