General January Weather

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sat 23/01/2016 16:45

Grey Lynn got to 29.6C.

GraemeWi · Unread post by **GraemeWi** » Sat 23/01/2016 16:54

30.4°c peak in Swanson. Good to find some shade in a breeze for relief!

Tornado Tim · Unread post by **Tornado Tim** » Sat 23/01/2016 21:38

29.2°C Today the max in Matangi Today. Quite warm for sure.....

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sat 23/01/2016 21:54

Could see cumulus towers and Cb go up over Northland again today after 4pm, kaikohe got 14mm. kaikohe tends to be under the seabreeze convergence on light wind days.

Cooler weather arrives onto the South Island by mid week and moves north but I see the GFS has it struggling to reach Auckland, may stay warm and humid here right through next week.

katipo · Unread post by **katipo** » Sat 23/01/2016 22:04

Quite a warm evening here in Christchurch tonight, sitting on 24.0deg @10pm. We could be set for the warmest night of the year so far.

David · Unread post by **David** » Sun 24/01/2016 10:13

Already 25 degrees out there, dewpoint 19C. Another scorcher ahead...

David · Unread post by **David** » Sun 24/01/2016 14:34

NE sea breeze holding the temperature at 26 here this afternoon, interestingly the Airport is up to 28C

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Sun 24/01/2016 15:05

Spitty rain in Akaroa on and off since last evening, which must mean significant spillover from the Southern Alps and West Coast already.

Brassnz · Unread post by **Brassnz** » Sun 24/01/2016 15:31

No idea what the actual temp is here in Hamilton but I reckon my beer is mostly evaporating before it reaches my mouth. Have just been watching a wee dust devil cross an empty paddock behind the house and dance through the crop field next door. Good viewing!

Tornado Tim · Unread post by **Tornado Tim** » Sun 24/01/2016 16:03

30.3°C in Matangi just a few minutes ago. Quite warm for sure

cbm · Unread post by **cbm** » Sun 24/01/2016 16:15

Brassnz wrote:No idea what the actual temp is here in Hamilton but I reckon my beer is mostly evaporating before it reaches my mouth. Have just been watching a wee dust devil cross an empty paddock behind the house and dance through the crop field next door. Good viewing!

The airport, which is the most conservative of local sites hit 29.9 at 3:30pm. It actually does not break 30 all that often considering 28-29C is not uncommon. Today is indeed a slightly hotter day than the normal hottest handful of days per summer. Normally a Westerly of some sort arrives by now and caps the temp. Over here in Cambridge the Westerly takes ~1h longer to make it in, suspect an official site around here if there were one would break 30 more often.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sun 24/01/2016 16:54

My suburb can be in the zone between the northeast and southwest seabreeze, light winds adding to the hot feel, almost calm here just now

I see over at Greylynn they had a northeast sea breeze from late morning, max there of 29.7C late morning.

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Sun 24/01/2016 17:40

Pleasantly mild with heavy overcast high cloud all day in the east of the SI,on and off again light rain as well.

ben g · Unread post by **ben g** » Sun 24/01/2016 18:58

I sometimes wonder if metservice should issue special public swell warnings for situations like the last few days..
It's the weekend, fine and very hot days, light winds, busiest Beach days recorded this year
Add in an unusually large long period swell from Tc victor, that's been pushing in for days along the usually calm east coast from cape reianga to gisborne...
Even after growing up around the ocean, I'm always very careful on the west coast,on isolated beaches I wont even go more than waist deep on a calm day.
But I could see how 3 people (including a lifeguard) drowned in that area over weekend after being caught out.

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Sun 24/01/2016 20:49

Up to 30.1 today at home. I was lucky enough to have been at kuratau lake Taupo again for the weekend so arrived home at a slightly better 28. Much more muggy heat here than down there. Got to 30 there yesterday but it reminded me of a dry Aussie heat with a very warm SW breeze.

Still sitting on 23.5 at the moment.

Tornado Tim · Unread post by **Tornado Tim** » Sun 24/01/2016 21:57

30.8°C was the Max in Matangi Today, set at 5 PM. Quite High for a Waikato temp.

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Mon 25/01/2016 00:42

Ugh! House wide open and still 26 inside. Outside still 20. Going to be hard sleeping tonight.

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Mon 25/01/2016 00:42

jamie wrote:Ugh! House wide open and still 26 inside. Outside still 20. Going to be hard sleeping tonight.

Still 23 outside here....will happily trade. But leave any humidty up there. 35 yesterdy, bottomoed out at 21 last night. top only 26 today thank god with that trace spotty rain that came to nil mm

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Mon 25/01/2016 08:13

Looking likely that there's going to be more rain for northern areas of Canterbury again, what an unbelievable summer its turning out to be, really has totally gone against what the climatology experts were predicting.

David · Unread post by **David** » Mon 25/01/2016 10:19

Another uncomfortable day in the north... dewpoint around 20C here currently.

RWood · Unread post by **RWood** » Mon 25/01/2016 10:24

3 of the last 4 days here have been very cloudy here - January is turning out to be very much inferior to December.

RWood · Unread post by **RWood** » Mon 25/01/2016 10:33

Richard wrote:Looking likely that there's going to be more rain for northern areas of Canterbury again, what an unbelievable summer its turning out to be, really has totally gone against what the climatology experts were predicting.

If you look at rainfall patterns in past El Nino summer seasons, there's a clear bias to drier than average conditions in the north and east of the NI, and wetter than average in the west and south of the SI. Elsewhere things are more equivocal.

However if just some of the strongest few El Ninos from the past (1972/3, 1982/3, 1997/8) are considered, then the outlook used makes some sense. This one is looking different.

ryant1234 · Unread post by **ryant1234** » Mon 25/01/2016 11:49

It was rather humid for Christchurch this morning. It was over 28 degrees with a 15 degree dewpoint at one point which is unusual if I recall. Currently 31.4 @ Jeffs. Actually feels hot even tho I recently spent 3 months in South East Asia and have lived in Melbourne for 6 years.

Tornado Tim · Unread post by **Tornado Tim** » Mon 25/01/2016 11:59

Blimey, 27.3°C with a 20.9°C DP, very ripe!
Wouldnt be surprised if we get a good shower later on if that DP keeps up!

Orion · Unread post by **Orion** » Mon 25/01/2016 13:14

♫ "Summer rain taps at my window.." - quite a good downpour at present

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