General March Weather

[NZstorm]

10mm here overnight.

[Manukau heads obs]

rained all night here...24mm...just what the doctor ordered
looks like that frontal band is going to move through this morning...but there is another one off the coast yet...I wonder if that one will affect the cricket.....hopefully will have all moved through by this afternoon...low and front have been moving more steadily east overnight than models indicated

[David]

Nice to get some heavy showers overnight. We have 12mm in the last hour!

[NZstorm]

A decent area of 500mb vorticity crossed overnight. Something like that will always generate showers. GFS was underdoing the precip.

last nights chart.

[David]

We ended up with 25mm in the end, nice! 20mm of that fell between 6am and 9am. Looks to be clearing up now. Graph shows rainfall accumulation last 12 hours.

[David]

Quite decent rain this evening, my station has recorded 8.6mm in the last hour.

[Manukau heads obs]

yes, very nice rain, 13mm here
the clouds were initially all upper level but the cloud base lowered and lowered...now the hills around here are in the clouds
there was a jump in the dew point here at 2pm

[NZstorm]

16mm here yesterday.
The next system coming in looks to be aimed more at the South Island than here. Some instability there as well!

[David]

16mm here yesterday

I recorded 25mm - it was quite heavy again 9-10pm. Really wasn't expecting as much as that. I don't recall GFS showing much precip for us yesterday?

[Manukau heads obs]

Looking like El Nino indicators are gaining traction again (sea temperatures in eastern pacific and SOI)

[David]

Just taken the rubbish out... it sure is foggy out there this morning!

[Skywatcher]

Was very foggy here a couple of hours ago with visibility down to 50m at times. Has lifted and I can now see trees a few hundred metres away. The very low cloud/fog causing problems for flights landing (taking off OK) with three in racetrack holds out over Pegasus Bay.

EDIT: Spoke too soon - light southerly developed and visibility has dropped to less than 100m here.

[NZstorm]

Late showers again here today though just 2mm here.

The sholwater index values over Otago/Southland tomorrow are in the negative which is a good indicator for elevated thunder spreading from the west. The sholwater is just the lifted index when the parcel is lifted from 850mb.

The west of the North Island may catch some rumbles early Sunday but it ones of those iffy set ups due to warm temps aloft.

[spwill]

A humid feel today, dewpoint 18C, max 24C, we like warm.

[jamie]

It's really humid this afternoon. I'm really feeling it

[David]

Muggy again today, dewpoint around 19C.
I've recorded 95mm here in the last 2 weeks

[NZstorm]

Yes, another muggy autumnal day. Shame about the lack of sunshine today.

Should be some heavy showers tomorrow morning/isol thunder with that front in the west reaching Auckland as well.
An isolated early morning tornado can not be ruled out for north Taranaki given the subtropical moisture/low level directional shear.

[spwill]

Some quite heavy convergence showers over central Auckland last hr

Humid today with little or no breeze here, min 18C, max 23C, dewpoint around 18C.

[Richard]

Been in CHCH shopping where there was low cloud to arrive back home to a light NW wind and 26deg,a shower of rain just past to the west.

[melja]

No forecasted heavy rain on the coast with just 3mm today.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Fine day here. Still waiting for the 'heavy showers'

[NZstorm]

More showers today, 10mm in Grey Lynn.

[David]

More showers today, 10mm in Grey Lynn.

We had 2mm before 9am, but then dry conditions for the rest of the day. Showers seemed to be focused on central suburbs today.

[Razor]

Reports of massive thunderstorms in central Otago right now. 21mm in Alexandra in past half hour. Radar looks amazing

[melja]

Lots of thunder and lighting here on the coast now too but still not much rain.