General July Weather

[Michael]

Another point,watched TV3 News tonight,weather have SE over much of the country (north island locations) doesnt look right given the general synoptic wind flow.

[jamie]

Metservice going for -6 in Taumaranui on Saturday. Seems a bit cold doesnt it? i know they get bloody cold there but no one else around the country is in their forecast to be even close to that cold.

[Dale]

LOL Richard.. you win

[Nev]

Metservice going for -6 in Taumaranui on Saturday. Seems a bit cold doesnt it? i know they get bloody cold there but no one else around the country is in their forecast to be even close to that cold.

Yeah, does seem unlikely.
Taumarunui has only been around -6C seven times over the last 64 years (-6.1C being the lowest).


Edit: Oops, the figures above are from a station monitored by NIWA and appear to be synoptic based only. MetService's three-and-half year old AWS on the other hand recorded near -6C temps 3 times in June, 2009 and 3 consecutive morns of -5.5C, -6.3C and -6.8C in July last year.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

The weather gods are certainly shining on Christchruch which is a great relief post quake. Apart from the frosty nights ahead we have escaped this weather system almost completely unscathed, best place in NZ to be in the past couple of weeks.

Fine weather forecast tomorrow now too

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Yes. We have missed all the weather that other parts of the country have had, well except for that thunderstorm over BP on Tuesday.
Fine, frosty weather coming up.

JohnGaul
NZThS

[Richard]

LOL Richard.. you win

Hey not trying to out do ya mate after all you took out in the wind department

[Richard]

The weather gods are certainly shining on Christchruch which is a great relief post quake. Apart from the frosty nights ahead we have escaped this weather system almost completely unscathed, best place in NZ to be in the past couple of weeks.

Fine weather forecast tomorrow now too

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The past weeks weather has been so interesting as in the comparisons between here and CHCH while been only a 100km apart,its just been so completely different.Even the old timers that have lived here all there life's recon they cant remember getting so much rain from "the NW"

[Tornado Tim]

This is fairly rare, my high temp today was set at 4.43 AM.

[David]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/artic ... d=10738593

Says the temperature in Auckland only reached 11C yesterday? Where did they get that figure from?

[Michael]

What we need is a low to develop over northern NZ with a cold flow/anticyclone behind.At least next week looks better with easterlies though the NW flow was OK and had lightning.

[Manukau heads obs]

11c?
for where in the country was that the max?
SI obviously
over 14C here yesterday

[Nev]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/artic ... d=10738593

Says the temperature in Auckland only reached 11C yesterday? Where did they get that figure from?

Not from MS obviously - they had 15C for Akld Aero, Whenuapai and Ardmore, and 14C for Whangaparaoa. Last time Akld Aero had a T-max that low or lower was in July, 2009.

[Orion]

After a sunny morning, clouds now approaching from the coast and a southerly breeze rising. 6.3 degrees.

[David]

Seems Metservice thinks this incoming high won't be that frosty, they don't even have Hamilton getting into the negatives or Auckland getting under 5 Sounds wrong to me!

[Manukau heads obs]

we had a clap of thunder at 2:15 with a shower that passed through and looked intense as it hit the coaset line but it then weakened

[Dale]

Been an absolute corker of a day on the coast here.. somebody was kind enough to turn the sun on, and a little bit of warmth to go with it! Not a cloud in the sky & next to zero wind so took the opportunity to go for a ride & take some photos of yesterdays snowdump on the ranges here.. (hey, snow is a novelty for me )

[bmo]

Today so far: Hail,rain,hail,rain,hail,rain S wind cold.
temp: 8.3C
rain: 6.9mm

[Manukau heads obs]

heaps of dead sea birds are washed up at the west coast....no sure of the species...not seen them before...

[NZstorm]

heaps of dead sea birds are washed up at the west coast....no sure of the species...not seen them before...

Kapiti Coast had Broad Billed Prion washed up the on the beaches. These are sub antarctic ocean birds that are not normally seen.

Pic of the bird.
http://www.mangoverde.com/birdsound/ima ... 020652.jpg

[Storm Struck]

A few small showers about this morning with the odd graupel pellet frozen to the windowscreen this morning, was possibly about 0C when this fell so if we had more decent showers we may have had some snow.
Most of the showers today have stayed offshore clipping the penninsula at times, but tomorrow we might see some showers maybe some hail and sleet as the flow goes more S-SW than W-SW.
Southern Alps and lower foothills look nice with thick snow covering them, down to around 400-500m i would say.

[Manukau heads obs]

yes, thats what the bird looks like....
so the long lasting storm has meant they have starved to death?

[NZstorm]

yes, thats what the bird looks like....
so the long last storm has meant they have starved to death?

Yes, they feed on krill and I'm assuming they can't get their food at our latitudes.

[Manukau heads obs]

yes, was just reading about them on wikipedia, they are surface skimming feeders
so if it was blowing 50 knots and mountainous seas with driving foam, they would struggle to get enough food I would say

[Manukau heads obs]

looks like its the entire west coast!
http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/5292 ... Dargaville

thats alot of birds then!

[jamie]

almost like day light out there with the full moon. Just went for a walk to check on the cows and once my eyes adjusted it was like dusk. Can see everything as a silouette (spelling?)all the way to the mountain ranges