General October Weather

[Flutterbye]

Raining here with some good thunder booming around the hills. Temp 13 deg.

Decent electrical storm down here from 3am onwards!

[melja]

In Twizel too, thunder booming since before first light this morning.
Very strong winds in the early hours and now calm and heavy rain-warm.

[Razor]

27 degrees here in suburban ChCh after 26 yesterday. Could the first 30 degree afternoon of the summer be on?

[moylanr]

Anyone elses lights dip off briefly a minute ago?

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

27 degrees here in suburban ChCh after 26 yesterday. Could the first 30 degree afternoon of the summer be on?

I doubt it.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Anyone elses lights dip off briefly a minute ago?

No. It's still daylight here so no need to have the lights on?

[mikestormchaser]

hmm interesting in the last hour looks like thunderstorms poped up over birdlings flat area going by radar, getting pushed out to sea though. and a convergance line not far from me in rolleston.
SW change has gone through here after a another warm day.

[NZstorm]

Jet stream earlier in the day over the South Island which produced the elevated storms.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

hmm interesting in the last hour looks like thunderstorms poped up over birdlings flat area going by radar, getting pushed out to sea though. and a convergance line not far from me in rolleston.
SW change has gone through here after a another warm day.

Yes, it looked very much like that from here, Mikey, but the NW too influential against the oncoming SW.
Back to NW again now.

[03Stormchaser]

As far as I am aware there wasnt lightning there.

[Storm Struck]

It was hardly much of a windchange here just the temperature drop, went W-SW briefly for about 5 minutes then back to westerly still reasonably mild now too on 15C.
It looks like this NW/SW pattern will keep up for some time yet even with the high in the central Tasman by the end of next week its sitting quite far north so will drift up over the north island top half as the deep lows barrel into the South Island.
Only downside to that is not much rain for eastern areas with an ongoing W-NW flow into next week things will start to dry out, its been good though latly getting abit of rain inbetween lows.

[spwill]

The NE of the North Island has been in the dry zone with this pattern
http://ftpmedia.niwa.co.nz/climate/mont ... n.png?1234

The earlier prediction by NIWA of a weaker than normal westerly pattern for Spring is looking off the mark.

[Tornado Tim]

I see some Thundershowers have developed over the Gisbourne Ranges atm.

[Orion]

Very pretty pink sunrise just now.
11.0 deg.

[Razor]

Another hot day, 25 here, was 27 half an hour ago

[Richard]

Hot aright,28deg ATM,NW wind died about 11.00 and winds been light since.

[David]

A stunning spring day here, blue skies with a low of 8C and a high of 19C, light SW winds

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Hot aright,28deg ATM,NW wind died about 11.00 and winds been light since.

I was going to do more chain-sawing today but I decided to mow the lawns in the garden, instead, as it was too hot with 24C, the maximum for today.

[Tornado Tim]

Despite the high getting up to 19.4, the Sun is really packing a punch now. It feels much warmer when your outside in the sun then a month ago.

[NZstorm]

Looking like the weather is trying to dry out in the north now.

Should be a clear day again today with a SW breeze.

Looks like a warm front south of Auckland on Wednesday.

[spwill]

The weather has been very pleasant lately, yes, that sun is strong now.
Those wanting rain in the north might have to wait until Friday, looks it will be humid here Friday with some rain before drier cooler air sweeps in for the long weekend.
Looks like it will turn cold in the south at the weekend, polar air lurking in the models.

[jamie]

Yea i was up the Tutukaka coast on the weekend. Stunning weaher there but notibly dryer than anywhere esle. I noticed the clover was already showing signs of moisture deficiency. Clover is the first plant to turn show signs but they could certainly do with a nice drop up on that east coast.

[NZstorm]

Stratocu slow to clear here today.

Elevated storm activity over the lower South Island today with the jet stream down there.

[David]

I've been watering small portions of the garden for the last few days, things are really drying out now. Doesn't look like any useful rain for the rest of the month either! Hope we are not heading into another dry summer

[Powermad]

Flashes in the foothills.. looks like Oxford way..