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Looks like a NW flow for much of the first week of January. Also looks like some really warm temperatures in some places. Here is an 850mb temperature chart for 1am Sunday 5th:

yea i saw this earlier today. If you do the rule of thumb from 850mb temps of plus 10 we could be hitting 30 here.

An unsettled look to NZ weather for the first part of Jan.

When was the last January we had such an unsettled start? all I can remember is highs becoming dominant around this time before the northern lows snuck in around the end of the month and into February.
Looks unsettled even out past the 9th January looks like a rather large low in the south Tasman, and a deep one for this Sunday too interesting weather making it challenging for campers.

Looking like spillover lightning possible for Canterbury next weekend (elevated cb).

300mb jet next Saturday 12pm.

I see M/S going for thunderstorms over top half of NI tomorrow arvo
http://metservice.com/warnings/severe-t ... rm-outlook

often they run down the coast and hit Raglan, in a NW wind

will be watching!

Hope everyone had a happy New Year's Eve.

A relatively cool, tranquil start to 2014 here with 11.2C around dawn… up to about 18C now.

The disturbed westerly pattern modelled for the coming week will give Gisborne/Napier a hot spell will multiple days of 30C by the looks.

There is much better weather on the way for the holiday areas of eastern Northland , Coromandel, Bay of Plenty, and Gisborne. The looser might be the Southern Lakes , spells of gusty winds and rain look likely there in the coming days.

Sparkling day today!
Looks like a couple of fronts attack the west of the North Island in the next 2-3 days although it looks like Taranaki region gets the brunt of the rain and possible thunder.

NZstorm wrote:Sparkling day today!

Potential for hot temperatures from tomorrow onwards - do you think Auckland will see enough sunshine to push past 27C at all?

David wrote:

NZstorm wrote:Sparkling day today!

Potential for hot temperatures from tomorrow onwards - do you think Auckland will see enough sunshine to push past 27C at all?

With NW flow low clouds tend to burn back over Auckland.

aucklanders, its going to be a real nice sunset...heads up
(due to a layer of alto cumulus)

For more typical summer weather there needs to be a blocking high over the Chathams, but its still early Jan , another 2 weeks and we can only hope for a week trough to move down from the N/NE fingers crossed

Raining heavy here from the NW at the moment

Has been raining here earlier this morning; gusty NW again now after a lull.

Yes had the normal lull in the wind when the rain arrived here too,had 11mm and still coming down.

some of you guys in the Canterbury region have had much more rain than normal recently yes? seems your getting 10-30mm every week at the moment.

Yes,its turning into a great season alright Jamie,though by the looks of the radar in and CHCH didn't get much this morning,suns out now and 13mm in total today.
By the look of the models Wednesday coming looks like more rain again for eastern areas.

Another spectacular day here, mostly sunny, 23C, light NNE breeze.
Dewpoint is 18C so it sure is sweaty work doing the gardening!

Lots of cumulus cloud here now... must be the NW converging with the NNE breeze

Magic day here 26 degrees and rising

NWer here gusting to 43 kts (80kmh)
which is alot stronger than the 20 knots in the marine forecast

Manukau heads obs wrote:NWer here gusting to 43 kts (80kmh)
which is alot stronger than the 20 knots in the marine forecast

It always amazes me how you can get such a strong NW over there but it struggles to make it this far inland

yeah...its a classic pressure wind setup