General April Weather

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Fri 16/04/2010 01:21

Steady to heavy rain woke me up, so i zipped out to the rain gauge already 3.5mm has fallen.
Wind is actually breezy NW and i know this too because our deck facing NW is wet.

melja · Unread post by **melja** » Fri 16/04/2010 06:54

4.8MM here overnight and it cool on 6C.

Manukau heads obs · Fri 16/04/2010 07:09

usefull showers here

snowstormwatcher · Unread post by **snowstormwatcher** » Fri 16/04/2010 08:19

Fine here this morning there was a slight frost first thing this morning overnight low of 1.5 degrees. No rain here overnight.

CHCH Weather Chaser · Fri 16/04/2010 09:23

snowstormwatcher wrote:Fine here this morning there was a slight frost first thing this morning overnight low of 1.5 degrees. No rain here overnight.

Got 7.5mm here overnight, much more than thought. Just as well as first measured rainfall for April and now 110mm to date this year. The outlook period looks dry as a bone once again so appreciated. For once we got some rain here, last couple changes snowstormwatcher has been getting the rain or showers and it has been completely missing here.

Manukau heads obs · Fri 16/04/2010 09:44

110mm to date this year

124mm year to date here
Ricky in central auckland only 90mm year to date!

normally by now the auckland area would be approaching 285mm or so year to date by now!

Vertigo · Unread post by **Vertigo** » Fri 16/04/2010 09:55

Manukau heads observer wrote:usefull showers here

Yes, it was rather nice to need my umbrella this morning. Lovely in fact.

David · Unread post by **David** » Fri 16/04/2010 15:53

Metservice going for a low of 5 in Auckland tonight. Maybe the heater will be needed for the 1st time this Autumn

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Fri 16/04/2010 17:59

Metservice going for a low of 5 in Auckland tonight.

Metservice going for a low of 7 in Queenstown , cloudy skies overnight down there. Dry cool air to move across Auckland overnight with clear skies. I see dewpoints in Wellington are only 2C, around 0C in Christchurch

Looks like a rather stable W/ SW flow for the week ahead, waiting for the rains to arrive here.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Fri 16/04/2010 18:24

Metservice going for a low of 5 in Auckland tonight.

5C looks a bit low to me, could happen in the outer suburbs though.

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Fri 16/04/2010 18:32

10mm overnight here, rain was off and on heavy at times overnight.
Someone at work said they didnt get rain until around 5am, so obviously very isolated falls.
I also heard on the radio this morning somebody had reported a clap of thunder in the Timaru area around midnight during heavy rain.
This rain will keep the fire risk safe for now and with more showers forecast for tomorrow night and Monday so we can only hope for more rain.
Light frost tonight perhaps?

snowstormwatcher · Unread post by **snowstormwatcher** » Fri 16/04/2010 20:12

Looking like a good frost here overnight provided the high cloud stays away already down to 4.5 degrees.

snowstormwatcher · Unread post by **snowstormwatcher** » Fri 16/04/2010 20:29

CHCH Weather Chaser wrote:
snowstormwatcher wrote:Fine here this morning there was a slight frost first thing this morning overnight low of 1.5 degrees. No rain here overnight.
Got 7.5mm here overnight, much more than thought. Just as well as first measured rainfall for April and now 110mm to date this year. The outlook period looks dry as a bone once again so appreciated. For once we got some rain here, last couple changes snowstormwatcher has been getting the rain or showers and it has been completely missing here.

Christchurch is usually recives a lot more rain from the southwesterly than we do as we are sheltered from the southwesterly we tend to get most of our rain from the south southeast. So far this year we have had 187.5mm of rain which is slightly above average.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sat 17/04/2010 06:50

Metservice going for a low of 5 in Auckland tonight.

Ive got 9.1C here at daybreak. The 5C prediction didn't look right! Ardmore Airport has 5C but thats rural.

David · Unread post by **David** » Sat 17/04/2010 07:07

NZstorm wrote:
Metservice going for a low of 5 in Auckland tonight.
Ive got 9.1C here at daybreak. The 5C prediction didn't look right! Ardmore Airport has 5C but thats rural.

Yes, you were right...the low here was 6.8Â°C.

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Sat 17/04/2010 07:09

Wasnt really that cold here.

Tornado Tim · Unread post by **Tornado Tim** » Sat 17/04/2010 07:42

2.1Â°C The Low here In Matangi, Unfortunately cloud cover stopped the temp from going down further.

Manukau heads obs · Sat 17/04/2010 07:48

low of 10.9C here with alot of cloud that came in and a wind that stayed onshore until 4am or so

Nev · Unread post by **Nev** » Sat 17/04/2010 08:33

NZstorm wrote:Ive got 9.1C here at daybreak. The 5C prediction didn't look right! Ardmore Airport has 5C but thats rural.

This Admore site has 3.4C at 5:23am and I think Whenuapai was close to 5C this morn.
But yes, 9.2C here also at 7:10am and about 9C at Akld Aero.

Manukau heads observer wrote:124mm year to date here
Ricky in central auckland only 90mm year to date!

normally by now the auckland area would be approaching 285mm or so year to date by now!

Yes, a couple of reasonable dumps this month have bumped Akld Aero's ytd rainfall from 56mm to 87mm - so no longer the driest site in the region.

Just 72mm here so far this year. Also very dry on the North Shore - ytd 75mm for Albany and 76mm for Whangaparaoa.

Lukemyster · Unread post by **Lukemyster** » Sat 17/04/2010 12:01

Looks like the MS in off on some of their predictions today. Some centres are already off by 6degrees. Looks to be much warmer than 17C with the NW flow coming through. MS has 18C for Timaru, yet its 24degrees.

Weetbicks · Unread post by **Weetbicks** » Sat 17/04/2010 15:53

Gorgeous day ! 23 here in the city

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Sat 17/04/2010 17:16

Gorgeous day alright, 21 here

DT-NZ · Unread post by **DT-NZ** » Mon 19/04/2010 07:17

Morning, currently 13.5C out with a slight SW breeze - mild really, not feeling the cold yet.

The skies overhead in this region presently all thank's to the Rusty Anchor backpackers.

Doubtless Bay webcam
http://www.rustyanchor.co.nz/index.aspx?id=13

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Mon 19/04/2010 07:21

thanks for camera pic,looks like here currently though its warmer on 16c.

Manukau heads obs · Mon 19/04/2010 08:04

0.5mm showers here this morning...

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