General February Weather

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

It looks as though the first week of February which usually brings the very warm and hottest temperatures for the year, may be a bit of a fizzer especially here in Canterbury. Maybe the same for the rest of NZ ???

[Orion]

A beautiful sunny morning so far, 23.8 degrees now: but - the wind has gone southerly and there's a bank of grey fluffy low cloud rapidly approaching.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

27 degrees with a dewpoint of 14 currently. Skies getting bluer and bluer. Light winds

[Orion]

16.8 degrees here now & I guess 'twill go a bit lower yet. Clouded over & strong gusty southerly.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

29.2 now with a dewpoint of 15 degrees. A high of 20 with rain easing to showers is way off the mark. Not sure how you have morning rain easing to showers when a southerly doesnt come through (not yet anyways) timing waaay out!

[Skywatcher]

Southerly wasn't due until lunchtime and that's it arriving now, rapidly dropping the temp from the first high over 30°C this summer. Dewpoint peaked at 17°C ... now that felt more tropical

[carrot]

27 degrees/ 16 dp here, was lovely weather but southerly here now

[snowstormwatcher]

Southerly arrived here around 10am, Up to 22 degrees before the change.
13 degrees now with patchy drizzle.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Southerly wasn't due until lunchtime and that's it arriving now, rapidly dropping the temp from the first high over 30°C this summer. Dewpoint peaked at 17°C ... now that felt more tropical

I knew that, we all knew that. Metservice though said "Rain easing to showers this morning" with a high of 20. That was never going to be the case...

[spike_01]

Rain since 7am in Wellington, and still raining.. Although I believe it will be stopping by about 5pm..

Should be fine for the Wellington 7's this Friday and Saturday..

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

29.8 degrees reached. Low cloud this afternoon with gusty southerly but remaining dry. Drizzle seems to be confined inland of Christchurch

[spwill]

The warmest part of the year now.
Sunshine and cloudy spells here, 24C, dewpoint around 16C. The average Auckland max temp for feb is near 24C.
I see Greylynn has been up to 26C.

[Flutterbye]

29.8 degrees reached. Low cloud this afternoon with gusty southerly but remaining dry. Drizzle seems to be confined inland of Christchurch

Pretty sure the 'official' temp for ChCh is about 28 before the southerly swept through. Looks like Whakatane will possibly take the high today with 30.

And yeah, it seemed to be a dry southerly for sure.

[NZstorm]

Looking like the long weekend will be unseasonably cool over the east and north of the North Island, with that ESE flow modeled. Hopefully not too much stratocu for Auckland.

Looks like the warmest weather will be in Central Otago. Southland has done well this summer as well.

[Manukau heads obs]

Southland has done well this summer as well.

except for the recent cold snap (SW flow)

[jamie]

i got an unexpected 7.6mm last night. I was expecting more like 2-3mm

[Manukau heads obs]

yes a very usefill 5mm here, slowly clearing now..

[David]

This is such a strange La Nina, still can't see the hotter weather or moist N-NE flows in the near future. Instead we are stuck in a dry pattern (45mm here YTD). ECMWF suggesting another SW flow to spread up NZ in a little over a week away

[Manukau heads obs]

it is la nina in that the highs have been crossing the SI
instead of beng parked over the NW tasman

but there has not been many lows from the north...yet...(there was in december)
every la nina is different though !

[jamie]

yea i dont really listen to the la nina and el nino stuff. For hamilton we can get a very wet la nina and el nino. But we can also get a very dry la nina and el nino.

So when a la nina or el nino is forcast i dont expect dry cool SW or moist NE or stationary highs or lows from the north.

[Tornado Tim]

But it seems whenever we have a La Nina, we have way less unstable weather, which annoys me, LOL

Overcast with light drizzly precip. Dp of 19°C with a 20°C temp.

[spwill]

The dewpoint has reached a muggy 20C here .

Currently mostly overcaste , 23C, light winds, dry.

Drier air over the weekend for us ( Dp of 12C) which will make the weather feel cooler.

[NZstorm]

But it seems whenever we have a La Nina, we have way less unstable weather, which annoys me

yes, another poor summer for convection. Is our climate becoming less convective in the summer months?

Winter is very much the thunderstorm season for these parts.

The dewpoint has reached a muggy 20C here .

Muggy today but we haven't had much humidity this summer.

[spike_01]

Warm n dry , no wind in Welly.. Perfect for the 7's Parade..

Games start tomorrow, and it will be fine.. Even better on Saturday..

[Thunder]

Yes NZstorm, I always remember you saying about how winter is better for storms in your parts, Taranaki, also the West Coast of the South Island at times. But didn't really take it all in to much. But your certainly right, looking at some older statistical books I've got winter is the better time for you guys. Tornado wise to. An interesting climate in New Zealand, thunderstorms in the summer for the eastern South and North Islands, also the Waikato. Thunderstorms in the winter for western parts of the country. In saying that western parts can also get them in the summer but there is a tendancy for more in the winter. All year round chasing for the dedicated! lol.