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Re: General October Weather

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NZstorm wrote:Tomorrow (Sunday) should be a slightly warmer day for Auckland as we lose the SW. Flow goes around to light NE and hopefully its too early in the season for sea breeze convergence cloud. A weak upper trough out to the north of NZ will possibly thicken the high cloud a bit.
I see the sea breezes have developed, SW at the Airport with 16C, NNE here with 17C. Might struggle to reach 20C here today with that sea breeze (I'm not inland enough)
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Re: General October Weather

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Hmm... the average max-temp from a dozen 'official' sites yesterday would appear to be about 18.7C.

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Akld min/max Temps (°C) for Oct 23, 2010
Warkworth       6.5  19.6
Whangaparaoa    9.5  20.5
Albany Ews      7.7  19.8
Kumeu           4.6  18.8
Whenuapai       5.9  19.1
Henderson       8.5  20.9
Khyber Pass     9.7  18.5
Onehunga       11.0  17.5
Mangere         9.6  17.2
Wiri            8.9  17.3
Auckland Aero   9.2  17.2
Pukekohe        5.2  17.7
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Re: General October Weather

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20º here again with a light breeze from the .. nowhere now.
Love it (just came out of Pukke tho, seemed a lot hotter in there, I blame urban heat island effect.)

{ED:} If that Pukke site is the new official one, its actually at Puni, elevated slightly higher than Pukke central, I tried to have the setup here but missed out by a matter of hours, should read the local paper more often.
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Re: General October Weather

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Hi Dale, the above figure is actually from a NIWA EWS at Crop & Food Research, about 2 km W of Pukekohe Central and about 88m asl. Not sure where MetService's site is and I believe WeatherWise also have a professional site out there.

P.S. Have you finally dusted off your PWS? :mrgreen:

Currently 19.9C here again.
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Re: General October Weather

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19.8C here even with a light sea breeze and thin high cloud
nice :)
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Re: General October Weather

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Sunshine just appearing, high cloud, nor'wester has strengthened; 22.4degrees.
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High cloud is starting to move out east here. Currently 24 degrees with a light northerly.
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Got to 24degrees here also, now falling back again, to 22.6 at the moment. Quite pleasant, if breezy NW. 34% humidity, which was 42% earlier if I remember correctly.
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Re: General October Weather

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Dunno where our sun has gone, overcast and around 20 deg. Temp has gone up about 3 degrees in the last hour with the wind turning NW, hopefully this cloud will push off and we will get a nice evening.
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Well another nice day here, but again an unimpressive high of only 19.7C :rolleyes:
High cloud has increased as you suggested NZStorm ;)
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High of 23C before the NW came through at lunch time,then dropped back to 20 for the afternoon,cold start to the day with an overnight low of 1C.
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Nice NW arch over the plains and chch now, which means we may get a nice blast of sun for 20 minutes before sunset as consolation for an overcast day :)
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I decided at the last minute to race out to the north end of the airport on my bike, battled a good NW'er to get there in time but made it, and took some pics of a great sunset, here are just a few, link to the rest : http://www.flickr.com/photos/weetbicks/ ... 103816565/

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Weetbicks wrote:I decided at the last minute to race out to the north end of the airport on my bike, battled a good NW'er to get there in time but made it, and took some pics of a great sunset, here are just a few, link to the rest : http://www.flickr.com/photos/weetbicks/ ... 103816565/
Very nice pictures Weetbix!
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Tornado Tim wrote: Very nice pictures Weetbix!
Yer neat alright =D>
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the good ole canty flying saucers
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Not my photo but sent to me from a friend, Culverden tonight.
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03Stormchaser wrote:Not my photo but sent to me from a friend, Culverden tonight.
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I know that road :D yer been a great sky all round
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Great pictures! There was a pretty nice sunset on one of the Nelson webcams too :smile:
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Slightly "grungy" version of an HDR panorama I took of the sunset from Curraghs Road.
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Skywatcher wrote:Slightly "grungy" version of an HDR panorama I took of the sunset from Curraghs Road.
Wow... =D> _b
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Just hit 20 here and still only the morning, nice 8)
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Re: General October Weather

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Yeah, reached the maxima around 11am.. got some cloud cover now but its still damn nice!
{ED:} PS, fantastic pics by the cantabrians... !
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Amazing day here today. Blue dome skies and 23 degrees with a light southerly breeze.
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check out the MS chart for 1pm next Saturday, almost 1050hPa SE of NZ!
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Has hit 21.8C here today, easily the warmest so far. A bit surprising considering we have a NE sea breeze
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