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Richard wrote:

Jasestorm wrote: i see one of the showers may have been a brief thunderstorm up near Waikari North Canterbury going by the hourly radars.

It did look like there may have been but no there wasnt a thunderstorm Jase,dam it all,though there was a heavy shower coming through Waipara

You were right Jase,there was a single clap of thunder over Amberley according to a bloke i was talking to today

A nice makeral sky out there at the moment

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:A nice makeral sky out there at the moment

That would be nice watching the makeral sky eating some macaroon biscuits with a cup of coffee

A few weak forms of cumulus about again today with another weak front flicking the peninnsula this morning, other then that an all round nice day really.

More thunderstorms for the Central Plateax to Gisborne Ranges again this afternoon.

Cloud /sunshine mix here today, fresh SW, 11-20C, typical Auckland weather for November.

December is usually when convergence lines start to turn thundery here, so hopefully not long to go

Partly to mostly cloudy here atm with 18°C and a WNW breeze.

NW wind has just kicked in here,got nice and warm before the change,23deg

Richard wrote:NW wind has just kicked in here,got nice and warm before the change,23deg

Touching 20deg here in chch, still a fresh ENE atm waiting for that NW to fire up to warm things up here.

21 degrees here. Cant see it getting any warmer though with a thick vale of NW cloud coming over the mountains.

snowstormwatcher wrote:21 degrees here. Cant see it getting any warmer though with a thick vale of NW cloud coming over the mountains.

That cloud is a sign of the increasing NW flow
MetService shows Banks Peninsula on 24C with the Christchurch eastern suburbs on 13.3C, the MS city temps maps occasionally look silly.

03Stormchaser wrote:
Touching 20deg here in chch, still a fresh ENE atm waiting for that NW to fire up to warm things up here.

Maybe not too far away as the NW is getting rather strong at times now

spwill wrote:

snowstormwatcher wrote:21 degrees here. Cant see it getting any warmer though with a thick vale of NW cloud coming over the mountains.

That cloud is a sign of the increasing NW flow
MetService shows Banks Peninsula on 24C with the Christchurch eastern suburbs on 13.3C, the MS city temps maps occasionally look silly.

Cold breeze and around 12 degrees at New Brighton beach before...nice and warm back home in Ashburton with 22.

Possibly the cooling due to onshore breezes. I see Timaru and "Oh Arm a Roo" are cooler too. Warmer here at 22C with a light NE, not NW yet.

Must be localised to New Brighton etc as its been hovering 19-21C here for much of the day and im on the coast, no NW as yet but its got that feel of changing time between NE/NW.
Might push 25C if the NW arrives soon before that high cloud.
Finally nice to see a pattern reforming in the models slowly from next week onwards as the systems get stronger again, just in time for December where thunderstorm chances become greater .

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:Possibly the cooling due to onshore breezes. I see Timaru and "Oh Arm a Roo" are cooler too. Warmer here at 22C with a light NE, not NW yet.

Yes the usual seabreeze for that part of ChCh.High cloud drifting over now from the west,slightly cooler.

29.5 in Blenheim and 13.7 in Oamaru

Now below 20C with thickening high cloud cover and a NW Arch developing. NE (can hear Ruapuna quite clearly) wind still in predominence

Cooling down here also from a high of 24.5 earlier on,currently 17deg

still waiting for the northwest !

Some humid weather on the way for areas north of Hamilton from tomorrow for a few days.

Cloud/sunshine mix here today, SW breeze, 13 -21C.

NW here all afternoon some quite strong gusts as well, Currently 23 degrees which is the high for day.

snowstormwatcher wrote:NW here all afternoon some quite strong gusts as well, Currently 23 degrees which is the high for day.

Pushed through here now....a pleasant evening!

The NW finally arrived here at 1657hrs.
Probably because of the cloud cover, no temperature increase, actually it dropped by a few marks, ie from 19.8C to 19.7C. Now 19C with the NWster still blowing away there

Looks like Blenheim Aero is the first to officially to crack the 30C mark this season. Its 30.1C yesterday was also just the 8th time it has exceeded 30.0C in Nov since records began in 1941 (incl. 3 days in 1997). Its highest ever Nov temp was 32.8C in 2007 (also on the 25th).

Looks like the November frosts have meant upto 30% of Otago's wine production has been lost this growing season.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news ... d=10849723


And glancing the gfs this morning more bitterly cold air could affect the south later in the week. Fingers crossed it will pass off to the east of the country.

It has been a cool/cold November, Niwa outlooks favoured average to above average temperatures. Niwa outlooks are for a 3 month period.