General November Weather

[David]

Nice morning here. Saw some altocumulus at Eastern Beach about 10am:

[matttbs]

It's nice to finally have consecutive days above 20C. Although the wind is starting to get annoying. Have only had 1 non windy warm sunny day here so far this month

[melja]

Getting very dry on the south island east with Timaru on water restrictions and its still November.
Just 19mm for me for the month so far in Rangiora.

[Manukau heads obs]

very typical of El Nino pattern for the east coast of both islands (and the top of the SI) to get dry During November and into summer
with the prevailing SW winds

[Dale]

Fantastic light show happening here at present.. some fairly close CG's & Intra-Cloud stuff.. not really a lot in the way of rainfall but it is certainly making up for it with the noise factor!

[David]

New weather station fan arrived just after 7 this morning, but typically it's now raining...

[Manukau heads obs]

My 10 year or so old Davis VP1 ISS finally died
Getting a new VP2 from Davis NZ...great service from them

[David]

My 10 year or so old Davis VP1 ISS finally died
Getting a new VP2 from Davis NZ...great service from them

Agreed, did you deal with Tas as well? He was very helpful. He sent my new fan to me before I'd even deposited the money into their account! Very fast deliveries as well - they seem to use overnight courier (without adding extra costs onto your invoice)

Much cooler here today, only 16 degrees at the moment, 3mm of mostly light rain this morning.

[Manukau heads obs]

Yes, Tas

[Tornado Tim]

Nice narrow beefy line coming in, looks like a trough....

[Manukau heads obs]

squally heavy rain here now with that

[jamie]

Looking good as it comes this way.

[Richard]

6.00 pm and the Wellington radar looks amazing with a low forming as it moves onto the bottom of the NI

[spwill]

A little bit of a pattern change coming up from next week with the westerlies retreating a bit further south, should be less of the west/ southwest flows. More northerlies would be good, too much cold air finds its way to NZ.

[Lacertae]

That's a lot of white on the radar off Banks Peninsula !

[Richard]

Still blowing its guts out from the NW,clouds building to the south which may see a change soon.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

That's a lot of white on the radar off Banks Peninsula !

Yeah! I noticed that too, Ben but it didn't look like much from here.

[RichyDunedin]

Seriously chilly day here. Haven't even cracked 10 degrees. Had a couple big rumbles of thunder before and some hail the last 15 mins. Nothing at all on the radar though?

[dogmelon]

Would the radars "see" the area in and around Dunedin well, if at all? Its a bit rough that old dune misses out but money money money I spose.
The SW has picked up and its overcast now after a nice morning.

[Richard]

The SW wind hasnt made it here yet,still sunny with a strong NW atm

[RichyDunedin]

Third big hail shower this arvo with very loud intracloud thunder overhead again. Very heavy hail but really quick moving showers. I only really see the radar working over Dunedin if there is a big thunderstorm or widespread rain. Looks like this weather will keep up til tomorrow.

[Dale]

Lovely day to end the month over here.. some rain earlier this morning but the sun is out blazing away now & the sound of the speedway drowning out everything else.
Been a very spring type month over here alright, mostly cloudy with the odd fine day thrown in, more than enough rain, hail, minor flooding but many thunderdays.. almost as many this month as there has been in the entire year so far. Roll on December..

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

That's a lot of white on the radar off Banks Peninsula !

Just had a report in, that several waterspouts were observed off the head of Akaroa Harbour, possibly from this cloud around that time.

[Richard]

Did look to have had a hook at one stage looking at the radar.

Finally the NW wind had stopped,now a light E,hoping the rain to the south moves north ,still sunny at the moment though.

[Nev]

A very stormy and cool November. Very dry in eastern areas, while very wet in western areas. Above average sunshine for most areas, but well below in others.

Nov 2014 Climate Anomaly Map ℅ NIWA.gif

Some very preliminary November 2014 temp and rainfall figures for the main centres:

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Nov 2014 Average Temps, Rainfall and departures from their 1981-2010 normals ℅ NIWA

Site                      T-max °C       T-min °C       T-mean °C    Rainfall mm

Auckland, Mangere        19.5  +0.1     12.5  -0.3     16.0  -0.1      47   72% 
Auckland Aero            19.0  -0.5     12.1  -0.7     15.5  -0.7      59   82% 
Tauranga Aero            20.5  +0.4     11.0  -0.7     15.8  -0.1      35   47%
Hamilton Aero            18.5  -1.4      8.6  -0.9     13.5  -1.2      82   92% 
Hamilton, Ruakura        19.2  -0.7      9.3  -0.6     14.2  -0.7      85  102% 
Wellington, Kelburn      16.8  +0.3     10.3   0.0     13.6  +0.2      51   52% 
Christchurch Aero        20.0  +1.1      7.0  -1.0     13.5   0.0      48  103% 
Dunedin, Musselburgh     15.6  -0.5      7.3  -1.3     11.5  -0.9      74  131%

Note that Greymouth Aero recorded 294mm for Nov (149% of normal), although sunshine was slightly above normal, if not considerably cooler. In contrast, places like Nelson Aero only recorded 12mm and both Napier Aero and Gisborne Aero only managed 17mm.