GALE southWesterly in Christchurch

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sun 06/06/2004 18:57

A gale SW wind blew through Christchurch this afternoon.
Beat that Michael

JohnGaul
NZTS

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Sun 06/06/2004 20:29

Your ones are only short lasting.Ours rages several days at a time

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sun 06/06/2004 20:35

This southerly could rage for a few hours yet

JohnGaul
NZTS

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sun 06/06/2004 21:24

Auckland "gales" are not so cold. Currently 12C here, 5C is Cristchurch.

I notice the 3pm temp at Dunedin airport (93891) was 3.2C, southerly 22knots, sleety rain. And 11mm rainfall there this afternoon, which suggests a good snowfall over the Maungatua range down there.

Dunedin airport is 1m above sea level.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sun 06/06/2004 21:29

Michael, you havn't experienced the true rigour of the weather untill you have been in a South Island wintry southerly.

Dean. · Unread post by **Dean.** » Sun 06/06/2004 21:42

All the action is going up the coast around these parts,a mostly fine day here today with a cold southwesterly breeze.
Will be a snowy night around the tops of Banks Peninsula.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sun 06/06/2004 21:45

Yes, Deano, the 9pm radar shows very showery conditions just offshore with Banks Peninsula in the thick of it.

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Sun 06/06/2004 22:43

What I remember of a Christchurch winter is one day its 3 degrees in the daytime with wet drizzel then a boomer frost the next day then not a cloud in the sky but cold then the next mild overcast and dry without any wind and so on

NZstorm wrote:Michael, you havn't experienced the true rigour of the weather untill you have been in a South Island wintry southerly.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sun 06/06/2004 23:20

Should be a good 'Old Man " southerly scenario until about Wednesday/Thursday when the next NW kicks in?

JohnGaul
NZTS

Thunder · Unread post by **Thunder** » Mon 07/06/2004 02:31

Very windy here tonight with the rain and small hail kicking in again!!

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Mon 07/06/2004 10:17

The west coast appears to have cleared so you must be still getting the southerly now and the weather appears to have gone more beebop here today with a SSW

Manukau heads obs · Tue 08/06/2004 22:22

very little wind here today, nice sunny day, makes you really appreciate nz, such a nice place to live!

the wind actualy finally dropped here at around 6am,....then the temperature started to drop, even as the sun came up...it took a while for the winter sun to counteract the loss of heat to space....