General December Weather

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

A hot week to start off December.

[mikestormchaser]

A hot week to start off December.

Yes wensday and thurs almost look warmer then last week, we'll see.. just like the thunderstorms nothing "thunderious" has accoured "yet" cooler Southwesterlys end of week into next week, keep eye on tuesday next week to, will be thunderstorms if that cold upper trough makes its way up as its suggesting " at this stage" Very cold air aloft tuesday!!

[Richard]

Soil moisture at 10 cm here is currently at 17.8%, in Feb Cheviot it got as low as 18% but at 23% at present, so, very dry and set to get a lot dryer yet.

[Razor]

I really can't see this horrible NE letting go today, the forecast maximum of 25 degrees looks to be woefully optimistic

[Richard]

Been such a humid day here with a northerly that turned more NW during the afternoon, not sure what the temp was as the weather station has a few teething problems, but nearby Waiau showed 28deg

[mikestormchaser]

Beautiful mild start in Christchurch today. Should get into 30 today. I'm not sure why the weather has been so boring this spring. No thunderstorms at all.. it's been a very high dominated spring with a lot of these upper troughs moving offshore. The models are a tease with having things look promising but then changing for the worse and pushing it out east. Frustrating to say the least! !

[Richard]

Frustrating alright, another thing frustrating is seeing a heavy shower in and around Hamner at the moment looks like it will just miss coming this way

[Razor]

She's going to be at least mid 30's for some places today I reckon

[matttbs]

Already pushing 32 here

[Razor]

Already pushing 32 here

Might be worth exploring what some December records are, although I don't expect the ChCh Airport record is under threat at all (35.4)

[matttbs]

34.6 now, not a breath of wind. That sun is beating down like there's no tomorrow! Unbearably hot!

[Bradley]

Airport has had a maximum of 32.9C so far, never been this hot before this early in December!

[Razor]

Airport has had a maximum of 32.9C so far, never been this hot before this early in December!

Hmmm yes 33 here too, maybe might have to eat my words on that ChCh record December temp...certainly not much in the way of cloud cover to hold us back, just depends on wind direction from here on in

[matttbs]

The wind has hit us here now, moderate NW but isn't really dropping temp, around 33 degrees still

[melja]

33 Rangiora, poor farmers.

[Growler]

max of 36.6° today in Rolleston on http://weather.wildnet.co.nz which is run by someone here I think

[Razor]

34.6 now at Jeffs, which is one of our more reputable go to's round here, how high can it go??? http://weather.northcott.co.nz/

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Bloody awful weather. Reached 32.6C with NW back again ,which I thort It wouldn't probably do today. Yuck
Might have to sell up and move

[Richard]

Thankfully we had thick high cloud all day which kept the temps down, even 2mm of rain this morning that was so refreshing.

[trickytiger]

Made it to 32.4deg down here with hardly any wind all day

[NZstorm]

Airport has had a maximum of 32.9C so far, never been this hot before this early in December!

That's a scorcher! The 850mb is 14 to 15C which is in the typical range for a Canterbury NW in December. The hot day in October has 850mb temps up to 19C.

[Nev]

Chch Aero's 32.9C yesterday is its 3rd highest Dec daily max-temp since records began in 1953, although 2010 and 2007 came close with 32.8C.

[03Stormchaser]

A welcomed shower this morning, unforecasted (if that's even a word) as far as I can tell.

[Richard]

Tasman sea temps are now really creeping up where all the colder than normal anomalies have disappeared, only to the east do they remain, if winds continual blowing from the westerly quarter these colder waters shouldn't effect our temps too much,but one would expect these winds to keep warming as they have over the last few days thanks to a warming Tasman.

[TonyT]

The warmer than normal SSTs should invigorate the troughs as they move across the western Tasman, so we might see some big rainfalls on the west coast in the next month or two.