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The NW managed to blow over night with the odd strong gust,overnight low of 6.5deg
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17 balmy degrees. That's what we ended up reaching yesterday in the end too. Such a great run over the last while with the lack of winds. Cant remember the last night we had an annoying NE.
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Min of 10C, max 18C for Greylynn, cloud/sunshine mix, light SW wind.
Almost frost free here so far this Winter.
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Certainly wouldnt put Auckland on the sunshine "stakes" this winter,been bout 2 hours if that today,maybe 20 max hours the last 10 days.
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Boring weather lately but the same cant be said about that rugby game. Chiefs!
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jamie wrote:Boring weather lately but the same cant be said about that rugby game. Chiefs!
Yes good game,boring but nice weather though,still a mild NW wind blowing here for the last 4 straight days
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Michael wrote:Certainly wouldnt put Auckland on the sunshine "stakes" this winter,been bout 2 hours if that today,maybe 20 max hours the last 10 days.
It has been much sunnier this end of Auckland then Michael but yes July has been on the cloudy side of average.

Missed the game last night and I was in Waikato but I must watch the final next week
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Yet another cracker of a day with no wind once again and blue dome skies. 17 warm degrees.
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Tprobably 14 here,rickys thing shows 17.7 max must be sunnier in town,can see blue to the east,how far away,who knows.,dont think its been over 15 here,even the herald shows that.
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CHCH Weather Chaser wrote:Yet another cracker of a day with no wind once again and blue dome skies. 17 warm degrees.
Same temp as here but with a moderate NW wind
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Yep another great day here too. 15c currently with blue skies and a light NW.
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Cloud/sunshine mix here, pleasant temps after a cold start, down to 5C at Greylynn :>
A change in our weather coming up this week with a sub tropical low affecting NE NZ, something to watch.
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14.8 degrees, blue skies, sunny;
very pleasant: birds singing, quite springlike :D
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Ended up with 18 as the high here. Dropping ever so slightly now, back down towards 17. Average wind speed today is 1km/h. The last 8 days has seen 7 of those days with the temperature 15 or higher.
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Hardly the "chaotic weather pattern" reportedly predicted in the headlines of July 16th - [which to me sounded like our usual '7-to-10-day weather pattern', that I learned about in 5th-form Geography when dinosaurs roamed the earth, anyway]
Most acceptable :smile:
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David wrote:Looking like we're not even going to reach 50mm this month! That would make it the driest July since July 1993, during which only 25mm was recorded at Owairaka.
Yes, Mangere only has 32mm so far this month, so unless we get a few mm's from that subtropical low before 9am on Thursday, it will be its second lowest July rainfall after the 26mm it recorded in 1993 since records began in 1959.
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Beautiful cloud-forms overhead at the moment - some "mackerel sky" and short "mares' tails", quite striking.
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Fog finally just cleared. If there is one thing that i could change about hamiltons weather, it has to be the amount of fog we get.

Is there anyway of finding out the number of hours of fog per year experienced around the country? Im sure Hamilton/waikato would have the most.
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jamie wrote:
Is there anyway of finding out the number of hours of fog per year experienced around the country? Im sure Hamilton/waikato would have the most.

Average annual days in which fog is reported from the following airports.

Auckland 19
Hamilton 92
Wellington 6
Christchurch 50
Dunedin 64
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NZstorm wrote:
jamie wrote:
Is there anyway of finding out the number of hours of fog per year experienced around the country? Im sure Hamilton/waikato would have the most.

Average annual total of days in which fog is reported from the following airports.
A fog day is when the visibility is reduced to 1000m or less.

Auckland 19
Hamilton 92
Wellington 6
Christchurch 50
Dunedin 64
Interesting and i wonder how long the fog is reported for? During winter we are very lucky if fog clears before 9am. Its usually in the hours either side of about 11am that it does clear. Can not lift at all some days.
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Luckily we don't get much fog in Auckland city, 10days of fog occurrence on average.

Whenuapai airport has 54days, so foggy out west.
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NZstorm wrote:Luckily we don't get much fog in Auckland city, 10days of fog occurrence on average.
I would say less than 10 days in Howick, 10 just seems too high :lol:
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I see some very moist air showing up over the upper North Island for this weekend on the GFS , good for fog at this time of year if you can get the cloud clearing at night for cooling.
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Some awesome radiation fog here this evening. Took this photo earlier of Huntly power stations cloud and u can just make out the fog beginning. Now it's too dark to pick it up in camera but looks really neat. It's probably contained to 2m above ground but it is slowly rising higher.
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Weird fog here currently. That radiation fog I mentioned has got very very thick. We can't see lights just 150m away and can't see objects less than 20m away. BUT the crazy thing is its only to about 3m off the ground. We have a star filled clear sky visable.
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