General June Weather

David · Unread post by **David** » Tue 16/06/2015 10:14

Razor wrote:
David wrote:Finally a nice sunny morning here A chilly start though with a low of 4.5C
You call that chilly? Lol

It's all relative! The previous 6 nights were all 10C+, that's why it felt chilly

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Tue 16/06/2015 14:49

Will be interesting to follow Thursdays weather over Otago with the developing low moving in and cold air in the mix.

Dry air over NZ today, Auckland dewpoint down to 1C.

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Tue 16/06/2015 17:49

Had a stunning sun set tonight with the clear crisp sky. The silhouette of the hills and mountains was and still is incredible.

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Tue 16/06/2015 20:55

Ice here already. Although I think there would be more of the air wasn't so dry. There is only a light dew tonight. Should be a good frost but don't think it will be all that white with the dry air.

Manukau heads obs · Tue 16/06/2015 21:58

Auckland dewpoint down to 1C.

just realised how low it was after you posted that

harleyb · Unread post by **harleyb** » Wed 17/06/2015 07:28

harleyb wrote:The clear sky north of here (Manawatu) at sunrise this morning has a strange look about it. There's a very thin layer with a bluish wispy texture and it's very high up. Texture fading as the sun rises further but it was very noticeable when the sun angle was near horizontal. Definitely not cirrus. Last time I saw anything like this was when that Chilean volcano (Chaltén?) went off a few years ago and we saw the ash from it off and on for a few weeks afterwards. Could this be volcanic ash as well? There was another eruption in Chile recently.

Unmistakable ash in the sky this morning just before sunrise. It's very thin but there's a definite a "brush stroke" pattern in the pre-dawn sky which is otherwise cloudless.

I wonder how much this could shave off our winter temps, on top of the effects of El Niño? I can still remember the winter we had after Mt Pinatubo went off, it was a shocker.

Manukau heads obs · Wed 17/06/2015 07:47

Mt Pinatubo , being in the tropics, put the ash very high in the atmosphere, which was a key to the blocking effect
so it might depend on how high into the atmosphere the ash is from the chilean volcano?

harleyb · Unread post by **harleyb** » Wed 17/06/2015 08:09

Good point. What I can see now looks like it is also very high up. Can anyone else see it? I can still see it now if I hold my hand out to block the sun and look a few degrees to the side... it's not as striking as it was about 30 mins before sunrise but there's definitely something there. Either that or I need to rub the sleep out of my eyes.

Orion · Unread post by **Orion** » Wed 17/06/2015 15:54

I've been thinking for the past few days that the sunlight isn't as clear as it might be, even on the blue-sky days

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Wed 17/06/2015 17:55

There's also the Mount Sinabung eruption happening on the island of Sumatra,so i'm wondering if thats also having an effect

einzack · Unread post by **einzack** » Wed 17/06/2015 17:58

First all-day-fog day of the year for Reefton today. Reached the miserable high of 4.6°C.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Wed 17/06/2015 20:45

North to NW arriving here with temperature up to 11C, when it was 5.6C just before

David · Unread post by **David** » Wed 17/06/2015 22:23

Very calm conditions here today - peak wind gust on my station today was only 10 km/h

Skywatcher · Unread post by **Skywatcher** » Thu 18/06/2015 06:52

A mild night with the temp up to 14C now.

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Thu 18/06/2015 09:16

Skywatcher wrote:A mild night with the temp up to 14C now.

yes, a 17 degree variance from yesterday morning!

David · Unread post by **David** » Fri 19/06/2015 12:14

Nice mild 18 degrees here today, very pleasant.

David · Unread post by **David** » Sat 20/06/2015 16:37

We had way less rain than was predicted with today's front. Only 5mm, was expecting more like 30-40mm

GreggWard · Unread post by **GreggWard** » Sat 20/06/2015 16:45

We've had 81.2mm since midnight, here in Palmy. Lots of flooding and road closures around Manawatu and Whanganui. Still moderate rain falling. Hoping it will stop shortly as there are many streams and rivers running at really high levels.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sat 20/06/2015 18:19

Lotsa rain with this system moving north over the NI according to the news.
A weak convergence moved over here at 5pm with some drizzle from dark clouds moving SW from the NE.

BeaconHill · Unread post by **BeaconHill** » Sat 20/06/2015 18:47

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Not looking good for Whanganui. River still on the way up even though the tide is well on the way out.

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Sat 20/06/2015 19:05

I am in Martinborough. Most of the rain has been up in the Tararuas, over 500mm ! Now hiding down in the plains, Ruamahanga Diver is crazy flooded

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sat 20/06/2015 19:10

Razor wrote:I am in Martinborough. Most of the rain has been up in the Tararuas, over 500mm ! Now hiding down in the plains, Ruamahanga Diver is crazy flooded

Amazing, as the last time I was in Martinborough, the Ruamahanga was quite dry, but that was Feb last year.

Nev · Unread post by **Nev** » Sat 20/06/2015 19:55

Renee mentioned tonight that today's 22C at Napier was a June record, which is complete rubbish.

Napier Aero's record is 24.3C set in 1981, and NIWA's Napier Nelson Park's record is 23.3C set in 1988.

Update: Actually 21.5C at Napier Aero, or its 7th equal highest June temp since records began in 1974.

GreggWard · Unread post by **GreggWard** » Sat 20/06/2015 20:31

107mm to 8pm and still raining. Although, looking at the radar and satellite images, the rain looks like it should decrease in the next couple of hours.

BeaconHill · Unread post by **BeaconHill** » Sat 20/06/2015 21:49

Would be very interesting to see what river levels are doing tonight. But the horizons.govt.nz website with river levels seems to not be able to cope at an opportune time tonight. Scalability of websites seems to be lacking for many govt sites at times.

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