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Re: General March Weather

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Finished up with 17mm of rain. Temp dropped from 19 to 10 deg in 10 mins. Hail was interesting, a similar size to what we got in the tornado storm, and we got more of it, but the stones were round and smooth, not sharp and jagged as they were with the supercell. The thunder was remarkable for being virtually continuous for about 20 mins, rumbling all around.
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Send it all this way please tony.
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jamie wrote:Send it all this way please tony.
No sorry,wouldn't be allowed to bypass here first
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A welcome 4mm here overnight. Today's wind will probably dry it all up though!
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Might be last rain for a little while, roll on May. I see Greylynn got 2mm in the early hrs.
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Quite a few decent showers came through last night in Raglan, more heavier than the Waikato Radar suggested.
Nice morning here with Sun and altocumulus.
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i got a mere 0.6mm
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A fresh southwest wind today to dry up recent rainfall, cloudy morning/fine afternoon. Temp 15C -22C.
It has been a great March if you didn't need rain.
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spwill wrote:A fresh southwest wind today to dry up recent rainfall, cloudy morning/fine afternoon. Temp 15C -22C.
It has been a great March if you didn't need rain.
Been pretty decent temperature-wise too. In Howick we still haven't had a daily max below 20C or a night-time low below 11C.
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Big temp range here today, from 1deg to 24deg
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In my mid march has been awful. We had really cold temps at the start of the month. We had a whole heap of wind with Lusi and have had no nice days with low wind. Like today or example it was clear but this darn wind blasted away all day.

Bring on winter I say. I'm sick of droughts!
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Lots of rain eastern oz
You would think that would form
An east aust low that would come this way...m
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I see Twizel/Pukaki has had big temp ranges in the last week with 0-26, minus 3-23 and 2-27 yesterday.

Good to see metservice has put a Canterbury high country under its rural forecasts showing Pukaki(which is Twizel), Omarama and Culverden. Be good to watch those temps this winter _b
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GFS 7 day accumulated rainfall. A wet Tasman, a dry North Island!
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Death Ridge for atleast another 3 weeks I think :> , hopefully the rains arrive after Easter , not at Easter.
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spwill wrote:Death Ridge for atleast another 3 weeks I think :> , hopefully the rains arrive after Easter , not at Easter.
I hope your wrong!
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Hope you are wrong too,even though i'm enjoying the stunning weather over the last few days,today no exception,light E and 25deg
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Seems to be the pattern NZstorm. Sea temps are usually 2 deg warmer in the NW Tasman. At least the highs are keeping well south. Is there time for another low from the north perhaps ???????
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Bloody boring here for the next 10 days, no lows, no wind, no rain, no cold fronts, no heat, no thunderstorms, just, well nothing forecast! God I hate the weather when its 10-20C everyday and partly cloudy!!
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Bradley wrote:Bloody boring here for the next 10 days, no lows, no wind, no rain, no cold fronts, no heat, no thunderstorms, just, well nothing forecast! God I hate the weather when its 10-20C everyday and partly cloudy!!
Keep you fingers (and arse) crossed for an unlikely ULT to pass over the area like what happened on Monday :-$ :-k :D
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ULT, never heard that term before?
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Bradley wrote:ULT, never heard that term before?
Upper Level Trough :smile:
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I've know what a upper level trough is but hadn't seen it abbreviated before funnily enough!! Yeah that would be nice but what chance do you give that actually happening?
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I thought 'ULT' was the more commonly used meteorological acronym for 'Ultra- Low Temperature'. :-s
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spwill wrote:Death Ridge for atleast another 3 weeks I think :> , hopefully the rains arrive after Easter , not at Easter.
It's a long way out, but both GFS and ECMWF are showing some unsettled weather around 7-8 April. Fingers crossed!
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