General October Weather

[Thunder]

Yes Leighton, have noticed that too. Quite unusual.

Almost something you could expect lightning to come out of, but 500mb level looks like there is a fair amount of warming so might be some lower down instability? Would love some lightning though!

[tich]

Pretty strange, can see the shower on the radar. Only partly cloudy in St Albans.

[Storm Struck]

An isolated convergence maybe? could be southerly south of Templeton and NE over the city.
It still doesnt explain why something would develope so quickly and that intense without day time heating etc.

[Razor]

Wasnothing here in Cracroft, dry's a bone. Strange.

[mikestormchaser]

seen it to, and theres like a trough coming up from south, nothing was forcarst..

[Richard]

Great to be back up and running again,i was wondering what the hell was going on.

Just a cloudy morning here,dont mind if it stays like this as i have to spend the day walking the hills.

[cantygal]

While the forum was offline I checked out other sites over the weekend. Are there only a handful of the same contributors on here? Just seems to lack any variety or new people whereas years ago there was always something new.Just wonder if it could get a facelift or be more welcoming for newbies? Cheers

[Richard]

Yer it would be good if we had more members from other areas like the West Coast,east coast of the NI,Northland etc,but still....she would be a bit boring if we didnt have the weather to talk about hey.

[Manukau heads obs]

right on the edge of the front there...waiuku getting good rain...
looks like it might move back onto us here....

[David]

right on the edge of the fron there...waiuku getting good rain...
looks like it might move back onto us here....

It's just edged back onto us in Howick now

[Razor]

Glorious sun drenched day here in Canterbury again

[cantygal]

I'm getting a tan as i weed the vege garden.Anyone else in a bikini ?

[Manukau heads obs]

not bikini weathe here at the momentm LOL
dull, grey, 13C and rainining
so I just have to imagine....

[moylanr]

Photo from central Christchurch just after 1 pm today (looking WNW past where Price Waterhouse building use to be, Forsyth Barr building still there on the left):

[Richard]

Today felt for the first time that summer is just around the corner with 25deg

[snowstormwatcher]

Yeah same here, Fine day with a max of 22 degrees.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

.Anyone else in a bikini ?

Yes. I wore mine today
Anyway, good to see the forum back up and running. Thanks Will.
During the outage, there was the Weathwatch.co nz, you know Paul Duncan's website, to fall back on, and I was quite surprised that they hadn't heard of the NZ Weather Forum??????????? in a comment that i made ?

[Thunder]

lol, John in a Bikini eh.

But yes, great summers day. NE did cool things down in the afternoon a little. Should be nice again tomorrow, quite settled this week for most of the country. No storms in sight

Phil and Richard know the forum of course, I can't explain that one. Will ask Richard when I see him next, lol.

[NZstorm]

Thanks Will for your efforts on getting the forum back up.

14C with rain at midday here today but 21C partly cloudy by 4pm.

[Manukau heads obs]

one thing I notice after posting, for me anyway..I get redirected back to the front page?

[David]

A fohn SE for Auckland tomorrow?

(edit, I got redirected too Brian after posting this...)

[Richard]

Another warm one coming up once it warms from 2deg ATM

[Andy]

Another warm one coming up once it warms from 2deg ATM

Yep summer has made it at last!

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Nice, I see metservice going for 25 here tomorrow and 26 on Thursday!

[Tornado Tim]

one thing I notice after posting, for me anyway..I get redirected back to the front page?

Ah yes, this has been a issue for a bit: Referenced Post, could you re-report it in that forum. Thanks.

It was fairly warm yesterday: 22.6°C here and 22.8°C @ Hamilton AP. A little cooler at Horsham Downs with a high of 21.2°C.