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Re: General March Weather

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spwill wrote:ECMWF still wants to bring a tropical low system with rain down onto NZ next week, the rain starting Monday in the north.
GFS on the other hand has the low dropping around 300k's east of the country.

Partly to mostly cloudy weather atm with mild temperatures.
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Re: General March Weather

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Tornado Tim wrote:
spwill wrote:ECMWF still wants to bring a tropical low system with rain down onto NZ next week, the rain starting Monday in the north.
GFS on the other hand has the low dropping around 300k's east of the country.
BOM has it coming over the country too. GFS the odd one out today.
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Re: General March Weather

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I reckon it will be between the gfs and ecmwf with the low just east of northland tracking SE meaning a pretty messy easter for most of the country except the westcoast till the end of the weekend.
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Re: General March Weather

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looks like a solid eastery flow over the 09 this weekend, hope it stays fine for the Beer Festival _b
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Wouldnt it be nice to have them for the other 10 months of the year not just autumn. :yum:
Finally the suns out after a cloudy morning.
Vertigo wrote:looks like a solid eastery flow over the 09
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Re: General March Weather

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Drizzly and cold here today with a high of 11 degrees recorded at 7am this morning. Been hovering around 9 degrees most of the day.
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Re: General March Weather

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Yes a rather cool day here also,managed to get 8mm from the drizzle which came and went most of the day
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Re: General March Weather

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Lovely autumnal day here, light winds, plenty of sunshine, max 21C.

I see GFS is now bringing a tropical low our way next week.
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Re: General March Weather

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Richard and snowstormwatcher - about like that here too, drizzly & overcast; thought it would break around 2pm but the drizzle returned soon after. Currently 10.6 degrees.
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Re: General March Weather

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No measurable drizzle recorded here. Will be interesting to see how the models line up tomorrow with the GFS now plotting the low much closer to NZ.
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Re: General March Weather

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CHCH Weather Chaser wrote:No measurable drizzle recorded here.
INteresting, we ended up with 12mm here, most of that falling between 11.30 and 1.30pm
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Re: General March Weather

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The ECMRF suggests we will get some rain in the north from Monday. There could be a heavy rainfall event in the north mid week, have to see how the models shape up.
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Wall to wall blue here.Rejoice. :D
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Re: General March Weather

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Presumably a lot of the above comment needs to go in an April/ Easter thread

March has been good to us here in ChCh
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Michael wrote:Wall to wall blue here.Rejoice. :D
23C at Greylynn, min was 11C.
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Re: General March Weather

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ECMWF has the low further east now with the main low drifting well to the east so seems GFS picked this one up better from the 'longrange' point of view.
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Re: General March Weather

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CHCH Weather Chaser wrote:ECMWF has the low further east now with the main low drifting well to the east so seems GFS picked this one up better from the 'longrange' point of view.
ECMWF still persists with rain for the NorthIsland early /mid next week, I will decide which is the better model next week :smile:
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BOM have it looping back onto us and GFS as it coming slower now too
looking like strong easterlies at some stage next week either way
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Re: General March Weather

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A cold night for Auckland with GFS forecast low of 12C! Then the mins are higher into the weekend with 15-16C.

Ukmet has a deep low over the North Island Wednesday.
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Re: General March Weather

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Manukau heads obs wrote:BOM have it looping back onto us and GFS as it coming slower now too
looking like strong easterlies at some stage next week either way
Yes, NOGAPS also has it curving back West to stall over the NI for a couple of days, although weakening, if I'm reading it right. I'm not very experienced at looking at these.

Cool, clear evening in Auckland. I hear Jupiter is extra-bright if anyone is in a position to look. I'm loving the crisp, sunny mornings this week. Very pleasant for walking the little fella to school.
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Re: General March Weather

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was warm here last night with a slight sea breeze and some convergence cloud (which produced a fine drizzle at one stage)....was still 17C here at 11pm
now only 10C!

Latest BOM models have a huge easterly storm coming
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Re: General March Weather

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That's a bit grim for you - it's 10.2 deg. here now, overcast & murky if not actually drizzling.
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Re: General March Weather

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yup, but its a fine day here and it will warm up quick with the easterly wind being mainly over land :)
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Manukau heads obs wrote: Latest BOM models have a huge easterly storm coming
It's looking like we are going to have several days of strong easterlies no matter which model you look at now, not such a nice week coming up!
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Re: General March Weather

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Still murky here with a real smell of sea-mist; slightest southerly breeze; 11.2 deg.
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