General June Weather

[jamie]

Wind is picking up significantly up north. Tutukaka is to gusting 100km in the last hour.

[snowstormwatcher]

Still below freezing here with thick high cloud, looks brighter to the NW so it should warm up in the next couple of hours.

[spwill]

15C here, very glad to be out of the cold air, don't come back cold air.

An excellent web cam here for Western Canterbury, at Glentanner looking toward Mt Cook.
http://www.glentanner.co.nz/web-cam

[Orion]

That really is a good one - thankyou so much!

[Richard]

Not hard to see those storms coming in from the Tasman ATM.

one deg here also Orion

[NZstorm]

around 10.30pm we had what I can only describe as slowly-falling ice

Ice pellets are quite rare in NZ so interesting report orion. Also you don't come across freezing rain much in this country either. In USA they call freezing rain sleet.

[Tornado Tim]

This looks very suspicious, but the hook is the wrong way round

[jamie]

Warm air finally arrived associated with the warm front. Was a substatial increase in temp with the wind change.

[Chris Raine]

We had snow in the Corriedale area of North Otago 2-3cm on country roads from 4-5 am this morning . We have grit trucks out dealing with the snow and black ice .

Prydes Gully Road 2.JPG

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Yes. I noticed some snow on Mt. Herbert today on the way to work but

[Andy]

Coldest max temp for the winter here so far. Max 2.0 currently -1.5.

[snowstormwatcher]

Managed to reach 5c here once the sun came out this afternoon. -0.8 now.

[Chris Raine]

Got to 5.9 C today currently 3.1 C in Oamaru , went for a drive back to where this morning's picture was taken , roads freezing over and black ice beginning to form

[Andy]

Got to 5.9 C today currently 3.1 C in Oamaru , went for a drive back to where this morning's picture was taken , roads freezing over and black ice beginning to form

Yes roads here this morning were very icey, not looking too good tomorrow either

[NZstorm]

Can see lightning out to SW from that line down the west of the NI.

[Manukau heads obs]

yes,just seen a good flash out to my West

this is picking them up well
http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/ind ... bpage_0=21

[spwill]

Can see the odd very distant flash.

[jamie]

Been watching flashes to my NW

[Manukau heads obs]

firing up again out to my SW, and getting closer

[NZstorm]

Tomorrows (Wednesdays) thunderstorm set up could justify a new thread, looks like we get an organised line of convection heading our way later tomorrow. Should reach the west of the North Island just on dark Quite a nice looking upper system coming in. Isolated waterspouts/tornadoes on the cards for Taranaki and Bay of Plenty given the onshore flow there. We'll see how this set up shapes up in the gfs next 24hrs.

[Manukau heads obs]

could here thunder here last night with some really bright flashes

[Orion]

Temp. here has just risen to 0.0
Fog has crept in, visibility 100m.
I believe the grass is getter whiter as I watch!
Mukluks-time, I think.

[jamie]

Tomorrows (Wednesdays) thunderstorm set up could justify a new thread, looks like we get an organised line of convection heading our way later tomorrow. Should reach the west of the North Island just on dark Quite a nice looking upper system coming in. Isolated waterspouts/tornadoes on the cards for Taranaki and Bay of Plenty given the onshore flow there. We'll see how this set up shapes up in the gfs next 24hrs.

Awesome! I like the sounds of that!

[Manukau heads obs]

new lightning tracker tracking 2 cells east of auckland
http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/ind ... bpage_0=21

[snowstormwatcher]

Another cold day here with thick high cloud and patchy fog. 1.8c currently.