General January Weather

[Storm Struck]

Just talking to a few people before who said there was a thunderstorm which past out east this morning, long thunder rumbles were heard even from in Christchurch.
Radar suggests it started around Waikari before heading SE and over Cheviot after 10am, which is interesting considering there was nothing in the forecasts to suggest this could happen.
The wind must have carried the thunder some distance, but i didnt hear it had a good sleep in though.

[NZstorm]

Interesting report Jason. Elevated thunderstorms arrived on the West Coast/Fiordland last night with some showers getting across the alps into Canterbury overnight/morning. Elevated storms can be difficult to forecast as the instability does not show up in the traditional methods of thunderstorm forecasting. (lifted index). The instability moved away to the east this morning.

[cantygal]

My one is a Skywatch explorer 2 and I think it's reasonably accurate?

29.3 now and the wind continues its decent blow but gusting only about 70 now

My friend in Cust said they had great thunder and wildfire between 2 and 4am this morn.

[spwill]

This tracker shows some lightning occurred over the foot hills, I have found this tracker to be quite sensitive so quite a good guide for storm occurrence and location.
I see a weak storm also shows up over East Cape late yesterday
http://wwlln.net/WWLLN_movies/Movie_of_ ... ic_BIG.gif

[Lukemyster]

I heard very loud thunder rumbles in Bexley. Woke me up and just sat back and enjoyed the sound. Not a drop of rain.

[TonyT]

Never heard nor saw anything interesting here.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Never heard nor saw anything interesting here.

...either here, although there was a short steady shower around 3am, that did wake me up. Only 0.7mm in the raingauge though.

JohnGaul
NZThS

[Orion]

Has been up to 32.3 here today, temp. has fallen over last half-hour to 28.1; wind strength comes and goes, direction from NW through to a cooler SW and then back again; sky has clouded over & some watery-looking cloud coming across from WSW; 37% humidity. Pressure rising...

[tgsnoopy]

My one is a Skywatch explorer 2 and I think it's reasonably accurate?

Try being driven down the road with it out the window. Compare the cars speed to the anenometer, better still, compare it with a GPS. Don't exceed it's maximum rating!

[cantygal]

Thanks tgsnoopy and I did exactly that. It seems to be very accurate which is pleasing but my hairdo didn't hold up so well!!

[snowstormwatcher]

Got up to 28 degrees here this afternoon with a strong northwesterly and some brief light rain around 3pm. Currently 24 degrees.

[Captain Salty]

been southerly here for a couple of hours now, not that you'd know it, nicest its been today

[Weetbicks]

Seems to have gone back to NW now.

We had a few spots of rain around 2pm, but was very brief and not enough to wet the ground, a cracker day, though feels a little too warm for me

thinking of heading out to catch some sunset shots this evening. Found a cool site - Christchurch Webcam - which has a controllable webcam positioned on Huntsbury hill in the port hills, you can get a good view of the whole city & off to the west. Looking @ the webcam would indicate it is partially clear off to the west so might be in for some late sunshine in town with the chance of a sunset. I bought the old mans DSLR camera off him over christmas given he never uses it, so keen to try it out.

[Richard]

Just talking to a few people before who said there was a thunderstorm which past out east this morning, long thunder rumbles were heard even from in Christchurch.
Radar suggests it started around Waikari before heading SE and over Cheviot after 10am, which is interesting considering there was nothing in the forecasts to suggest this could happen.
The wind must have carried the thunder some distance, but i didnt hear it had a good sleep in though.

That particular shower didn't have any thunder and lightening with it Jase,but what was amazing about was how heavy it was though only briefly(4mm),ended up moving NE and missed Cheviot all together.what T&L we did have here was much earlier during the night.

Lovely and calm here this morning on 16.5C,doesn't look like the weather is going to be overly riveting later

[NZstorm]

Perfect anticyclonic conditions for Auckland again today. Clear with light winds. Afternoon temps should reach 26-27C.

[cantygal]

My pick is for the 30s again in this part of the world. Less wind overnight but still nor' west. Now 23.3

[Orion]

13.2 degrees here and while cloud up top is still coming across from the west, light low shreds of misty cloud are coming in from south-east, with murk visible on horizon in southerly quarter. Sunshine still, 80% humidity, gentle southerly breeze.

[Michael]

Places like Taupo will have hot weather in this pattern too.(ofcourse inland south island will probably tops)

[David]

Perfect anticyclonic conditions for Auckland again today. Clear with light winds. Afternoon temps should reach 26-27C.

Even places with a sea breeze?

The sea breeze had quite a strong moderating effect on the temperature here yesterday - I expected it to reach 25 even with the sea breeze but it didn't.

[kelhb]

Yet another glorious day here in Hastings, clear blue skies, very slight NW breeze, currently 27C.
Yesterday was much the same, clear skies, slight N breeze and high of 28C. We spent most of the day in Waipukurau, there was no breeze and was 30C when we left at 3pm.

[spwill]

Between sea breezes at my place yesterday, calm and hot in the sun before the SW sea breeze won mid afternoon and pushed through to the east coast early evening, no real convergence cumulus line yesterday.

[Michael]

I think the westcoast breeze SW or W depending where you are will be dominant today given the ridge position.Sunshine here like much elsewhere today.

[David]

I think the westcoast breeze SW or W depending where you are will be dominant today given the ridge position.Sunshine here like much elsewhere today.

The west coast breeze usually wins every time - we get the change here in the evening usually. Turned light SW around 6pm yesterday. Just the odd NE puff at the moment

[Manukau heads obs]

sea breeze arrived very abruptly here at 9am
see:
http://www.weather-display.com/windy/gb ... sbeach.htm

[Dale]

Nice breeze here atm, not too strong but its damn warm out.. just shot into Pukke for a few things & near melted.