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General January Weather

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Fine,cooler,16c this morning,of course wind is already picking up given little isobaric pressure.(infact to some degree all night) Hurry up la nina pattern. :-)
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Cloudy here with a bit of drizzle over night (dust settler) 13.3 at the moment and should come out hot before the NW wind change later.
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Anyone else try to look at the SiteCam HD webcam looking over Auckland city last night? I went to check it to see if I could see the skytower fireworks (no view of skytower from home) and it stopped working at 11.55pm and cam back around 12.30am with no previous images existing! 0_o q-
Talk about weird!

Oh well Ricky's webcam caught it anyway ;)
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Looks like a good SW in Auckland today but the flow goes NE tomorrow and NW Monday by the looks. Potential there for the temperatures to go up Sunday/Monday.

Those Auckland fireworks where over the Harbour last night with the Sky Tower more of a side show.
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we watched the sky tower from the harbour beach...could see 2 lots of fireworks..was wondering where the other lot was from...
the 17C temperature last night seemed colder than you would think 17C would be, with the wind blowing....
to do with the dew point i guess...a bit drier air and it would not have felt as cold...

looking like a return to NE winds for the NI later this week
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Were a fair few fireworks here but the best show was put on by mother nature;

Timelapse of last night's sunset: http://www.flickr.com/photos/timandatessa/5310683694/ :)
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Michael wrote:Fine,cooler,16c this morning,of course wind is already picking up given little isobaric pressure.(infact to some degree all night) Hurry up la nina pattern. :-)
SW flows are mostly sunny this time of year Michael, enjoy .

Comfortable weather today( dewpoints 15C) currently sunny 21C, low was 17C,
Looks like High preasure will dominate our weather week, a large high will become slow moving east of NZ, cloudy humid weather later in the week.
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Its just adding more pine needle mess in the roof and randomly over everything,these summer ones blow as bad as a deep low off hawkes bay in winter and stuff all isobars on todays map.Whitecaps in the harbour today too so its pretty strong.
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NNE wind here is reducing in speed as the NW is near,should be here before dark i think,max today 25.8.
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Been quite windy here today with the ENE being rather fresh, this afternoon. More thicker high cloud moving in from the west now.

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Sunburnt today, even with the SW's.. but thats due to 6 kids here having a water fight & chasing Geese (which chased them back).. saw the fireworks near the skytower last night from here.. most impressive.

As is the fire burning at Waiuku with 4 choppers waterbombing and a dozer on its way in to create a firebreak.. smoked us out completely to the point we had to close up shop & got as far as Hunua where it smoked them out also.

Happy New Year all :)
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Not a bad start to the year with a nice day, although as John mentioned that NE did get up abit.
Some weaker forms of CU again this evening, and sticking the head out the door just now was surprised to hear rain drops falling nice big ones too.
No rain recorded here overnight so must have been very localised stuff.
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rain radar shows it spreading up from the SW
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Theres some fog out there this morning rolled in the harbour.
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Strong to gale westerly this morning and over night,got woken just after 3.00 by flashes of light,so to get up then and go have a look.It wasn't over head sheet lightening that from time to time accompanies a NW front over this area, but fork lightening about 10-15 km away towards the mountains.Over night low of 16C now 18.4C
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Northwest gale here as well overnight with gusts peaking at 102kph on hand held anenometer this morn plus thick high cloud.
Temp didn't drop below 20.4 and now 23.2 :)
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Sounds like quite a hot day on the way today in some eastern areas in the S.I today.
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which model hand held anenometer? (just of interest! ) :)
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Looks like the temperatures will hit 30C over inland NI next couple of days given the warm upper level airmass.

but fork lightening about 10-15 km away towards the mountains.
An interesting case of elevated convection over the South Island last 24hrs.
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30C forecast for Hamilton tomorrow and Tuesday :-o

Lovely sunny day here, 23C, dew point 17C. :smile:
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that sun has some heat in it today!
nice to see the SW wind has died away :)
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Have we got anyone down Dunedin to keep an eye on this "baby" ???

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Nor'west, blue skies with a few clouds, 29.7 degrees now and still rising. 41% humidity.
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It sure is blowing a good gale out there, nothing in the forecasts or warnings to suggest this.
Got gusts up around 75-80kmh at times here in the east, lost power briefly for about 5 minutes earlier on.
Thats odd its not often you hear about possible tornadoes in the Otago region, has there ever been any down there before?.
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Thats odd its not often you hear about possible tornadoes in the Otago region, has there ever been any down there before?.
yes, remember that clip of the tornado at Waikouaiti just north of Dunedin a couple of Januarys back.

The shear in Otago is through the roof but the air looks a bit dry and I'm not convinced they'll be instability down there. However, the gfs does develop convection SW of Dunedin this afternoon. 500mb flow modeled at 80kts!
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