General July Weather

[jamie]

looking like July could be quite a dry one for many places with another big high looking like its going to plant its backside over NZ after this quick burst of rain late week/early week.

Not complaining though. dry winters are better than wet ones like we had last winter

[Tornado Tim]

The temp stayed in single digits all day, the cloud cover really kept it cool.

[Nev]

MetService have issued their first Severe Weather Warnings for heavy rain for the West Coast and Alps from later today, including up to 500mm in the Westland ranges during the next few days.
This morns Severe Weather Watch also includes heavy rain for the Buller ranges and western Nelson later from Fri/Sat.

[snowstormwatcher]

Very cold here after some thick high cloud moved in after the frost this morning, Currently 0.9 degrees with the lawn still covered in ice. Should warm up once this high cloud moves out east later this afternoon.

[Richard]

Amazing other way round here,its a lovely day here with a NW and 15deg

[snowstormwatcher]

I see Timaru airport only got to 7 degrees today a long way from their forecast high of 14c.
Managed to get to 5.7 here once the sun came out.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Fine day here compared to Timaru. NW cloud developing?
Any comments from people down there on this forum from there?

[melja]

There on 1 deg now with a overnight low of 6

[Dean.]

Northwest arch inland from here,temp around 13 degrees today and 8 degrees now.

[Tornado Tim]

The temp stayed in single digits all day, the cloud cover really kept it cool.

Average for the temperature the 11th: 4.2°C, quite low for here..... More weather data for the 11th here

[NZstorm]

GFS 2000ft wind chart for Sunday afternoon showing the prefrontal low level jet over the lower NI at 60kts! A good rain producing wind for the ranges. Could be 200mm on Mt Taranaki.

[spwill]

The rain could be bad news for some of our ski fileds. I think the lower slopes of Coronet Peak would be most at risk of catching rain, how far east will the heavy rain come ? Snow levels should come down on Monday.

[Tornado Tim]

Yes this event isn't much good for the peaks. Looks like if there is any snow on the peaks, it will be the wet slushy type.

[snowstormwatcher]

The rain could be bad news for some of our ski fileds. I think the lower slopes of Coronet Peak would be most at risk of catching rain, how far east will the heavy rain come ? Snow levels should come down on Monday.

Hopefully Mt Dobson is far enough east to miss most of the spillover rain as there very little snow up there now. This is shaping up to be the second bad season in a row. Need a wet cold easterly for heavy snow up there something which we haven't seen for a couple of years.

[Richard]

Sounds a bit like around here,chatting with some locals yesterday about how little snow is on the maintains near us.

Besides that,nice to have a morning with out a frost

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Yes, a mild day here reaching 17C. Thick clouds to the west so must be pouring down over there.
Haven't lit the fire yet, first time since we've been back.

[Dale]

Can't speak for others over here but it hasn't really been as heavy today as I had expected, although the grand total is now at 90mm since lunchtime yesterday. Still early days in this rain event however.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Can't speak for others over here but it hasn't really been as heavy today as I had expected, although the grand total is now at 90mm since lunchtime yesterday. Still early days in this rain event however.

Still a decent start to the event. Although not looking at bad in that area now. GFS has it more of affecting Buller and Northwest Nelson it would seem for the SI.

[Michael]

Must be above average sun and dry for july,up till yesterday was colder than usual,but its feels tropical after the 3c mornings for a week.

[melja]

Not a big rain event on the coast by the looks of it with only 200mm yesturday and bugger all so far today.
Hasst had around 220mm
Arthurs pass only 95mm so far
My olds now living at kumara junction have had only 49mm and not much wind for there wind turbine.

[Dean.]

Round two building nicely in the Tasman though...Greymouth north to cop the worst.

[Dale]

Well I can add another 140mm to the above, it was fair flogging down earlier, almost approaching the rates which caused the flood events last month. Raleigh Creek seems to be flowing quite freely.. which means the council have actually done something right! (tongue in cheek haha).. so I guess accumulative totals so far have been pretty close to spot on!

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

I think the worst of this system for areas north of Greymouth is still to come with the secondary band later tonight. Could be some very large isolated amounts with this. I see Takaka area approaching 90mm there now with 24 hours of heavy rain to continue there.

[Richard]

Warmest morning for ages here on 13 deg and a rather strong NW,wouldn't mind a for more days like this,skiers sorry

[Dean.]

Heavy rain here in Hanmer