General July Weather

[David]

Beautiful sunny day here, no sign of forecast showers. Maximum 17C

[bmo]

Beautiful sunny day here, no sign of forecast showers. Maximum 17C

Just come to west Auckland, shower after shower, small ones though 15C now

[NZstorm]

A cb has developed just south of Auckland, glaciated top. I see the temp at the airport is 18C.

[Michael]

Been A nice day today,warm teeshirt weather,no wind and not looking forward to tomorrow/mon weatherwise.cleaned out the roof valley of sack fulls of needles to prevent leaking.

[NZstorm]

Looks like thunderstorms will approach the west of the North Island tomorrow pm but the system will be weakening. Looks to be a good chance for the west of Waikato in the early evening however. Will see how this looks tomorrow.

[Michael]

Typical Auckland winter day,clouds over after a night of top to bottom condensation,at least when I lived in Waganui it meant a good frost and clear day,not showers on and off.

[RWood]

Typical Auckland winter day,clouds over after a night of top to bottom condensation,at least when I lived in Waganui it meant a good frost and clear day,not showers on and off.

No sunshine measurement at Wanganui since the 1990s. While pre-1950s records suggest it was a bit sunnier than Auckland, nothing since then supports that case. An EWS instrument will probably be installed there in the near future. Perhaps the results might look different then.

[Michael]

There used to be a station at cooks gardens,can remember it the black aneometre spinning round many moons ago.

[RWood]

There used to be a station at cooks gardens,can remember it the black aneometre spinning round many moons ago.

There's never been a shortage of stations - rainfall from 1890. Currently there are 2 AWSs and one EWS noted at CliFlo, but sunshine measurements ceased in 1995. I suspect the later records were compromised somewhat by deterioration at the site (vegetation or new/larger obstacles).

[Manukau heads obs]

ps, re that waipu tornado, we eneded up staying at waipu cove over the weekend (got some good surf in)
just a few km on from where the tornado came in
those houses on the other side of the road were lucky to have missed it!
ps, the photo associated with it could not actually been it?
Spwill,did you find any other damage trail further inland?

[snowstormwatcher]

Moderate NW wind just arrived here in the last hour, Temperature has climbed from -6.7 at 8am to 8 degrees now.

[Manukau heads obs]

hopefully that warmer air gets to CHCH airport....to thaw out the ice do that flights can get going again...

[Orion]

Currently: sunny, some light cloud; nor'wester and temp. rising quickly, now 7.3 degrees
44% humidity.

[Manukau heads obs]

Went and visited a house not far from here that had a big norfolk pine struck by lightning at around 5am ish
not sure if it was monday or sunday morning just gone
the path blew off the bark in a spiral pattern down the tree
and blew out 16 window panes on the house (outwards too)
and blew out the meter in the meter box (circuit board shown) and phone line, etc

treestrike.jpg

the tip of the norfolk pine is now missing
its basicly ring barked now....and will die....the lady of the house is not worried though, as she said it shades the house badly

they said it was like a huge explosion!
you can see how all the roots have been shook in the ground too

update, checking my boltec and the history of strikes, there was a strike just to my NW, correct distance, but plotted too far away, monday morning, 5:21am
(the occupants of the house were a bit vague on what day it was, I think they were still in shock)

you other Boltec guys should be able to confer

these winter time lightning strikes seem to be very powerfull...i.e cold air has more resistance, so the voltage would be higher to over come that,for a ground strike?

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Got to 7 degrees here today but did feel warmer than that around midday in the sun. Clouded over early afternoon and felt much cooler as you would expect. Sitting on 2.8 degrees at the moment with high cloud. GFS run just through is putting out some fairly large rainfall totals for Christchurch/Canterbury from Friday afternoon. Probably just a fluke run. Still a lot of snow about on the roads and around the property. Will take a few days to disappear, especially if we get frosts freezing the snow over.

[Richard]

Gees that lady in the house would have fair crapped herself Brian.

Been a windy day here with a WNW,died down a bit in the hour hour or so.

[Captain Salty]

the norwester has pushed the airport up to 8 now, and the humidity down to 44%. i hope to makes it into town and spares us a frost

[spwill]

Christchurch Airport is currently on 8.2C warmer than Auckland Airport on 7.3C.

[NZstorm]

Upper air is cold so that trough coming in to the west of the North Island today has some instability with it. Will reach western Waikato early evening but be fairly weak as it crosses Auckland. The front activates again over the far north overnight. Air will be a bit more moist up there too, 13C dewpoints.

[Richard]

Been rather windy overnight which has calmed a little in the last hour or two,winds kept it from going no lower than 7C,nearly 12 deg warmer than this time yesterday

[Michael]

Just a SW airflow in drag
light showers here with light winds.

Upper air is cold so that trough coming in to the west of the North Island today has some instability with it. Will reach western Waikato early evening but be fairly weak as it crosses Auckland. The front activates again over the far north overnight. Air will be a bit more moist up there too, 13C dewpoints.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Snow is melting fast today, got a fright half an hour ago when a huge slab went crashing off the roof. Lot of surface water around now. NIce day out there, 11.4 degrees atm. Snow down to about 5cm on grass now.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Reached 15.4 here today very good going, considering 2 days ago. Lots of snow melt today but water around for sure. Looks like from Sunday onwards highs dominate our skies for at least a week and ECMWF seems to like highs to the end of their forecast period so a lull period on the way it seems.

[Manukau heads obs]

picking up a few lightning strikes from the frontal CB's to my west

[Skywatcher]

A beautiful sunny day especially when the gusty NWer eased in the afternoon Fairly dry air with a dewpoint around 1°C.