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General February Weather

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Another dry month?
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I hope not. The rain we got last weekend is well gone from the soil
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Theres an interesting feature showing up for mid next week over the south island, the east coast could get some well needed rainfall maybe between 40-60mm variable for different parts of Otago, Canterbury and Marlborough.
Still a fair way out but would be great in a way :-)
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In Palmy North atm, going through Taupo the grass is really brown.... Definitely don't won't it be a dry month......
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Interesting wind day today. Had a dry south east turn to a moist west or sw sea breeze for the afternoon (4-6) That was then over powered by the dry south east. My dew point shows the changes really well.
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SE change here about 50 minutes ago has pushed the humidity down to 58%, unusually low at this time of night!
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There has been very little in the way of humid weather this Summer so far.
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has made sleeping at night easy
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yea i dont think we have even come close to a 20*C night yet. Good for the spore counts in the grass for facial eczema
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We havn't had a humid summer in Auckland for a few years now.

The GFS and European differ on the movement of the upper trough mid week. EU scenario will give us better precip chances and I think EU will prove correct.
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MetService have just issued this forecast for Canty Plains this week. Is this all the moisture we're going to get??
Extended Regional Forecast for Canterbury Plains
Today: Cloud breaking and becoming fine this afternoon.Light
winds.
Monday: Fine. Northeasterlies about the coast, light winds inland.
Tuesday: Mainly fine, areas of morning and evening cloud.
Northeasterlies dying out, southwest breezes developing.
Wednesday: Cloudy periods, a few early showers, patchy evening drizzle.
Southerly breezes.
Thursday: Cloudy periods with patchy drizzle, mainly morning and
evening. Winds tending easterly.
Friday: Cloudy periods with patchy drizzle, mainly morning and
evening. Easterly breezes.
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I wonder if we'll get our first 30°C day today?
hit 28.1°C just before so it's possible, but I don't think we will.
this time last year we'd had ten 30°C+ days so we're due one.
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Perfect summer day in Howick, mainly clear sunny skies, max 25C, NE sea breeze. Fairly comfortable with a 13C dewpoint :)
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Perfect summer day here as well with 26deg
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The MS have me puzzled again but laughing at the same time :lol: , all the maps I am looking at point to steady/brief heavy scattered rain on Wednesday clearing for Waitangi.
Not as much as the models were showing yesterday of 60mm possible but a good 20-30mm atleast, anyway they only forecast drizzle for Christchurch =D> .
Unless they are factoring in any sheltering but it will be southerly so shouldn't be too much of an issue and even so if there was more heavier rain inland then the city would still get moderate to light patchy falls.
Oh and they have a low risk of heavy rain reaching warning criteria on the weather outlook, must be the weekend shift eh :B
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Storm Struck wrote:The MS have me puzzled again but laughing at the same time :lol: , all the maps I am looking at point to steady/brief heavy scattered rain on Wednesday clearing for Waitangi.
Not as much as the models were showing yesterday of 60mm possible but a good 20-30mm atleast, anyway they only forecast drizzle for Christchurch =D> .
Unless they are factoring in any sheltering but it will be southerly so shouldn't be too much of an issue and even so if there was more heavier rain inland then the city would still get moderate to light patchy falls.
Oh and they have a low risk of heavy rain reaching warning criteria on the weather outlook, must be the weekend shift eh :B
Expect it to be dropped this time tomorrow !
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Nice cooling sea breeze arrived here not long ago. I enjoy the more moist air rather than that dry stuff. Its much nicer to inhale.
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Storm Struck wrote:The MS have me puzzled again but laughing at the same time :lol: , all the maps I am looking at point to steady/brief heavy scattered rain on Wednesday clearing for Waitangi.
Not as much as the models were showing yesterday of 60mm possible but a good 20-30mm atleast, anyway they only forecast drizzle for Christchurch =D> .
Unless they are factoring in any sheltering but it will be southerly so shouldn't be too much of an issue and even so if there was more heavier rain inland then the city would still get moderate to light patchy falls.
Oh and they have a low risk of heavy rain reaching warning criteria on the weather outlook, must be the weekend shift eh :B
Yes, I noticed that too??
Sounds like a "left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing" scenario. :?: :crazy:
I've noticed that 'heavy rain forecasts' for here, usually results into drizzle or not much precipitation as well. :-o
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Cold start here this morning on 4 deg,but going to be a hot one later though
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ECMWF showing a subtropical low moving down around 7th Feb...
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Plenty of model variation for later this week/ early next week, will the high pressure zone across NZ keep the low pressure to the north out ?

Another lovely day, 24C, feels very much like summer is here now.
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spwill wrote:Another lovely day, 24C, feels very much like summer is here now.
Yep another awesome day, sunny 23C for Howick. Just been for my first swim of the summer 8)
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Sitting on 33deg ATM with a light NE ,should be warm again tomorrow
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warmest evening here for a while, still on 22C, sea breeze
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Both ECMWF and GFS still showing a low moving down late-week, UKMO shows high pressure dominating. Metservice looks to be agreeing with UKMO at this stage
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