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Re: General August Weather

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third day in a row of cracking days on the coast.
19.9°C on saturday, 19.5°C on sunday and 18.2°C so far today.
i even mowed my lawn yesterday.
yes, i know it will end soon, but enjoying it while it lasts.
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I see isolated Thundershowers are occurring now in Western Waikato. Rather surprising :)
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Yes, thunderstorm here at Hampton Downs
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Very cold air at 700mb's/Easterly surge which was pointing to showers today. I did think hail when I looked at the soundings this morn.
But no showers in Central Auckland.
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Yes , there was small hail in slow moving heavy showers just south of the Bombay Hills late afternoon between Hampton Downs and Pokeno, isolated thunder/lightning observed.
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Short-lived, but fairly intense small cell dumped 9.5mm here in less than 10 minutes around 5:30pm. 8-o
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Heavy shower here now
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Nice to see Invercargill being the nation's national high with 19C. :rolleyes:
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Could get quite cold tonight. Colder than the 5 forecast anyway. Down to 6 already.
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Our coldest temperature in Howick this month is only 8.2C 0_o A very noticeable lack of cold nights
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Tasman Sea front inbound but doesn't look like it will reach Auckland until early tomorrow.
While the instability has largely dropped out of the front there will still be upto 100j/kg CAPE with the front tonight so a thunderstorm or two not out of the question. More possible top of Northland.

Cold upper air coming into the west of the North Island early Friday with thunder likely in the west.

Friday 6am 500mb temps. Looking cold!
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Some rain in Auckland now from the old trough line that had been over the area last day or two. Maybe a bit of a warm front affect with it also as milder air starts to come in.
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Interesting that there has been no wintry systems with low level cold air reaching NZ since mid July, a Winter of two halves :-)

An isolated storm showing up in the Hauraki Gulf last hr.
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A maximum of only 13C here today due to cloud cover and patchy rain, I think the coolest maximum here since mid July . Min was 10C, dewpoint currently 11C.
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15mm here so far today, thankfully it stopped around 5pm just in time for my walk home from the bust stop :)
Max of 13.3C here, definitely the coldest day for a while.
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Tomorrow Thursday should be a fine day for Auckland, skew t says 17C.

Still more rain to come tonight, 17mm so far. And may get a heavy cb shower with the frontal change.
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Yea 15mm here so far. Falling steadily and should peak in intensity tonight with the frontal change. Could get another 15mm I suppose. Which I'm sure will be welcomed.
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spwill wrote:Interesting that there has been no wintry systems with low level cold air reaching NZ since mid July, a Winter of two halves :-)
Yes. I have noticed anticyclones have been intensifying to the SE of us, enhancing the 'warmer' airflows over us. :smile:
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Some embedded lightning activity going on just NE offshore Auckland atm.
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Managed 36mm from this event. Very decent. Now back on track for monthly average.
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32mm fell in Grey Lynn.

Next trough line coming into the west overnight tonight and crosses slowly tomorrow. While not a lot of rain in it the airmass is cold unstable.
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Tornado Tim wrote:Some embedded lightning activity going on just NE offshore Auckland atm.
Yes, quite a spectacular lightning show in the outer Gulf late last night. Looked to be mostly towards the Kawau area from here (maybe closer), with very audible distant rumbles. Became very active for about an hour from around 10:30pm, and still the odd strike by the time it passed over here. Total of 26mm here since yesterday morn.
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Nev wrote:
Tornado Tim wrote:Some embedded lightning activity going on just NE offshore Auckland atm.
Yes, quite a spectacular lightning show in the outer Gulf late last night. Looked to be mostly towards the Kawau area from here (maybe closer), with very audible distant rumbles. Became very active for about an hour from around 10:30pm, and still the odd strike by the time it passed over here. Total of 26mm here since yesterday morn.
Lucky you :) I was hoping to hear some thunder but nothing heard from here. I recorded 29mm for this rain event.
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Towering Cu in our skies this afternoon. Isolated thunder showers showing up for Northland and Taranaki
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A heavy heat shower here, there were tiny hailstones for a brief moment as well.
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