General January weather

[Manukau heads obs]

I see reports that honey will get more expensive
due to bees not getting out much due to the poor summer weather
(windy and cool)
in many parts of the north island and southland, etc

[jamie]

Thats interesting brian. There is talk around here that the cool weather is having a major effect on the development of maize crops. They are struggling majorly with the cold nights.

[Manukau heads obs]

check it out
http://ftpmedia.niwa.co.nz/climate/mont ... p.png?1234
all of the SI below normal temperature and only the hawkes bay in the NI not below normal temperature

[melja]

Some grain farmers I have talked to have said they are not even getting there crop to half fence height.

[melja]

Cracker day today but the NE is getting up a little, I see timaru is on 29C with a NE wind.

[David]

Brilliant day here. Mainly clear with a gentle NE sea breeze.
Here's a pic I took at Howick Beach around midday. Unfortunately the tide was out...

[Richard]

Brilliant day here too,light NE wind and last time i looked it was just on 30deg

[David]

GFS thinking there might be some decent rainfall across the North Island on 5 Feb

[Manukau heads obs]

the models have been all over the place for whats going to happen from stuff from the tropics
something a week out at this stage is just aritistic license

[David]

Yeah I know it will change, but I think it's encouraging to see some uncertainty in the models rather than seeing highs all the time

[Manukau heads obs]

its about time these SW winds are gone already, LOL

[Dean.]

EC have it mostly fine...GFS will follow as usual.
I hope its fine...spending a week in Gissy

[Michael]

Like 1983 though not as showey as then.

[spwill]

The pattern change is not so good Gisborne, would expect plenty of cloud there over the next week, they have had a good January with all the westerly flow.

[Dean.]

Hoping those weakening subtropical lows push further east than currently modelled.

[RWood]

Like 1983 though not as showey as then.

The dry zones were much more extensive in 1983, and the wettest ones far wetter than this time (record Jan high at Milford). Kelburn had only 15mm in Jan 1983, but over 130mm this month. It was also a much sunnier month for us then, though very cool.

[Nev]

A pleasant 25.7C here at about 3:40pm, making it this month's warmest day, albeit the last one, lol.

[spwill]

Some of the sheltered Waiheke Island Bays must get very warm in sunny weather. I was at Little Oneroa on Wednesday/Thursday, very nice.

[Nev]

Yes, not much flat land on Waiheke, so there can be a lot of variant micro-climates, moreso between the north and south sides.


Slightly OT, but Jim twice mentioned tonight that ex-TC Dylan was producing good rainfalls and thunderstorms to the Cairns area. It missed Cairns completely and it doesn't look like they've had a drop in the last 2 days, Grrrrrrr!.

[Dean.]

Yes, not much flat land on Waiheke, so there can be a lot of variant micro-climates, moreso between the north and south sides.


Slightly OT, but Jim twice mentioned tonight that ex-TC Dylan was producing good rainfalls and thunderstorms to the Cairns area. It missed Cairns completely and it doesn't look like they've had a drop in the last 2 days, Grrrrrrr!.

Agree, crossed 550 kms to the south of Cairns.Media in NZ pretty average when it comes to reporting the weather.Cairns well to the north of the monsoon trough,been a dry wet up there so far.

[einzack]

cool month that ended with 4 warm days to cheer us all up a bit.
average temp was 14.9°C - over 2°C less than 2013 and 1.2°C cooler than 2012.
140mm of rain - 50mm less than last year, but from 18 rain days, which was a lot (2012 = 12, 2013 = 14), and why it felt like a pretty miserable month.

[David]

For Howick, my stats were:

Avg daily min 14.3C
Avg daily max 23.6C
Coldest 10.9C
Hottest 27.3C
Rainfall 35mm.

[Manukau heads obs]

1.5C colder than last 10 years normal for here
windspeed up on normal too (all those SW winds)
http://www.weather-display.com/windy/gb ... 12014.html

[Skywatcher]

For my station:

Ave min: 10.6C
Ave max: 23.3C
Mean: 16.4C (0.2C less than station average)

Min: 4.7C on 24th
Max: 33.3C on 19th

Rain: 18mm on 7 days with 8mm on 21st

[David]

1.5C colder than last 10 years normal for here
windspeed up on normal too (all those SW winds)
http://www.weather-display.com/windy/gb ... 12014.html

Did you notice your records are showing a min of 3.9C on the 17th and 4.7C on the 25th? That will be lowering your avg min quite a bit...