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Absolutely fantastic day here today. 16 degrees currently with no breeze to speak off. Maybe gusting to 5km/h at most at times. Passed the high of 13. Will be putting the irrigation on tonight as the ground is mcuh drier than normal for this time of year.
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Quite a nice afternoon in Auckland but coolish 15C.
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Lucky you (probably) not have to pay for water like here.
CHCH Weather Chaser wrote:Absolutely fantastic day here today. 16 degrees currently with no breeze to speak off. Maybe gusting to 5km/h at most at times. Passed the high of 13. Will be putting the irrigation on tonight as the ground is mcuh drier than normal for this time of year.
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This CB just developed, has a good flanking line behind it :)
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Michael wrote:Lucky you (probably) not have to pay for water like here
Yes true. Although they may have to come up with some strategy as i've heard due to water supply shortages we will be on restrictions by the end of October. Its been worryingly dry the last 12 months here and a dry winter certainly hasnt helped. Need to have some systems where a low deepens of the canterbury coast for some rainmakers every so often to keep the supplies adequate.
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The lightning active feature in the Tasman is interesting. The good news is we have a number of dry days for Auckland this week, Tuesday mainly dry, Wednesday fine, Friday fine and Saturday should be dry for Eden Park. I have had enough of the rain, time to turn the tap off.
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This current trough pattern would be very interesting in October/November if it can keep going. In recent years the unstable pattern has ended over northern NZ by early to mid October with the arrival of anticyclonic southwest flows.
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Michael wrote:Lucky you (probably) not have to pay for water like here
Yes true. Although they may have to come up with some strategy as i've heard due to water supply shortages we will be on restrictions by the end of October. Its been worryingly dry the last 12 months here and a dry winter certainly hasnt helped. Need to have some systems where a low deepens of the canterbury coast for some rainmakers every so often to keep the supplies adequate.
But has it been dry? looks about normal so far and as for watering your garden so dam early this only makes it far worst for your plants with it cooling the soil, they also get use to the water and when it really gets dry they suffer.
Chch supply shortage is due to pumping and well breakdowns not low ground water _b
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Michael wrote:Lucky you (probably) not have to pay for water like here
Yes true. Although they may have to come up with some strategy as i've heard due to water supply shortages we will be on restrictions by the end of October. Its been worryingly dry the last 12 months here and a dry winter certainly hasnt helped. Need to have some systems where a low deepens of the canterbury coast for some rainmakers every so often to keep the supplies adequate.
Very green here. :mrgreen:
Mowed the lawns today and some of the clover is looking very lush possibly helped by recent snow precipitation and cool nights and the Septemeber sunshine :D

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Left the lawns really long,firstly too wet to attempt to mow and also its somewhere to seep he male pine cones which theres 1000s in spring,the grass keeps them at check.
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Heavy shower here now with small hail.
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Thunder hail and lightning here now.
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snowstormwatcher wrote:Thunder hail and lightning here now.
Fantastic \:D/ good to hear that they are forming to the south and should be moving north,i see on the radar a storm moving on to Timaru right now.
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Nothing exciting here in ChCh, patchy rain. Oh, and just had some of that "thunder from under" with a solid wobble
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Wet since late morning around Akaroa, light dusting of snow now on tops of hills.
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Heavy rain in Ashburton from around 11am for half an hour or so; then stormy sky with greenish tints to some clouds in south at 12.30pm.
At Mayfield: after 3pm some fine hail and heavy rain for ten minutes; just now a roll of thunder. Navy-blue clouds to south and southeast. Wind has been north-easterly on ground while cloud rolls up from south & southeast.
Temp. has fallen to 7.6 degrees.
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Its starting to snow here,massive flakes too, 2.8deg
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where abouts are you Richard? just rain here in Culverden
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its now got colder ,1.9C and the snow has turned back to rain,did briefly cover the car........ :-k ive seen this happen so often where it snows at a warmer temp and as it cools down further it returns to rain,buggered if i know,i dont understand why this happens :rolleyes:
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Richard wrote:its now got colder ,1.9C and the snow has turned back to rain,did briefly cover the car........ :-k ive seen this happen so often where it snows at a warmer temp and as it cools down further it returns to rain,buggered if i know,i dont understand why this happens :rolleyes:
Wow, so much colder there. Maybe that happened cause when it was slightly warmer the precipitation was heavier? pulling the snow level down in the heavier shower cells?
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Nothing happened here today,infact was quite a nice day with high cloud,unfortunately the week long SW flow to come wont bypass us.
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Check out Hanmer timelapse webcam - a partly cloudy day, ending in settling snow by evening.
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trickytiger wrote:where abouts are you Richard? just rain here in Culverden
15 kms SW of Culverden.That's the part i find interesting,while it was snowing here i looked up the temp for Culverden and at that time it was 5.8deg,2.8 here,in yet the same height above sea level.

Still it was great to get a decent fell of precipitation for a change with 15mm
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Just had a hail shower. Stones about 0.5cm in size.

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Having some light drizzle but winds have increased over the past hour.
Total rain so far today is 11.94mm--9mm fell within an hour from around 2.30-3.30pm
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