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Re: General August Weather

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Razor wrote:Wet since 2 pm here. Not puring just wet
Indeed, drizzlr started not long after my post. Quite thick in the last half hour
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Just been broken cloud here with the sun coming & going,even had few small hail stones about 1.00.But the weather is now starting to look a lot more threatening.
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Heavy rain here,radar building nicely from the east.
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Deano wrote:Heavy rain here,radar building nicely from the east.
Yer i noticed that coming in from the SE Deano,i was thinking it may have been close to producing thunder & Lightening going by the colour on the radar.
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Razor wrote:Not puring just wet
Unusual. I have a cat that purs but not when she is wet :D

Anyway, coming onto steady rain here now, from the constant drizzle that we have had for much of the day.

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Rather an uninspiring looking pattern to round the month off and leading into the next month,can read those wind roses off corresponding to the time of day/night like clockwork.
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Michael wrote:Rather an uninspiring looking pattern to round the month off and leading into the next month,can read those wind roses off corresponding to the time of day/night like clockwork.
I agree.
I think the month will churn to an unwisely thrinage of unlikely stubbs of clockwork rose patterns, this depending on the non-shrinking of the up coming dayhood.

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Besides a two or three tiny hail stones per squire meter yesterday afternoon there's no rain here at all from this system.....so far.
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Looks like the rain in south canterbury is bringing a bit of snow to tekapo.
Came over porters pass around 7pm last night and it was snowing on and of to the bottom of the pass with heavy rain from there to rangiora, was a stunning day on the coast with around 16C and sunny \:D/
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Appreas to be a bit of convection over ChCh right now, very dark to my N- NW here from Riccarton
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Razor wrote:Appreas to be a bit of convection over ChCh right now, very dark to my N- NW here from Riccarton
Agreed. Getting warm too.. Convection!
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Been one of the nicest days here in a long time 8) Bit too windy though
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I'm with you there David.. this morning was fabulous, until as you say the wind came up. It still is allright out there, if you are around the back of the house!
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Yes been no rain since early A.M unfortunately the male pollen things are landing like hail,plus it feels quite cold (they do it every spring)
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great day for the ground to dry out somewhat. that wind was perfect for it mixed with the sun.
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I too noticed those towering CU clouds this afternoon which were nearly the height they were last monday when we had thunder.
Just drove through a heavy shower on the way home mainly from it.
But 5:30pm light rain - 6:30pm steady rain - now nearly 7pm and its sitting on steady falls with breif bursts of heavy rain coming down and i mean in big drops too.
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There was this cloud building once the 'clagg' was disappearing.
....but then the low cloud moved in from the South and you couldn't see what was happening. :x

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I had a southwest today.

Michael, thankfully it wasnt autumn otherwise you'd have a mess!

btw where have you put your broom, you may need it soon enough.
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In spring we get those pollen things off the pine trees,look like grubs not many needles at this stage but the other things heaps yesterday.
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Looking at the radar there are showers just about on our doorstep, yet I can't see any dark clouds moving up from the south here just yet....
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Nev wrote:
Yes, we've just had our second highest king-tide for the year. Akld's evening tides last night (10pm) and the night before were a little higher than yesterday morn's. Gale-force winds were recorded in Akld's Waitemata yesterday evening, while Tiritiri's mean-winds were up to at least 78 km/h.
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Just found this video of it too, a bit late but may as well post the link :smile: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/weather/news/ ... _id=113208

I did not realise there had been as much water flowing across the road as the video shows.
(however, at Eastern Beach (near here) the tide had come up over the sand and onto the grass with plenty of debris)
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Think i got the gist took 5 mins to watch 40 seconds due to buffering.
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Left Christchurch this morning at 8am in partly cloudy skies with fine spells. Got through to around Waikari where we hit some rain and frequent showers continued until just before springs junction. Had a quick afternoon shower here in Westport . Hoping for an interesting day on Thursday here with the chance of some brief heavy rain. Making the trip back on Friday, hoping to catch some snow in the passes. would be a nice birthday present!
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A cloudy wet month for much of NZ . I think August was the worst of the 3 winter months for Auckland, very unsettled however Aucklands temperature average will be near a very respectable 12C :D and there was no frost around here.
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1C warmer than recent august temperature's here...but yes wet, with 190mm of rain
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