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General July Weather

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Interesting to see how July will be. <3
Well of course it should be cold, as July is the coldest month of the year, but it could be a 'mild' start as a trough slowly crosses the country?
What's behind it dosen't look like much, as a great anticyclone over Australia lurks moving slowly towards us. I hope it dosen't dip south and give us a splurge of cold weather, ie snow to places that don't want it. :x
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NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:Interesting to see how July will be. <3
Well of course it should be cold, as July is the coldest month of the year, but it could be a 'mild' start as a trough slowly crosses the country?
What's behind it dosen't look like much, as a great anticyclone over Australia lurks moving slowly towards us. I hope it dosen't dip south and give us a splurge of cold weather, ie snow to places that don't want it. :x
I'm with you on that one John,give me a month jam packed with NW winds please.
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An 8C start here after a light frost yesterday. Hopefully some thunder this week, the upper NI has the best chance.

The cold southerly next weekend lacks cold upper level support at this stage so the showers will be mostly along the coast. Not much precipitaion for the Ski fields I would say.
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Yes it does look like some thunder will be on the cards for parts of the North Island this week with the passage of some frontal systems.

A cool morning here with a fantastic display of Altocumulus-Makerel Sky.

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High of 4 degrees here today with blue dome skies.
Just been outside and there is already ice forming the car.
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snowstormwatcher wrote:High of 4 degrees here today with blue dome skies.
Just been outside and there is already ice forming the car.
Thats mental. whats the temp atm?
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Yes high here of 5 and low -10, blue dome conditions sun disappearing now and temp dropping currently -1 degrees.
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jamie.haultain wrote:
snowstormwatcher wrote:High of 4 degrees here today with blue dome skies.
Just been outside and there is already ice forming the car.
Thats mental. whats the temp atm?
0.2 now, I don't think Ive seen it so cold so early in the evening since 2007 which was a very frosty year here.
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Only made 6deg here with blue sky,wont be a frost tonight though,heap of cloud has come over.
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Richard wrote:Only made 6deg here with blue sky,wont be a frost tonight though,heap of cloud has come over.

Still clear here temp -2.5 :wave:
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There was a stunning view of Mt Ruapehu from Hamilton all day today. I love these days when you can see that mountain so clearly.
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I was in Alex for a few days til yesterday. Cracker of a -7 yesterday, colder today I understand? Came through the Mackenzie yesterday, still a decent amount of snow on the ground and a good freeze there too.
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temp falling like a rock here. dropping 4 degrees an hour. Was at 11 at 4pm and now its just 5.5. Should be down to zero in no time.
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Razor wrote:I was in Alex for a few days til yesterday. Cracker of a -7 yesterday, colder today I understand? Came through the Mackenzie yesterday, still a decent amount of snow on the ground and a good freeze there too.
Yes a very good frost here this morning i recorded -10, dropping fast again tonight currently -4.4.
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Minus 1.8 here already....lawn stayed frozen all day with a high of 6 degrees under brilliant blue skies.
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Yes, very cold today despite clear blue skies and sunshine. A very white frost.
Now -2.8.
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Minus 3 at 8pm...weve hit our overnight low.
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-6 here already!
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I see Timaru is down to -5 already, yet they aren't that far inland at all...
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David wrote:I see Timaru is down to -5 already, yet they aren't that far inland at all...
That's taken at the airport which 10km inland, I still don't trust the night temperatures from there as they seem to low compared to the old site.

Its -4.7 here in a basin at 300m ASL yet some how its -5 at 40 ASL closer to the coast it just doesn't stack up.
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And ChCh is 10 degrees warmer...due to low cloud.
Hard to fathom why Timarus official Metservice temps are recorded that far away from the city.
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Deano wrote:And ChCh is 10 degrees warmer...due to low cloud.
Hard to fathom why Timarus official Metservice temps are recorded that far away from the city.
No more "official" than the site in the town surely (Gardens or thereabouts as I recall).
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Deano wrote:And ChCh is 10 degrees warmer...due to low cloud.
Got same cloud here,can only just make out the moon but still cold though on +1deg
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Andy wrote:-6 here already!
Appreciate the updates, always hoping metservice would add Alexandra to their website as its such a swing of extremes for a New Zealand climate
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mattyj46 wrote:
Andy wrote:-6 here already!
Appreciate the updates, always hoping metservice would add Alexandra to their website as its such a swing of extremes for a New Zealand climate
No worries .. got down -6.8 20 mins ago now warmed up to -6, will have to see what it is in morning.
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