General October Weather

[tich]

(generally light) Rain in Akaroa from about 6pm.

[Nev]

TVNZ's worst kept secret, apparently…

'The Diary: Weather man Jim Hickey retires' - NZ Herald

[spwill]

A little bit unusual to see Napier currently on 9C, Whakatane on 21.5C. Masterton is on 7.7C.

[Dale]

Cool start but a cracker of a day here.. high teens & next to no wind. Just lovely

[Michael]

Plenty of wind here.

[melja]

Will be in Reefton for the weekend so its bound to turn to crap over there Dale.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Plenty of wind here.

Same here and it's from the SW.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

TVNZ's worst kept secret, apparently…

'The Diary: Weather man Jim Hickey retires' - NZ Herald

Yes, well Dan Corbett, which hopefully will be Jim's replacement, with his BBC type of weather presentation, will be an excellent replacement.
He showed Jims' initial broadcast, tonight, way back in 1986, I think?
He had a beautiful jacket on

[Dale]

I reckon the bloke who does the Hilux ad's should be the new presenter.. what a hoot that would be!
And yes Melja, Sunday doesn't look to crash hot here, the motorbike street race is on in town so it's guaranteed to rain.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

I reckon the bloke who does the Hilux ad's should be the new presenter.. what a hoot that would be!

Yes, he would be interesting
He's learning well???

[NZstorm]

That front over the North Island on Monday has reasonable moisture so it should give a good soaking to many places.

[Nev]

Down to 4.6C here this morn - very cold for Oct.
I see Ricky was down to 3.8C earlier - his second coldest Oct temp in 11 years of records.

[David]

A low of 3.1 here this morning. Almost exactly 2 years ago (24 Oct 2012) it got down to 3.4 degrees, interesting coincidence:)

[David]

Quite a dry air mass over us today - humidity down to 35% at times in Howick.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

A sunny but cold day here with that cold ENE wind blowing, spoiling the West Melton event celebrating 150 years. .

[Richard]

Was a cool NE here this morning which died out early afternoon and got to 24deg before the NW wind change which cooled it down to 19deg ATM

[Tornado Tim]

That westerly change brought with it a nice surge of moisture with it.
Felt fairly cool when the change came in.

[Bradley]

As a side note looks like the All Blacks may be playing in some very chilly temperatures in Chicago next Saturday, 850hpa temps of around -10C are forecast which would translate into a maximum of around 1-2C!!

[tgsnoopy]

Not as noticeable over here:

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[melja]

Bugger all rain here in reefton today and this after the forecast of all this heavy rain and thunderstorms, a couple of mills at most.
Terrible forecasting once again for the west coast.

[spwill]

A little bit of humidity starting to show in the modelling, 17C dewpoints for the top of the country Tuesday.
Week ahead looks changeable,typical Spring.

[NZstorm]

A little bit of humidity starting to show in the modelling, 17C dewpoints for the top of the country Tuesday.
Week ahead looks changeable,typical Spring.

Looks to be a window for possible elevated thunder this afternoon/early evening over the west of the North Island as moist subtropical air advects into the front. The front loses its strength tonight, so Auckland may not get much rain.

[Richard]

Three mils from last nights drizzle,now cleared.

[Manukau heads obs]

usefull rain here at the moment
ps, that was a perfect solar curve on saturday with no clouds in the sky all day

[David]

Nice to hear some rain tonight! Certainly has been drier this month, I've recorded only 48 mm for October so far.