General January Weather

[Captain Salty]

the south island is almost cloudless right now

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Sattelitte pictures don't show much. Sometimes there are clear shots of NZ and lots of places are covered with low cloud. Mind you it's a cloudless sky at the moment although a little hazy with a fresh ENE blowing here

[spwill]

Just had a heavy shower here out of a narrow cloud line after a mostly fine warm day, max 25C, dewpoint 17C. I like days like this, won't need to water the lawn now.

[NZstorm]

Missed that shower here.

A shot of very warm air comes across the country from tomorrow. Dunedin Airport should top 30C with isolated big NW gusts 60kts possible.

The warm air should give a very hot day over eastern North Island Wednesday.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Does the Canterbury rain radar need a clean? whats with the activity showing on there at the moment. Clear skies above at the moment but shows drizzly stuff over us with heavy line to NE of city out to sea...

[Manukau heads obs]

most likely a strong inversion layer (with the NW flow) which causes ghosting

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Metservice going for 30 here and 32 in Ashburton. Long way off that in both areas. Few spots of rain here, very thick high cloud and only 23 degrees.

[Orion]

20.9 degrees here at the moment; also the few spots of rain and the thick overcast. Strong gusty north-westerly.

[Chris Raine]

Near gale NW conditions to 1.30pm winds now eased but moderate rain now falling

[spwill]

24C, dewpoint 16C for Auckland this afternoon. some suburbs having a sunny day while others have plenty of cloud.

A poor January for Auckland with sunshine well down , the cloud cover helping keep temperatures cooler than normal also there has been a lack of airflow from warm origins. i don't think there has been much in the way of warm air from inland Australia reaching NZ this January.

[Manukau heads obs]

another hot day here compared to what the rest of Jan was like
Jan will end up being 1.5 C colder than normal for me
February looks like it will be warmer than normal, at least for the 1st week!

ps, bit a of a weak convergence shower line over the waitakere ranges

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

25 degrees now but still thick high cloud. No wind all day really with an average speed of 2km/h. You can tell though that had the sun been out it would be HOT! Its very tropical out there, even a few spots of rain again before with the temp on 24 at that point.

[spwill]

ps, bit a of a weak convergence shower line over the waitakere ranges

Yes, MetService need to add showers to the Auckland forecast, NE V SW shower covvergence line across the region now, light rain here.

[Tim S]

Boring 'ole weather here in Nelson all January, I think we got about 14mm of rain and goodness knows how much sun. Though it was a nice change after a 400mm+ December!

My February is bound to be a lot more exciting though as I am moving to Wellywood on Friday.

[Storm Struck]

A very interesting day with the arch sticking overhead, but lots of Mamatus forms and brief heavy bursts of rain especially around 1pm when a long thunder rumble appeared out of nowhere.
Yes i know strange i thought it was a plane at first but no it definatly rolled and did the cannon dumping sound.
None of these gale winds here all day infact even inland at work only the odd puff around 35kmh, Remained reasonably warm even without the sun on 23C so i can imagine we could have very well hit something like 33C today.

[melja]

Another poor forecast from metservice again ended up 6C below forecast high in chch and 9C below in ashburton even had heavy rain for a while with a little thunder as well but none of this was in there forecast and the gusty NW was not to be seen.
Think its about time there funding was like the SPARK sports funding- dont perform then give it to someone else to have a go. Computers just arnt a forecast tool to place so much reliance on in my mind.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Ah ..well Yes, sometimes the forcasted maximums do match. Maybe, the maximum for today was dependent on cloud clearance but then it didn't happen. At work today, someone mentioned that it could get up to 27C. I said no, it would only get up to 19C because of the thick NW cloud cover. It was 23C here.

[NZstorm]

n ashburton even had heavy rain for a while with a little thunder

Looks like the thunderstorm has come out of an orographic wave. The upper level lapse rates are steep and when moisture and lift are added, high level cb's develop.

There were elevated thunderstorms over the South Tasman/Fiordland earlier in the day associated with the warm front.

[melja]

Mmm NZstorm you can pick these things but not the guys that get our money to pick them

[03Stormchaser]

Very warm evening, 20c currently

[Chris Raine]

Interesting comments guys . At 1pm we had a rumble of thunder too in Oamaru as our sudden dump of rain began , real big drops too . Ugly sky at dusk , lots of mammatus . Looks like somthing is going to happen , Blowing hard too NW Gusting 30 kts with 23.4C

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

A breeze out there now, perhaps the strongest of the day at around 20km/h and has shot up from 20 to 23 degrees.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Interesting this morning, it was windy from the NW here from 6am, but when I got to work at Halswell, there was no wind at all and throughout the day there was bugger all wind at all?
if any wind, it was from the NE.

[Tornado Tim]

Ugly sky at dusk , lots of mammatus .

Really?!, Mammatus ugly? hmm, I suppose this quote comes to mind "beauty is in the eye of the beholder..."

[Thunder]

I certainly wasn't expecting thunder today, lol. I heard the heavy rain but that's all I got hear in Halswell, interesting stuff though.