RWood wrote:
For a bit of contrast, June 1969 was SW dominated but dry and very sunny in eastern areas, very cloudy in Auckland - 74 hrs in the city and 69 at Whenuapai.
To avoid focusing wholly on the negative end of the spectrum, Mechanics Bay had 316 hours in the lovely January 1957.
June 1969 had a low level snow dump in the Dunedin area, the last big low level snow dump there, I think about a 30cm fall.
April 2014 will be remembered as an Indian Summer for Auckland, Greylynn showing an average temp of 18.7C to date
RWood wrote:
For a bit of contrast, June 1969 was SW dominated but dry and very sunny in eastern areas, very cloudy in Auckland - 74 hrs in the city and 69 at Whenuapai.
To avoid focusing wholly on the negative end of the spectrum, Mechanics Bay had 316 hours in the lovely January 1957.
June 1969 had a low level snow dump in the Dunedin area, the last big low level snow dump there, I think about a 30cm fall.
April 2014 will be remembered as an Indian Summer for Auckland, Greylynn showing an average temp of 18.7C to date
Yes, June 1969's generally settled frosty conditions gave it a relatively low Tmean overall, a bit more than 1.0C below average nationally. I remember it as one our good Junes locally, with good sunshine, fairly low rainfall and less wind than usual.
It will be interesting to see how this April compares with 1956 in the temperature series - 1978 (a wet cloudy April!) almost matched it but no other April has come close.
(Yes, I know RWood is going to dust off a vast stack of files conclusively proving me wrong, but I don't care... It feels like the Worst. April. Eva.)
The last 15 days here (incl. today, on an assumption of showers and little sun) have been amongst the dullest ever, even with shorter winter days at a disadvantage - and damned wet too. End of month stats will be interesting. In your area April 1978 was mild and very dull, but fairly dry.
Cold front inbound for the North Island this morning. Should cross Auckland before midday. As the front moves eastward, daytime warming will increase instability enough for a few thunderstorms. Looks like Coromandal into eastern Waikato/BOP have the best chance of thunder. And maybe even an isolated heavy fall in eastern BOP but overall not a severe weather risk.
Then the polar trough crosses late afternoon with a few rumbles/small hail in the west from about Port Waikato south to Taranaki by the looks.
500mb prognosis for midday
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most of the action may be south of that. Looking more like weak winter convection out there today, unlike the supercellular looking cells over east cape yesterday a.m !
I noticed a weak CB form in "Thunderstorm corner" late this afternoon.
It even had some 'uplift' clouds that looked like rabbit's ears, appropriate for Easter Sunday
A warm front inbound for the west of the North Island tomorrow with some rain, rain may stay south of Auckland though.
The TT are 51 which indicates some instability.
An exceptionally noticeable smell of damp/willows/mud in the air as I crossed the Ashburton River bridge on SH1 late this afternoon. An overcast day, rather dreary 12.1 deg. and 89% humidity at 2pm.
From looking at clouds here
Its looks to be due to differing windspeeds at height and direction
I.e area of convergence
Although the temperature has been steadily increasing. ...too..
