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Re: General January Weather

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Yes there's some very nice looking NW cloud out there alright,today's NW wind has been no more than a gentle breeze of 20km max and still a warm one considering the cloud cover,got to a high of 28.5C.
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Re: General January Weather

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Interesting you say that Richard, the northerly has cranked up here with some strong gusts at times.
Different forms of upper level cloud tonight, even a hint of CU thrown in had some brief large drops earlier on.
I bet Weetbix is out taking photos of the arch to the east.
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Re: General January Weather

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That wind did get up a bit more about 7.00 Jase.

I got a photo of the wave cloud though
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Re: General January Weather

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Went out for a cycle in the countryside this evening, was great until the wind picked up & I had a hard 10k grind up Shands road, urgh.

Anyways, got a few pics before the camera crapped out. There were some anti-crepuscular waves present for a while but you couldn't see them very well because there wasn't enough contrast, also spotted a rainbow over by the port hills around 8 o'clock.

Anyways, the pics..

Taken out on McLeans island road looking back towards the hills. Obviously it wasn't quite this dark, but I like it when the suns out where I am, and it causes a nice contrast on the clouds, so I exaggerated it a bit :)
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Corner of Yaldhurst Road & Pound Road
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On Yaldhurst, near SH1
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Great pics Weetbix and sad to hear a cyclist killed in Leeston tonight.
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Yer great pics alright Weetbix =D>

The NW wind kept the overnight temp higher than 20.5 with the odd big gust.

:-k wonder what today will bring,no sign yet of the cloudy periods,with patchy drizzle they say for rural Canterbury
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Re: General January Weather

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Clear skies here this morning with a moderate to strong southerly and 18 degrees currently. I see in the last hour Metservice is recording "Wettest: Cape Campbell 102.6mm" in the last hour.....yeah right!
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Nice pictures Weetbicks. Fine morning so far blue skies and a light easterly wind. There is a bank of low cloud to the far southeast so id say it will start clouding over soon currently 16 degrees overnight low of 9.
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Bit warm today! Sunny 26.9C max here, warmest so far this month.
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Could slowly increased during the day, now there's a odd spot of rain and a light E,now 16C.
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Getting some drizzle here now currently 12 degrees. High of 21 degrees at around 1pm Before a moderate southeast wind arrived.
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Occasional spots of fine rain here since 2.30pm; 21.8 degrees, 59% humidity, pressure dropping, high overcast; still very much a nor'west sky. I am reliably informed that spots of rain have begun falling in Timaru just lately also.
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Now a moderate southerly breeze, cloud overhead moving across from west. 23.8 degrees and falling, 55% humidity.
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Shared the high with Hamner Springs of 31C before the NW wind arrived mid afternoon and smacked a few dec off
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After the thunderstorms had left (see relevant topic, thanks to whoever set that up as I was just going to, when it was already done :D ), SW wind becoming very strong following on. I see some nice lenticular forms over BP from here, now all clearing up to become lovely and fine, except for the wind.

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NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:After the thunderstorms had left color=#FF00FF] (see relevant topic, thanks to whoever set that up as I was just going to,[/color] when it was already done :D ), SW wind becoming very strong following on. I see some nice lenticular forms over BP from here, now all clearing up to become lovely and fine, except for the wind.

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Just got in from outside where i noticed now the clouds are moving from the NW rather fast,a sign the upper level winds have turned,should be a NW wind early morning here i pick.
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Chilly overnight low of 4C and a NW wind that shouldn't be too far away,going to be some high temps in the east of the SI today.
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Cool overnight here as well got down to 3 degrees. Quite a lot of high cloud around as well which is trapping the cool air should warm up fast though once the northwestely gets up. Currently 6.5 degrees.
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Overcast @ 18 in the city, metservice is predicting 29 deg with warm gusty northerlies, so where are they! Richard, any sign of them up that way yet?
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Chilly overnight here also, was 8.9 degrees at 8am and although the nor'west has now risen (it was south-west earlier) the temp. has dropped a little to 19.8 degrees. I've often observed that "warm-nor-west" is not necessarily one word!
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Very nice Mammatus display over Nelson about an hour or so ago, tried a few different shots but this 5 frame pano seemed to show it the best:
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Tim S wrote:Very nice Mammatus display over Nelson about an hour or so ago, tried a few different shots but this 5 frame pano seemed to show it the best
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The northwest is here 24 degrees but wont get to 29 like this. Way too overcast all day no sun to speak of
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24.2 degrees here, nor'wester has risen to high wind in last half hour. Still overcast; 41% humidity. Pressure droppping.
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Tim S wrote:Very nice Mammatus display over Nelson about an hour or so ago, tried a few different shots but this 5 frame pano seemed to show it the best:
mamma 30jan2011 pano.jpg
3 more here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/timandatessa/
That's gotta be one of the more dramatic mammatus photos I have seen in NZ. _b
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