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Me spring napier,summer gisborne/napier autumn Auckland,winter hawaii
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03Stormchaser wrote:
Over the last few years I've given thought to where would I live for each season in NZ only based on climate.

Spring - Christchurch
Summer - Motueka
Autumn - Napier
Winter - West Coast
This could be the basis for a new topic? 8)
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Spring - Napier
Summer - Motueka/Nelson/Blenheim
Autumn - Mackenzie/Cromwell/Alexandra
Winter - Darwin/N Queensland/Broome region :mrgreen:

Choices made to give some variety, not necessarily absolute preferences
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The sunniest summer location in NZ (Dec-Mar) is......

Motueka 957hours

New Plymouth 896hrs is sunniest in the North Island.

Auckland 847hrs.
Christchurch 768hrs.
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NZstorm wrote:The sunniest summer location in NZ (Dec-Mar) is......

Motueka 957hours

New Plymouth 896hrs is sunniest in the North Island.

Auckland 847hrs.
Christchurch 768hrs.
You're obviously looking at much older normals, as the Chc'h figure is much higher than that. Motueka (at Riwaka, actually) had site obstruction issues from the 80s and has not been recording sunshine for some time now. A decent replacement site would probably record values close to those of Nelson.

Here are some 1981-2010 normals:

Nelson Aero 970 Appleby 966 Blenheim 960 Cromwell 935 Tekapo 923 Takaka 898 New Plymouth 897 Napier 888 Wellington 886

A bit further down, Christchurch 844, Mangere 818 (Nth Shore will be higher though)
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A good example today,unsure what its like in chch today but its the days like this,the SW dragging on ,its overcast as,quite a solid cold breeze and even a shower.
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Michael wrote:A good example today,unsure what its like in chch today but its the days like this,the SW dragging on ,its overcast as,quite a solid cold breeze and even a shower.
Cloud and sunny spells here http://www.takeabreak.co.nz/accommodati ... d-city.asp
Temp has been up to 15C, it is July.
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Spring - Canterbury
Summer - Tauranga
Autumn - Nelson
Winter - Cairns
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Deano wrote:Spring - Canterbury
Summer - Tauranga
Autumn - Nelson
Winter - Cairns
How did you find the humidity in Cairns in Winter Deano ? I notice today at 2.35pm Cairns is 24.7C with a dewpoint of 18C, a similar temperature/dewpoint combination to a humid day in Auckland in January.

Kiwis flock to the tropical Islands this time of year which are more humid than Auckland Summer
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Christchurch 844hrs
The figures I am using are older but for Christchurch both the Botanic Garden and Airport were 768hrs and out at Lincoln 799hrs.

Where in Christchurch is the updated normal taken?
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Went there in 1993 in july it was 26c each of the 4 days but it rained like clockwork on all days for an hour or two,clearedup at night then sunny again till 4 oclock in Cairns
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Michael wrote:Went there in 1993 in july it was 26c each of the 4 days but it rained like clockwork on all days for an hour or two,clearedup at night then sunny again till 4 oclock in Cairns
I was in the Cairns-Port Douglas area 2 years ago in July. No rain at all in that week. July-Sept have low rainfall averages at Cairns. PD didn't feel very humid, given an onshore breeze. Very pleasant and a great winter escape. We're repeating it in the first week of September.

Means Cairns rainfalls: 29, 27 and 34 mm for Jul, Aug, Sept respectively. All 3 months , plus October, have instances of nil rainfall.
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NZstorm wrote:
Christchurch 844hrs
The figures I am using are older but for Christchurch both the Botanic Garden and Airport were 768hrs and out at Lincoln 799hrs.

Where in Christchurch is the updated normal taken?
No change of site. To get numbers that low for Ch'ch Airport (it would be 50s and earlier numbers in the case of the Gardens, which stopped recording in 1953) you have to be using 1951-1980 normals or earlier. Two factors for the Airport - an improvement in exposure about 1975/76 (as mentioned by TonyT a few years back) plus I think an additional amount of genuine increase over older values (looking a bit shaky in the last couple of years or so though).
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spwill wrote:
Deano wrote:Spring - Canterbury
Summer - Tauranga
Autumn - Nelson
Winter - Cairns
How did you find the humidity in Cairns in Winter Deano ? I notice today at 2.35pm Cairns is 24.7C with a dewpoint of 18C, a similar temperature/dewpoint combination to a humid day in Auckland in January.

Kiwis flock to the tropical Islands this time of year which are more humid than Auckland Summer
Went back last year for two months,stepped off the plane in early June and temps were 28 degrees with a dewpoint of 20 so was very humid for us.Gradually the temps dropped away with the SE trades blowing most of the time and the odd inland trough pushing through dropping the humidity right away,though we were in shorts and tees the whole time.
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Looking at temperature /dewpoint forecast for Cairns this week it is going to be more humid than a typical Jan/Feb week in Auckland
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http://www.weatherzone.com.au/qld/nth-c ... and/cairns

Yes about average for this time of the year
The locals will be be finding it cool/cold until the build up starts in October
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The SE onshore was present for most of our stay. Port Douglas is I think better "air conditioned" than Cairns. The other factor to be pointed out is that the sun angle was much lower than in Auckland's midsummer. This time at 1 September the zenith angle will be about 64-65 deg, compared with 76 deg for Auckland. This still makes a difference.
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RWood wrote:The SE onshore was present for most of our stay. Port Douglas is I think better "air conditioned" than Cairns. The other factor to be pointed out is that the sun angle was much lower than in Auckland's midsummer. This time at 1 September the zenith angle will be about 64-65 deg, compared with 76 deg for Auckland. This still makes a difference.
Spent many weekends in Port,beautiful place and well exposed to the sea breeze.
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