General October Weather

[spwill]

Tend to get a lot of ridging over northern NZ from about now( mid October), instability and rain tend to arrive more on the back of higher surface dewpoints than cold upper level temperatures.

Tomorrow will have a warm feel with some 15C dewpoint air arriving

[Manukau heads obs]

this tasman lows sure is winding up nicely on the sat image

[jamie]

models suggesting a low meeting the 24 hpa drop in less than 24 hours criteria for a 'bomb' low this weekend. Could be an interesting few days on the westland.

[03Stormchaser]

I see Sugarloaf here on the port hills is gusting to 76.0kmph in this NW today.

[Storm Struck]

Looking like a very changeable week ahead very W-SW at times, maybe a thunder and hail shot for Canterbury on Thursday afternoon something to keep watch on.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Looking like a very changeable week ahead very W-SW at times, maybe a thunder and hail shot for Canterbury on Thursday afternoon something to keep watch on.

According to ECMWF there could be a "Drewey Side rod" systems of lows moving east at the moment

[Richard]

Its been a day of winds from all directions here today with it finally swinging back to a rather breezy NW at 3.00pm

[03Stormchaser]

Should be a nice evening for the football tomorrow night.

[snowstormwatcher]

Up to 23 degrees here this afternoon before a southerly arrived and dropped the temperature down to 14c now.

[littleheaven]

Extremely windy here in Glenfield this morning. Strong squall passing through right now. It's rubbish day, and the paper recycling is everywhere, the street looks like an obstacle course. Someone's recycling bin has blown over and all the bottles tipped out.

[Michael]

Windier of course than yesterday,A straight westerly is not a bad direction here as it was yesterday.

[NZstorm]

Hanmer Springs webcam shows some snow accumulating there this morning and now melting away.

[snowstormwatcher]

Snow down to around 500m here overnight, Very patchy though with only certain areas receiving precipitation.
Fine today with a gusty cool westerly.

[Tornado Tim]

Very Windy for the Waikato this afternoon, gusting up to 66ks/hr!

[David]

Windiest day of the year here, gusts to 66 km/h

[jamie]

When will this wind just bugger off! Its by far worse than normal.

Look at these past week and 24 hour graphs

[Michael]

wind is making up for the winter,in early 2000s etc used to blow gales nearly every day for 6 months.

[Richard]

The NW wind has just kicked in,should warm things up after a cold start.

[NZstorm]

Looks like a fairly decent warm front develops over the North Island tomorrow with heavy rain but just a few mm for Auckland.

The cold W flow over east Otago tomorrow with low level onshore E flow should lead to isolated convergence thunder/hail pm.

500mb chart for 06Z Sunday. Quite a strong thermal contrast over NZ with subtropical air in the north and polar air moving into the south.

[Richard]

Gees that is a huge contrast over NZ alright

[Manukau heads obs]

just back from a week of school camp, motutapu island
windy all week
rough trip back on a small ferry yesterday lunch time with gusts to 45 knots around bean rock

[Dean.]

Fairly high chance I will see some snow overnight Sunday in Tekapo at 700metres.

[Richard]

just back from a week of school camp, motutapu island
windy all week
rough trip back on a small ferry yesterday lunch time with gusts to 45 knots around bean rock

welcome back,school camps are always a bit of fun hey.

[NZstorm]

Elevated storms on the warm front out to our west. Even a couple of recent strikes over western Waikato!

[Manukau heads obs]

gale NW here, gusts to 87kmh
looks like some elevated showers to come through here soon