General January weather

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Sat 04/01/2014 16:37

Risk of a storm moving up east coast tomorrow late afternoon evening, pushing off shore south of Bp like they tend to.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sat 04/01/2014 17:26

03Stormchaser wrote:Risk of a storm moving up east coast tomorrow late afternoon evening, pushing off shore south of Bp like they tend to.

GFS has been advertising south Otago for tomorrow.

That cold trough next week could be interesting.

Nev · Unread post by **Nev** » Sat 04/01/2014 17:44

Manukau heads obs wrote:the next frontal rain band looks impressive on the rain radar
looks like we might get the top end of it here...

Yes, may just scrape south Akld in the next hour or so...

Just had a nice wee shower here - barely see it on MS's radar-image, but shows up well on WZ.
A 'sultry' 25.8C here earlier.

Manukau heads obs · Sat 04/01/2014 18:37

yup, we going to get it here

(looking nice and black out to the west here now)

einzack · Unread post by **einzack** » Sat 04/01/2014 19:47

up to 12 consecutive rain days and counting.
if forecast is correct, could beat my station record of 16 days.
camping in Hokitika last 3 days - gumboots absolutely essential. had quite a few comments from tourists about how clever it was to have thought of wearing them. not what summer holidays are supposed to be like.

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Sat 04/01/2014 20:27

Sure got hot today with that humidity. Was up over 26. Nothing like Queensland has had today tho.

This rain is falling apart fast. We are only getting a few spits here.

Manukau heads obs · Sun 05/01/2014 06:53

yeah you could see the rain falling higher up but not alot was making it to the ground
great looking wave clouds and castellanas

minimm of only 20.1C here overnight

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Sun 05/01/2014 07:28

Low of 19.4. Without air con and keeping the house shut to reduce mozzies and flys our 7 week old hates it. To be fair I do too!

Manukau heads obs · Sun 05/01/2014 07:46

just after I posted that we had a shower of rain which dropped the temperature 0.5

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sun 05/01/2014 08:24

GFS brings a cold trough onto the North Island on Thursday, looks unusual for Jan. Cool /cold weather for NZ as this system moves through from mid week.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sun 05/01/2014 08:33

Its fair to say its not been the greatest of summers so far and regions like Central Otago have had a lot poor weather. None of those big 30C+ temperatures yet down there this year.

David · Unread post by **David** » Sun 05/01/2014 08:39

Another hot night with a low of 19.7C. Yesterday's 24 hour average temp of 22.9C is the 2nd-equal highest I have recorded (the only warmer day was in Feb 2011)

CHCH Weather Chaser · Sun 05/01/2014 09:16

Already 28 degrees here with a light NNE breeze. Although will cool down shortly with high cloud increasing.

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Sun 05/01/2014 10:05

CHCH Weather Chaser wrote:Already 28 degrees here with a light NNE breeze. Although will cool down shortly with high cloud increasing.

This rain will cause the temp to drop even more. Although shouldn't last long

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Sun 05/01/2014 11:22

NZstorm wrote:Its fair to say its not been the greatest of summers so far and regions like Central Otago have had a lot poor weather. None of those big 30C+ temperatures yet down there this year.

Yes none of those slow moving anticyclones over NZ yet,so only two days 30+ here.

Strong NW here this morning and 25deg

David · Unread post by **David** » Sun 05/01/2014 11:27

Hopefully some rain coming this afternoon. Currently it's overcast, 22C, light NE breeze.
Nice change from yesterday's heat (though it is still humid).

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Sun 05/01/2014 13:24

That rain band that crossed this morning from the NW has now flared up into a storm offshore, could be some isolated storms south of Christchurch later on quite an unstable skies set up looking further south down the plains with CB's visable to the west.
Definatly a wind convergence set up today, the wind is gusty NW here but E-SE south of Christchurch down the coastline.

Tornado Tim · Unread post by **Tornado Tim** » Sun 05/01/2014 13:27

Looks like the rain coming in now, will ease very soon. A pity, hopefully we get more with this active more spring like pattern.

Manukau heads obs · Sun 05/01/2014 13:28

blowing a gale here at times
53 (98kmh) knots maximum gust

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Sun 05/01/2014 13:37

Must be all that here too,but its not gusty, just a steady strong wind

Orion · Unread post by **Orion** » Sun 05/01/2014 13:53

I'm sure I heard a roll of thunder two minutes ago

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Sun 05/01/2014 13:56

I've had just 2mm but in Hamilton CBD earlier we would have had 5-10mm from one shower alone while I was in there.

Dean. · Unread post by **Dean.** » Sun 05/01/2014 13:57

Orion wrote:I'm sure I heard a roll of thunder two minutes ago

Confirmed...looking quite dark to my southwest.

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Sun 05/01/2014 13:57

Thunderstorm just popped up down Mt Peel way inland from Ashburton to the west.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sun 05/01/2014 14:16

Storm Struck wrote:Thunderstorm just popped up down Mt Peel way inland from Ashburton to the west.

Can see it from here, down TC way. Strong NW wind change half of an hour ago with rise in temperature.

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