General June Weather

[Dean.]

Porters?
Geez.. must be some real cold stuff up there and no I havent done a model run yet so my fault. Blowing it's nuts off this morning literally, but still a lovely 17 degrees... just down the road from umm.. Porters.

Was a before and after shot......
Snow disappearing fast in the warm northerlies and rain

[Orion]

I agree 100% harleyb. I was shocked to see the headlines storm sinks it's teeth or something similar. I was confused as I didn't realise there even was a storm. I agree with you that this is just another winter wet weather system.

"A great blanket of weather is enveloping the country..." evidently.

[Dale]

Some nice lightning action going on here at present..

[Weetbicks]

There are some serious anticrepuscular rays over the port hills in chch right now. I'd love to take a photo but am at work and don't have a camera with me, hopefully someone can snap them!

[Richard]

Some serous wind this morning and some high winter temps this afternnoon,reached 19.5deg.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Looked thunderstormic to the west this afternoon with a spread out shower moving out and across Christchurch from about 2pm. driving home , I expected a flash but didn't see anything.
Summer time might of been interesting??

[NZstorm]

That upper trough in the Tasman Sea should produce quite a bit of lightning out there tomorrow. GFS has the higher topped cb's reaching Taranaki but just a shower or two for Auckland but will keep an eye on it tomorrow. 500mb will be -22C for Auckland.

[David]

11mm for Howick this afternoon/evening. Sure has been warmer at night recently, have had to replace the winter duvet with something lighter.

[spwill]

Winterless here so far.
Some cold upper level troughing showing up in the modelling over the next week. Perhaps a thunder day or two coming up for Auckland.

[Storm Struck]

I was only expecting a brief spillover from the west this afternoon which it did, but then returned again from 5:30pm onwards with some heavy falls on and off until about 8pm.
The winds must have been lighter in the mid and upper levels to allow the bulky rain activity through the alps and high country to spill or develop over the plains, a further 5.8mm to add to a very wet June.
As the surface models only hinted at a brief splash for mid afternoon.

[matttbs]

Can someone please tell me what times the gfs runs are?

[Storm Struck]

Can someone please tell me what times the gfs runs are?

If you are referring to the ARL its around 4:40pm and 10:40pm, so that gives you an idea there.

[David]

Can someone please tell me what times the gfs runs are?

Four times a day, at 12am, 6am, 12pm, 6pm UTC.

[Tornado Tim]

Can someone please tell me what times the gfs runs are?

Four times a day, at 12am, 6am, 12pm, 6pm UTC.

FWI the model analysis can take a few hours ontop of the runtime, so models wont be released exactly on the run time.

Brilliantly Overcast today, rainy in the latter half of the day.
Auckland could get a few rumbles of Thunder on Friday, less likely tomorrow despite an upper level jet persisting through the upper half of the North Island.
Whakatane and the mid west coast of the North Island look to be in the better places of seeing some Lightning tomorrow.

[matttbs]

Cool, cheers fellas.

Recorded another 10.6mm today and a 74kmph gust last night. Currently 7C

[David]

We ended up with 31mm here from midday yesterday to 4am this morning. Wetter than I had expected!

[Nev]

44mm here since about midday yesterday.

Fairly calm now, which is quite a contrast from how blustery it was just a few hours ago. I see Akld also had some fairly impressive gusts yesterday, with 91 km/h at Ardmore Aerodrome and 83 km/h at Whangaparaoa. And further north, I think gusts at Tutukaka were up around 122 km/h last night.

[Richard]

Light NW now but very gusty over night ,5mm of rain since yesterday and currently 13deg

[NZstorm]

28mm here.

That surface wind later in the day at New Plymouth goes into the N which throws up a risk of an isolated tornado given upper flow is NW.

[jamie]

Wow you Auckland guys had 3 times as much rain as I did.

[Manukau heads obs]

only 10mm here...front must have activated more further north over the city area

[David]

Partly cloudy 18.4C here with 16.5C dewpoint. Went for a walk at 2pm and it felt really muggy!

[NZstorm]

Can see cb to west.

[spwill]

Warm today given the light winds and humidity.

Yes, can see distant Cbs in the west heading for Waitomo and Waikato

[shovelopikis]

large Cbs over us with sunny patches in between around taupo currently, but very dark in lower clouds