NZ Weather Forum

I posted this in the wrong thread, sorry:
cant see any rain for the upper NI for the next 10 days....
countryside starting to get a summer dry look already around here and summer has not even started yet (calendar wise) !
sure hope La nina delivers the goods Jan/Feb (should do!)

Might be another 25C day here, just waiting for the morning cloud to burn off again. Looks like it might clear soon.

Low cloud has gone now which two hours earlier than yesterday..oh its going to be hot.

Waiting for a Low to come down from the Coral Sea. I see Auckland Airport has had only 22mm for Nov.
City folk love this weather pattern .

spwill wrote:Waiting for a Low to come down from the Coral Sea. I see Auckland Airport has had only 22mm for Nov.
City folk love this weather pattern .

Country folk like me like it too because i have all the water i need 3 m down

"28 Nov: As it's close to the end of the month, I had a look at how this November compares to the past 10 I have records for. It has been the warmest to date with 14.8C. The previous record being an average temperature of 14.5C in 2008. It may be the least windy I've recorded and rainfall is in line with the average of 52.5mm to date."

The above is quoted from Jeffs Weather Station by Jeff himself. Doesnt seem like 52mm this month, although over 45mm of this fell over a 2 day period and a total of 5 rain days for the month. October had 21.5mm, September 42mm. So a total of around 115mm for spring here. It certainly seems like sunshine hours have been up here though and thats probably reflected in the warmet november in the past 10 as Jeffs said.

They will until we are told to turn off our hoses and no showers and electricity rises

spwill wrote:City folk love this weather pattern .

0.4C warmer than normal here so far, and with 2 more days to be added to that of warmer than normal weather will most likely end up being 0.5C warmer than normal for me here

Climate Explorer graphs to 27th show a large area of the South Island over 2C above average, and most parts of NZ above. Sunnier than average almost everywhere.

my normal is data for only the last 10 years....which have been global warming years anyway!
sunshine great for solar grid!

NW wind has just come through with a ripe and a roar,hasn't cooled it down any,still on 29C before and after the wind change.

27 degrees in Ashburton,just back from ChCh where it was much cooler at 19

Hi Brian, based on 1971-2000 averages, Akld Aero's mean-temp is also currently running about 0.4C above normal , while just up the road, NIWA's Mangere site is typically about 0.3C below normal .

And Akld Aero may have only recorded 22mm so far, but Mangere has recorded 39mm, while city-fringe dweller Ricky has 47mm (still all well below normal though).

Nov temp records are already falling in inland South Island, along with sunshine records in the lower-central North Island.

Just hit 30 degrees here under blue skies. High dew points as well current dew point of 16.

28.7 degrees at the moment, also under blue skies, with a pleasant cooling south-easterly slight breeze.

Surprised Orion you haven't got the NW being inland like it is here,man its one hot wind though,31C and me and the kids are off to the river.

29.0 degrees now, and the breeze seems to have backed to the north-east. Very nice.

Got the northwesterly wind here now temp up to 31 degrees. Large drop in humitiy as the northwesterly arrived was 48% at 2pm now down 23%.

I see Hanmer Springs hit 33C today, according to the M/S TV-temps posted at W/W. Alexandra on 32C and those on 30C included Molesworth, Lake Rotoiti and Masterton.

P.S. Sticky high of 24.4C here at 3:05pm today.

23.9C here today, though the dewpoint was 18-19C at times. Rather uncomfortable as a result!

Just hit 33C at 5.45pm here to Nev, but unlike the last few days the air is really dry now,picked some lettuce for a salad and it was limp by the time i get inside.

Whats with the 6pm Christchurch rain radar. Not even a cloud in the sky

Clouds drifting across from NW now, but no wind on the ground. 28.3 degrees, sunny.

CHCH Weather Chaser wrote:Whats with the 6pm Christchurch rain radar. Not even a cloud in the sky

Low cloud here in New Brighton since 5pm. Not a sun in the sky;)

Interesting to see the temperature didnt budge much today, but did further inland.
Even up at work we had hardly any wind and only managed 25C, but yes that low cloud came in once i got home around 5:30pm and still is overcast.
Mild though on 18C.
I cant remember many Novembers being this warm and certainly up for sunshine hours, on the plus side everyone loves this weather but if this looms we could be in for some severe droughts come January.
Get these highs to naff off over the chatams way then we can have weather at both ends of the country