General October Weather

[TonyT]

A few claps of thunder here with the heavy showers this morning, also heard in Rangiora too. A few further heavy showers nearer lunchtime and we ended up with almost 20mm for the day. Quite a lot wetter than in Chch.

[Razor]

A few claps of thunder here with the heavy showers this morning, also heard in Rangiora too. A few further heavy showers nearer lunchtime and we ended up with almost 20mm for the day. Quite a lot wetter than in Chch.

Amazing really. I could see it on my trainign run on the Port Hills this moring- looked to be very wet to the North, West, and East but we got about 0.2 of a mm here in Cracroft.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Had a good sleep-in this morning, never got up until a quarter-past.
Never heard any thunder from here, mind you I was asleep.
If there were any claps, they would be less awakening compared to the ominous rumblings from underneath that have been happening over the last month, here, or so

JohnGaul
NZThS

[Orion]

Red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning...

[Richard]

Had one of those moments because i slept through another one of those NW sheet lightening events on Fri night,early Sat morning.Talking with a farmer at the kids sports who lives 10km north of Culverden and he was saying he was out drilling a paddock at 11.00 - 1.00am trying to get it in before the southerly arrived,he recon it was one of the best horizontal lightening displays he's seen for years.....................snif....and i slept through it

Another typical morning here in NW grand central with a 40- 50km wind blowing could be an interesting day weather wise i hope

[NZstorm]

Models develop a low just to the north of NZ by Tuesday. Certainly starting to look like some windy wet weather for the north and east of the North Island this week.

GFS forecast 500mb heights/surface pres

[03Stormchaser]

Quick look at the models this morning, change to come thru about 1pm, there is the chance of thunder for us, will be costal and fast moving, hail producer storm, thinking it will be a gust front scenario. Colder upper air moves in later in the afternoon.

[snowstormwatcher]

Strong northwesterly has just arrived just gusted 60kph. Temp also shot up from 3 degrees at 8am to 12 now.

[Andy]

Light rain falling here temp 9 degrees and no wind.

[03Stormchaser]

I see invercargill is gusting to 77.8kmph and stewart island 83.4kmph at 10am this morning

[Andy]

Temp 7.7 here now and wind shifted to the south at 10-20 k's per hr. Still showery.

[Chris Raine]

Sthly change through Oamaru at 1000 am. Light rain from 10.30 am .Wind gusting 30kts

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Nothing on the horizon yet but the wind has dropped.
Would be nice to hear some rumbles from above instead of from below for a change but the likelihood looks very low

JohnGaul
NZThS

[Orion]

Here comes the southerly bringing dust in the distance; the nor'wester seems to have been pushing it away till now, NW was quite strong at times during mid-morning. Temperature was 16.2 half an hour ago, now 13.3deg. Obviously this is just the beginning...

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Clouds assembling now and gone SW. Violent temperature drop from 16.6C to 16.4C in a space of about 10minutes to a quarter of an hour

JohnGaul
NZThS

[snowstormwatcher]

Southerly arrived here about 15 mins ago dropped from 17 degrees back to 10 now. Rain radar looking good for a decent fall of rain.

[Weetbicks]

Can see some very dark clouds way off to the south here in chch central, but still completely calm here and quite nice, around 16 deg, such a shame that it is all about to turn pear shaped.

[Orion]

And 8.8deg. now, blowing light rain. What, by the way, is the difference between drizzle and fine or light rain? Thanks in advance.

[Weetbicks]

Wind has just changed in chch city to SW

[snowstormwatcher]

And 8.8deg. now, blowing light rain. What, by the way, is the difference between drizzle and fine or light rain? Thanks in advance.

I know drizzle is a rain rate of less than 0.5mm of rain per hour. Im not sure what the classifaction of light rain is at a guess id say probably between 0.5mm and 2mm per hour.

Just started spitting to rain here currently 7 degrees southery gusting to 40kph.

[FIREFROG]

wind just changed to SW here- temp still sitting on 17.2, gusting 37kph. Getting darker looking

[Michael]

I call drizzle the stuff when its like mist which comes and goes often but obviously not on a foggy day.We get it in northerly conditions here.
Light rain is that pesky stuff that continues and wets the ground properly and really is rain in effect also often gets heavier to "proper rain",We get these often in a warm front ie in those cold wet southerlies a bit like the one we are going to get.

And 8.8deg. now, blowing light rain. What, by the way, is the difference between drizzle and fine or light rain? Thanks in advance.

[03Stormchaser]

A gustfront tried to form as it approached the city, but never got its act on. Raining now and very gusty.

[Orion]

Thankyou, everyone! And it's now raining sufficiently well to be heard pattering on the roof, temp. 6.4degrees and still dropping.

[Nev]

What, by the way, is the difference between drizzle and fine or light rain?

Generally speaking, drizzle is precipitation that falls to the ground with droplets less than 0.5mm in diameter (larger drops are considered raindrops).

Light-drizzle has a fall rate to 0.3 mm per hour.
Moderate-drizzle has a fall rate from 0.3 to 0.5 mm per hour.
Heavy-drizzle has a fall rate greater than 0.5 mm per hour.

When precipitation equals or exceeds 1 mm per hour, it's usually rain, although true drizzle falling as heavily as 1.3 mm per hour has been observed.