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General August Weather

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Looks like a very settled start to the weather in August 0_o

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Looks like there could be a potential polar blast next Sunday with GFS showing isobars coming straight up from the Antartic. Looks a little to WSW at this point in time but Southland and Southern Otago regions could be exposed.
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Re: General August Weather

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Well that cold blast showing in a week has disappeared as soon as it eventuated. Hardly surprising though. Looks to be very boring weather for the first 10 days and with ECMWF showing a strengthening high then even the first 2 weeks look incredibly lull! Maybe the 2nd part of August will pack a punch.
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Re: General August Weather

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Really wet and dull morning here drizzle and fog....
Afternoon was spring like with a lot of sunshine.
Overall a good start of August :)
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Certainly wasn't springlike here, 3C min overnight and a max of 12.5C this afternoon with quite a lot of ominous looking cloud cover. Clearing up during the last hour.
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interesting....we got to 14.7C here OK when the sun came out around 2pm
you must have not had that break in the cloud...
Ricky got to 14.6C too...
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Re: General August Weather

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Absolute stunner down here. Again.
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This will be interesting to see if this eventuates this time next week :eek:

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WOW 8-o :eek: ok.... fun?!
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The Access model always seems to over-exaggerate low pressure systems. But it does look like a fairly large low to affect NZ according to GFS
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Had clear skies here and -3 degrees at 6am, Now its raining lightly from the Northwest and -0.5 degrees, Roads going to be very icy.
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Pea soup about this morning with a frost also. -2 currently. Should be another stunner of a day! GFS bringing back that potential blast of snow to low levels over Southland and Southern Otago again with Canterbury protected due to WSW flow. Certainly not looking anything like what the weatherzone site model was showing though.
snowstormwatcher wrote:Had clear skies here and -3 degrees at 6am, Now its raining lightly from the Northwest and -0.5 degrees, Roads going to be very icy.
Raining with -0.5 the temp? Thought that would constitute snow?
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Hottest 12.3c in Dunedin. Coldest -2.3C in Christchurch.
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snowstormwatcher wrote:Had clear skies here and -3 degrees at 6am, Now its raining lightly from the Northwest and -0.5 degrees, Roads going to be very icy.
Raining with -0.5 the temp? Thought that would constitute snow?
Yes normally it would but the upper air is quite warm (Canterbury high country freezing level is 2000m), Only the first 50 meters or so of the aptmosthere is below freezing due to the frost, The rain doesnt have enough time to freeze and turn to snow in such a shallow layer of freezing air. well thats the way I see it anyway I could be wrong though.
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That makes sense!
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Yawn at this weather. As nice as it is to dry out, it sucks when its still and dry but there is no sun. This must be how the UK people feel in winter.

I hate anticyclonic gloom.
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Re: General August Weather

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Plenty of sunshine here since Sunday but on the cool side.
Dry this week but the wet season returns next week.

Some wintry weather for SW NZ Sat night/Sun, snow for Queenstown.
A Tasman Low next week is perhaps something to watch for inland snow SI
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No anticyclonic gloom here,been really lovely today only down side are the frosts first thing, but worth it i suppose when its like this \:D/ \:D/
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Nice and sunny here for a change :)

Happy Birthday Brian, I have to remember yours is 2 days after mine.

Guess what cake I got, a big chocolate mud cake with a edible photo of lightning in the middle, yay! :D
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A happy Birthday from me also Brian,those Flybuys are rather handy hey,i was only just looking at what i could get before logging on here,they've got a Tesa Weather Station for 395 points,wondered if it would be OK in the short term till i get something better.oops =; #-o getting a bit off topic here. :-w
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Happy birthday Brian! And what a wonderful sunny day it is!
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Nice and foggy here this morning, fairly cool too. Makes your face cold very fast when walking outside.
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Happy belated Birthday Tim & Happy Birthday Brian.
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Re: General August Weather

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^ Ditto :D

Been a relatively warm 10-11C here this morn after an overnight low of 6.7C at 11pm.
First rain for the month - 3.6mm of scattered showers and some blue since about 3am.
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