General April Weather

[spwill]

Can see Cb over South Auckland, rain down there, on the humid side now, dewpoint 16C.

[David]

Feeling muggy as here! Currently 21C, dewpoint 17C.

[spwill]

A warmer feel to our weather today with the lifting dewpoints and light winds, isolated showers, 10-21C, dp16C.
Waikato and South Auckland more in the firing line for any showers today

[melja]

When is the last time we had a sunny day here in the Chch area that went from dawn to dusk im still ony up to 43h sun MTD and a whopping 151mm of rain and this on top of the 120mm we had last month , so up around 270mm in two months- a whole 40% of our avg yearly total Going to be a dry winter I suspect.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

I see Metservice are forecasting rain with heavy falls here in Canterbury on Monday and Tuesday. In their severe weather outlook they have moderate chance.... I am not really seeing this in the models...? Although GFS in their latest runs shows a little potential but Eastern Otago looks more vulnerable at the moment and they only have low risk...

[jamie]

Feeling muggy as here! Currently 21C, dewpoint 17C.

Jeez it wasn't warm here today. Didn't reach 15 until after 1pm and only toped out at 17.8 just before 5pm. Started the day at a chilly 3.9.

Had cool rain which actually lifted the temp. Had 6.5mm today.

[Tornado Tim]

Yea, certainly not warm in the Waikato. Raglan had quite a bit of Rain. Matangi hovered round 13 degrees all day. Max of 15.

[Captain Salty]

A bit of Lightning activity showing on trackers to the west at the moment

[shovelopikis]

moving over the closer to christchurch by the look, a bit of CG activity with it

this wasn't forcast at all to cross the divide

[melja]

Very heavy rain and spillover thunderstorms at lake benmore, was forecast to spill east with metservice t storm outlook .

[Orion]

Was rained on at Ashburton Anzac Service at 9am; just heard a peal of thunder to the W or NW.
As mentioned above - unforecast

[shovelopikis]

Very heavy rain and spillover thunderstorms at lake benmore, was forecast to spill east with metservice t storm outlook .

yes they updated their outlook this morning

mine was written with the previous outlook in mind

[Storm Struck]

A very fast moving frontal band this morning swept over with brief rain, I thought I seen a flash of elevated lightning when I was driving but wasn't too sure.
But a nice warm day has followed anyone would think spring is here with how green everything is, managed 23.5C back to 21.4C now .
Also some weak thunder/hail activity over north Otago/ South Canterbury this afternoon.

[NZstorm]

Quite an active polar system crossing NZ early week. 500mb chart for Monday! Main interest with this system will some squally thunder hail in the west and heavy rain over Otago. There may be a few rumbles over Canterbury Monday pm.

[spwill]

The first cool spell of the year for Auckland next week.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Currently 1.7 at Christchurch Airport! Heavy rain looks more on the cards for Otago than Canterbury early next week. I would expect to see Metservice increase their confidence for Otago today from low to moderate and keep Canterbury at a low risk.

[Manukau heads obs]

Still running 2c above normal For month Here
Same for most of NI south of Auckland
Niwa Scale on the Chart does not go above 2....
Must be heading for some kind of record

[NZstorm]

Cold 9C here this morning.

Isolated thunder could reach the west of the North Island tonight (more likely Northland). The overnight front could be quite squally.

Looks like some squally winter type cb's over the west of the North Island Monday pm/Tuesday am with hail. All possibly south of Auckland though.

[jamie]

Metservice yesterday had a low of 2 then 3 as they changed their forecast. I was thinking it seemed very low considering the amount of cloud around. We only got to a low of 10 last night. That's 7 degrees off target.

Looking forward to more rain. We are now well behind on last years rainfall to date.

[tgsnoopy]

Got down to 7 over here, which from memory was their forecast.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Looking forward to more rain.

We're not. Had enough of it already this year.
If this pattern continued for the next 8 months, it's going to a wet year for the SI east coast.

[Razor]

Currently 1.7 at Christchurch Airport! Heavy rain looks more on the cards for Otago than Canterbury early next week. I would expect to see Metservice increase their confidence for Otago today from low to moderate and keep Canterbury at a low risk.

nope, warnings issued now for Canty from Chch down

[shovelopikis]

Another great day today in Taranaki, just like yesterday, and awaiting tonights storm- severe thunderstorms/heavy rain/ and possiblitlity of a tornado or two (usually hits coastal towns-oakura/okato/new plymouth)

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Not sure why razor. They contradict their own modified 3 day map. According to that tomorrow is mainly dry with some rain Tuesday morning. Whether they end up being right or not, they should be reflecting one another and they totally the opposite. In-fact currently 0.1mm for CHCH tomorrow.

[Richard]

Not sure why razor. They contradict their own modified 3 day map. According to that tomorrow is mainly dry with some rain Tuesday morning.

Its the 'bob each way' forecast again, Monday -'Rain, heavy at times. Northwest turns southerly', but only 0.1mm of rain,Tuesday-.Rain and strong southwesterlies easing afternoon but only about 15mm acclimation,Timaru is even worse with only about 8mm total acclimation.