General January Weather

[Manukau heads obs]

the models picked sunday would see this easterly trough come through a long way back
but M/S did not want to go with it for a while....hard to pick a winning horse!

[Area51]

I notice the auto weather stations on the South Island's West Coast are reporting a heat wave!

Hokitika peaked at 26C around midday, the wind has since swung from a light easterly to a seabreeze.
Westport peaked at a mighty 29C even after the seabreeze had arrived.
Nelson (not West Coast I know), has had 28C with a gusty east to southeast wind.

[Michael]

The winds going round now,it drops when shifting,then decide where it will sit,probably ene..

looks like the centre of the low is crossing Auckland/northern Coromandel at the mo... quite calm where I am in west Auckland... will be interesting to see what happens on the other side of this low...

[Nev]

I notice the auto weather stations on the South Island's West Coast are reporting a heat wave!

Hokitika peaked at 26C around midday, the wind has since swung from a light easterly to a seabreeze.
Westport peaked at a mighty 29C even after the seabreeze had arrived.
Nelson (not West Coast I know), has had 28C with a gusty east to southeast wind.

Yes, I see the entire West Coast hit the high 20's today, with temps up to 9C above normal for Jan, although technically they would have to sustain max-temps of 5C above normal for several days to constitute a 'heat-wave'.

I was also a little curious as to where yesterday's Akld TV-temp of 29C was taken and it appears it must've been from Whangaparaoa with 28.6C (Akld Aero was 27.8C, Whenuapai Aero 27.9C and Akld Uni's Ardmore site showed 27.4C).

[jamie]

Yes, i am a very happy lad now. very suprising rain actually. i was expecting no more than 20mm but we have now had 60mm. AWESOME! had the odd rumble of thunder today too.

[kaimaikid]

All I know is that it's 19.9 deg C here, dp of 18.7 deg C and humidity of 93% and it's darn uncomfortable

[Manukau heads obs]

yeah!
25mm of rain here overnight!! (in 2 hours)
real heavy too!
8mm/min peak, 480mm/hour peak, check out my graph
and might be more to come
and I see northland is getting rain now this morning too

[Nev]

Moved a few posts from this morn to 'General February Weather' thread.

[Manukau heads obs]

but the rain period for jan does not finish until 9am today

[Nev]

but the rain period for jan does not finish until 9am today

Yes sorry, I did wonder about that - shifted your post back to Jan thread?

[jamie]

yip still got 1 more hour untill 9am and im up to 80mm for the 23 hours so far. excellent.

wooaaa brian thats some darn heavy rain. i hope it woke you?

[David]

Awesome, we got 22mm here overnight
Quite heavy too, that mostly all fell between 12am and 3am!

[Manukau heads obs]

yup, woke me...was still in a stupor though...the wife heard it too...sounded real dense too
another station on the other side of the valley got the same total too
http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstat ... ?ID=MD0000

[Brassnz]

"Only" 22mm here in Laingholm, in the last 24hrs.

[Nev]

Fairly steady rain here now - 13.5mm to 9am (MTD 45.0mm), although I see Charle's Onetangi site, just 4.5 km to the east, had 44mm overnight to 9am, but they can often cop more out that way than we do.

[Nev]

I see Tauranga Aero recorded a staggering 120.0mm in the 24 hrs to 9am this morn, bringing its month's total to 178.2mm (Jan normal is 73.1mm).

Hamilton Aero also recorded 78.4mm (mtd 191.6mm), while Gisborne Aero recorded 41.6mm, plus 57.6mm the day before (mtd 171.0mm).

[03Stormchaser]

A Couple photos from the coast, had brilliant weather over at Lake Brunner.

[jamie]

nice pictures. really like that first one. looks violent in the mountains

[Nev]

Here's NIWA's preliminary January 2010 Climate Summary.

National average temp was 0.4C below the long-term January average. Highest daily T-max was 34.3°C recorded at Blenheim on the 1st and Westport recorded its highest ever Jan temp of 28.5C on the 20th since records began in 1937.

Also some pretty high rainfalls at the end of Jan in the central and eastern North Island. And of the main centres, Tauranga, Hamilton and Wellington had well over twice their normal rainfall...

[spwill]

Interesting to see 39mm fell at Alexandra on the 21 from thunderstorm activity, January average for Alexandra is 29mm. Cromwell getting 48mm from that storm. Was an interesting month for thunderstorms.

[David]

Also I was surprised to see from that brief heavy rain early morning 1st Feb that a few homes in Howick got flooded. Didn't think it was sustained for long enough for that.