General March Weather

CHCH Weather Chaser · Fri 29/03/2013 13:25

Cracker of a day here today. Blue dome skies, no wind and 27 degrees atm.

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Fri 29/03/2013 14:23

Same here who said it was autumn?

, 29C it was a light NE but now a strong gusty NWer has kicked in which i didnt think would make it to the coast today but it has.
Mid next week looks to be our first taste of winter with some snow down to 700-800m, with that im sure comes the chance of thunder and hail possibly.

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Fri 29/03/2013 17:28

NW has been rather strong at times with 24deg the max at 2.00.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Fri 29/03/2013 21:27

Storm Struck wrote: Mid next week looks to be our first taste of winter with some snow down to 700-800m, with that im sure comes the chance of thunder and hail possibly.

Yes, there could a twist from this weather we are having

Paul Gorman said something about that in the PRESS the other day, where about this time next month people will be saying "What drought?"

David · Unread post by **David** » Fri 29/03/2013 23:08

GFS suggesting the first real cold change on the way within a week, with 850mb temps down to -4C over the South Island, and 2C in the northern North Island

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sat 30/03/2013 07:29

Got woken by the sound of a shower this morning. Dewpoint now 16C.
Good for the lawn.

Looks to be the chance of a heavy shower or two developing over the western Waikato this afternoon.

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Sat 30/03/2013 08:01

NZstorm wrote: Looks to be the chance of a heavy shower or two developing over the western Waikato this afternoon.

Really? Kool. I'm heading to Raglan today so in the right spot.

David · Unread post by **David** » Sat 30/03/2013 09:27

Just had a brief heavy shower here

Quite warm overnight, I recorded a low of 17.8 (dropping again now)

seej · Unread post by **seej** » Sat 30/03/2013 10:31

David wrote:Starting to rain here

I took this photo (sorry about the kruddy quality and the delay in getting it up online) at around 3.20pm Wednesday from the Victoria Park Flyover bridge looking towards New Market. There was a small spiraling funnel cloud at this time at the left of the base of the larger cloud. It was very mobile and was disintegrating and reintegrating as it moved. Thought more people would have seen it. Quite a bit of convection around at the time.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sat 30/03/2013 11:00

Looks like it could be a funnel seej but its hard to be sure looking at the photo.

Latest run of 18Z GFS has showery conditions for Northland/Coromandal/Auckland, particularly later today.

24hr accumuated rainfall to 6am tomorrow.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sat 30/03/2013 11:17

Hopefully some decent shower activity on the way after an amazing March if you like settled weather.
Readings from todays Herald, Auckland sunshine 212.5hrs, rainfall 23mm, the average temperature will be over 19C.

CHCH Weather Chaser · Sat 30/03/2013 15:30

Another very nice day, not quite as warm as the 28 yesterday. 26 here today but once again it was no wind to speak of until just before 2pm. NE has come up last half and a half and temperature dropped to just over 24 degrees but still very nice.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sat 30/03/2013 16:20

Out at the Oxford A&P show today. Very warm and not much wind. Not bad for late March.

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Sat 30/03/2013 18:03

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:Out at the Oxford A&P show today. Very warm and not much wind. Not bad for late March.

Didnt see ya John,did you come over to the shearing? and yes it was very warm also there was a big whirlwind that picked up gazebo and sent it flying

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sat 30/03/2013 19:38

Richard wrote:
NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:Out at the Oxford A&P show today. Very warm and not much wind. Not bad for late March.
Didnt see ya John,did you come over to the shearing? and yes it was very warm also there was a big whirlwind that picked up gazebo and sent it flying

There was a good crowd out there today,lots of people. I did poke my nose into the shearing but didn't stick around for long. Didn't see the whirlwind,must of been after we left as it was rather calm and not much wind.

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Sun 31/03/2013 07:11

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:
Richard wrote: Didnt see ya John,did you come over to the shearing? and yes it was very warm also there was a big whirlwind that picked up gazebo and sent it flying
There was a good crowd out there today,lots of people. I did poke my nose into the shearing but didn't stick around for long. Didn't see the whirlwind,must of been after we left as it was rather calm and not much wind.

There was a couple of whirlwinds during the afternoon,there was another one about 3.00 that went over the shingle area in front of the club rooms,it picked up a heap of dust and a few kids balloons .
I was quite chuffed as i managed to take the trophy yesterday for the lowest points over all the seasons competitions.

Manukau heads obs · Sun 31/03/2013 07:54

I see Neslon/Collingwood area getting a good band of rain this morning

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sun 31/03/2013 08:29

Nice to see the towering cumulus clouds around Auckland this morning and a few showers are developing, plenty of moisture in the air, 17C dewpoint, temp 19C.

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Sun 31/03/2013 09:01

spwill wrote:Nice to see the towering cumulus clouds around Auckland this morning and a few showers are developing, plenty of moisture in the air, 17C dewpoint, temp 19C.

No sign of that sky here. It's all flat cloud. But does look like it will be hot once the sun burns off this cloud.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sun 31/03/2013 09:16

Small shower clouds here( photo) but good to see showers after such a stable period.

David · Unread post by **David** » Sun 31/03/2013 10:15

19C dewpoint here now, pretty warm for last day of March

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sun 31/03/2013 11:30

Richard wrote: I was quite chuffed as i managed to take the trophy yesterday for the lowest points over all the seasons competitions.

Good on yer mate

1.4mm of rain overnight, well,early this morning. Nice one.

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Sun 31/03/2013 14:08

getting rather muggy now. 25.6C with a 18.8 DP.

grass really browning off again fast. Took some photos and will post them on the drought page tonight.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sun 31/03/2013 14:17

jamie wrote:getting rather muggy now. 25.6C with a 18.8 DP.

Similar temps here with some low topped cb/showers to NW.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sun 31/03/2013 14:22

Some weak showers forming at times over West Ak (photo), radar shows better showers to the north.

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