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I see it got down to minus 32C in Oban, in Half Moon Bay in Stewart Island/Rakiura this evening.
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NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: Wed 08/01/2025 22:37 I see it got down to minus 32C in Oban, in Half Moon Bay in Stewart Island/Rakiura this evening.
Even colder today at minus 37C.
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NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: Thu 09/01/2025 14:51
NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: Wed 08/01/2025 22:37 I see it got down to minus 32C in Oban, in Half Moon Bay in Stewart Island/Rakiura this evening.
Even colder today at minus 37C.
There'll be 'bergs and pack-ice in Foveaux Strait at that rate :lol:
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I see an interesting article about the use of AI in weather forecasting:

A 15-day AI Hurricane Forecast? Not Yet, But…

https://loosecannon.substack.com/p/a-15 ... dium=email
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I see it is fifty years since the flood disaster at Peel Forest on January 28, 1975, which took the lives of four children:
...On January 28, 1975 the children — aged three to 12 — were killed after the banks of the Kowhai Stream in Blandswood burst and their holiday home was destroyed.

Newspaper reports at the time said a torrential downpour — which produced 171mm (17.1cm) of rainfall in 24 hours — resulted in the Kowhai Stream being dammed by landslide debris.

When the dam burst, about 6pm, the wave of water and debris was too much for the stream’s banks to handle.

The Taskers’ holiday home was the first to feel the impact.

The wall of water, mud, rocks, and tangled vegetation had hit the building; instantly smashing the house to pieces.

The water lifted the Taskers’ car 3m into the air and wedged it in a tree.

The children who died were Jeffrey Richmond Tasker, 6, Julia Christine Tasker, 4, and Leighton Roger Tasker, 3, from Mayfield, along with their young uncle Garry Charles Woolley, 12, of Westerfield.
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ODT: Flash flood something to remember

Rest in peace, children.

also, from Australian Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub:

https://knowledge.aidr.org.au/media/380 ... -01-07.pdf
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Thanks for the above. I was going to post this on the general thread but you got ahead of me. Thanks for posting. :smile:
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NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: Tue 28/01/2025 12:54 Thanks for the above. I was going to post this on the general thread but you got ahead of me. Thanks for posting.
I happened to be on holiday, staying with family at Ruapuna when this happened. 
I remember the Hinds River at Mayfield being in flood, although at Ruapuna/Mayfield there was not the cloudburst that happened in the hills, it was just a wet day.
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II see that Jeff Northcote has gone back to his original format for his weather station in Hillmorton.
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I see or I heard on the news that January was the "Hottest January recorded" ! How can that be with all the snow and freezing weather over Canada and the USA, aslo Europe plus the cold January we had here.?
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NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: Thu 06/02/2025 23:30 I see or I heard on the news that January was the "Hottest January recorded" ! How can that be with all the snow and freezing weather over Canada and the USA, aslo Europe plus the cold January we had here.?
There's always going to be exceptions the rule, but overall January temps were well above normal in NE and NW Canada and Alaska, while both Europe and Australia recorded their 2nd ever warmest January.

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This NDJ period was a fraction cooler than last season.
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NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: Thu 06/02/2025 23:30 I see or I heard on the news that January was the "Hottest January recorded" ! How can that be with all the snow and freezing weather over Canada and the USA, aslo Europe plus the cold January we had here.?
Note that this conclusion is only via one of the several (many?) different global datasets. By comparison for example, the UAH global lower tropospheric temperatures (measured across the entire earth's surface via microwave sensors from satellites) shows an anomaly for Jan 2025 of +0.46deg (compared with the 1990-2020 mean), versus a warmer +0.80deg for January 2024.
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