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Re: General April Weather

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They used to use that term all the time especially given if embedded fronts,usually when depressions are to the south,also the weather when cloudy used to be called "fair" and winds were known as fresh or strong rather than breezy.
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I would not be at all surprised to see 30 degrees somewhere today
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Re: General April Weather

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Once again just stunning outside. Very warm, 24 degrees currently and rising. Once again not a breath of wind out there all morning with baking sunshine.

Now up to 26.2 degrees with a light NNW now. Metservice may have got one right today :-$
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na they said 26. Its going higher. It always seems to exceed their expectations these days!
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Re: General April Weather

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Michael wrote:...also the weather when cloudy used to be called "fair" and winds were known as fresh or strong rather than breezy.
Fair or breezy are not terms generally used in meteorological forecasts, as they're too subjective. Fair basically means a lack of extremes, e.g. not too hot, not too cold, not too sunny, not too cloudy, etc.
In nautical terms, fair-weather means a lack of wind. Fresh or strong however have specific definitions on the universally accepted Beaufort Wind Scale (as does the term, gale, often flippantly used by a certain user here) and are still used in everyday forecasts both in NZ and around the world.
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Razor wrote:I would not be at all surprised to see 30 degrees somewhere today
Did see it on Rangiora townclock/temp gauge :crazy: :crazy:
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Raining here this morning currently 8 degrees.
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Overcast with some showers at times here. temp 9.3 degrees
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What a month for us in Marlborough !!!
We hit 27.3 yesterday - up from a -.03 low at 6.30am ish - thats Blenheim reading from Cheeryland orchard.
Streams that give water supply to batches in the Sounds are at lowest (some completly dry) levels ever seen.
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Light to moderate rain has been falling since about 1pm, at a slow rate though only 2.4mm in the gauge so far.
Here's hoping it picks up abit more _b .
Edit: Half an hour later rain has become more moderate than light now, and up to 4.5mm now.
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Been raining here 10am. Up to 9mm here so far. Looks like only another hour or so as the band is starting to speed up and head north quickly and also moving more out to sea. Northeast breeze here now too. Longer period of rain today than i suspected. Tomorrows NNW flow, should it become gusty will dry things out quick and wont allow as much absorption. We will still need a couple more days like this too help turn all the brown green but a drought not looking so likely anymore. In the past couple of weeks rocks at the bottom of the avon river have become visible in some parts due to such lack of water. Today should freshen things up and offer some grass growth but will take more rain to get further down into the soil. A good 17 degrees colder today lol, only 10 degrees most the day
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Stopped raining here a few hours ago we receved 10.5mm of rain been quite cool as well high of just 9 degrees. Looking like some more wet weather early next week.
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gees you people are lucky getting a good rain like that, nearly 1mm here so far
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Its been a lovely, rainy all day, here in West Melton. :smile:
Nice to have grey skies for a change. :D
First lot of decent stuff for ages. 8.7mm to 5pm today.

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I think we missed the first event only 2.5mm to 9am and 0.7 since then .Need lots more to break this drought
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A well waited 10+mm for most parts of Christchurch today :yum: Although i hope the clouds clear early for tomorrows anzac service. The next change is looking like another 2days rain mon/tues :yum:

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warm, muggy day here today, still 21 deg outside with a comfortable NNE breeze, makes you want to just sit outside & relax with a nice cold brewsky, which is exactly what I am doing :)

Might be in for a nice sunset here too
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Can see occasional distant lightning flashes in cloud way to the west in TC :smile:

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Some concentrated lightning on the Si west cost :)
Perhaps thats what your seeing John.
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Very warm night here too. 20C right now. And 24C in Kaikoura:O
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Morning, awoke to brilliant red skies - overnight min 16.4 - currently 17.6 out - no wind, mild and warm.
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Great looking cloud layers up there at the moment - dark black clouds looking NE.
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Some much needed rain here 13mm so far and 10 degrees.
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Sneaky little low level South Wester here in ChCh, low level cloud prsent but still a prominent NW arch to the west
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Widespread reports of some quite significant flooding in Southland all morning. Schools shut and farmland buried as well as burst rivers and several road closures.
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