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Re: General June Weather

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wind has gone SE here, so that rain might end up into the south auckland area?
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update...I see that is already happening...developing quickly too..I must look out the other window, LOL
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Re: General June Weather

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Just 33 mm's of rain for June here, a quarter of our usual June rainfall, that comes on the heels of a may where we had 2.5x our normal rain
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jamie wrote:The flooding at Bombay was the worst I have ever seen there.

Check out the southerly in the Waikato. This wasn't forecasted. I was expecting a few showers this morn then clearing. We now have a slow moving band of heavy rain on the southerly front. Looks like I'll get more steady to heavy rain for a couple hours.
I haven't looked back further than these forecasts issued late morning on Wednesday, but both of them have the clearance in the evening. Do you know where and when you got the forecast of clearing in the morning?

Waikato: "Scattered showers, some heavy, clearing in the evening. Southerlies developing in the morning."

Which would have been found here: http://www.metservice.com/rural/waikato

Hamilton/Tokoroa: "Some showers, few heavy, clears evening. Gusty southerly."

Which would have been found here: http://www.metservice.com/towns-cities/hamilton or http://www.metservice.com/towns-cities/tokoroa
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I recall it this morning on the app saying

Showers possibly heavy clearing PM.

To me I interpreted that as clearing afternoon. Not evening. And showers would be mostly in the morning. Especially when checking the radar this morning and we were slightly south of a decent shower.

What we had today was fog with light winds changing to southerly with rain late afternoon. Rain clearing during night.
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jamie wrote:I recall it this morning on the app saying

Showers possibly heavy clearing PM.

To me I interpreted that as clearing afternoon. Not evening. And showers would be mostly in the morning. Especially when checking the radar this morning and we were slightly south of a decent shower.

What we had today was fog with light winds changing to southerly with rain late afternoon. Rain clearing during night.
Thanks for that. I think I found it:

"A few showers, chance heavy, clear late afternoon. S'ly."

Late afternoon = 3PM -> 6PM.

Given that it's 6PM and still raining in Hamilton, doesn't look like that one has worked out.
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that shower activity over the Waikato that is still going is not something you would expect normally with a SE change?
I suspect there is a bit of convergence...with a stronger southerly running up the coast further to the west, coming from Cook straight and over Taranaki..and lighter winds over the land
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I would have to think that is the first June ever in Christchurch (Airport) where we didn't get a maximum temperature under 10C, incredible!
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I think the first 6 months have turned out to be the warmest on record?
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No cold outbreaks for June, frost free here.
I see Ruapehu picked up some decent snow at higher levels this week. More snow there later next week for the ski fields but it probably start as rain at lower levels.
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I see they are due to open this weekend
Base - Upper mountain
47cm
New snow
10cm
last 24hrs
Total Snow This Season
53cm

upper mountain base of 47cm..that is not ever half a m ...that will hardly cover the rocks?
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I think it was mostly rain at the lower ski field levels this week.
School holidays next weekend so they will be hoping the low system in the models for later next week can deliver.
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June 2016 was another near-record warm month, with very few days cooler than normal.
Some good late rainfalls in the upper North Island, the NW of the South Island and coastal Otago,
otherwise very dry in eastern and southern parts.
Overall, a very sunny first-half of the month made up for a rather cloudy second-half.

Jun 2016 Climate Anomaly Map ℅ NIWA.gif
Some very preliminary June 2016 figures for the main centres:

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June 2016 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        16.7  +1.4      9.8  +1.4     13.2  +1.4     142  120% 
Auckland Aero            16.3  +1.1      9.3  +0.9     12.8  +1.0     125  116% 
Tauranga Aero            16.5  +1.4      8.3  +1.4     12.4  +1.4     110*  96%*
Hamilton Aero            15.3  +1.1      5.8  +1.3     10.5  +1.1     140  112% 
Hamilton, Ruakura        15.7  +1.4      6.1  +1.3     10.9  +1.3     140  120% 
Wellington, Kelburn      14.0  +1.8      9.1  +1.9     11.5  +1.8     142  103% 
Christchurch Aero        13.8  +2.1      2.3  +1.2      8.1  +1.7      23   40% 
Dunedin, Musselburgh     13.3  +2.7      4.6  +0.6      8.9  +1.6      33   57%
Greymouth Aero           13.1  +0.6      6.5  +1.4      9.8  +1.0     213   89%

* Note: Tauranga Aero doesn't include missing data for June 22, during which an estimated 50-60mm of rain is likely to have fallen. Musselburgh data also missing for first days of June. 
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spwill wrote:No cold outbreaks for June, frost free here.
I see Ruapehu picked up some decent snow at higher levels this week. More snow there later next week for the ski fields but it probably start as rain at lower levels.
Its been quite the roller coaster ride this year at Ruapehu. Several times there has been a decent base form right down to carpark level but it keeps losing the battle against the rain. Pitty there was bugger all moisture with the southerly that came screaming through last night..
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The pattern to date has been better for the Australian ski fields.
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June was our 4th consecutive month of below average rainfall here, my station recorded 87mm for the month. Mild temps with avg min 9.0 and avg max 16.4
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yes, below average rain here too (as we missed a couple of those heavy rain bands)
100mm, when the average for here is closer to 130 to 140mm for june
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A month of two halves…
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Nev wrote:A month of two halves…
Jun 2016 Climate Anomaly half-maps ℅ NIWA.gif
For Wellington the sun contrast produced near-record values at both ends of the scale. Rainfall wasn't quite enough to wipe out the YTD deficit.
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Exceptionally warm in Wgtn though, with Kelburn recording its highest ever June average T-min and 2nd-equal highest average T-mean.

While further south, Dunedin, Musselburgh recorded both its highest ever June average T-mean and average T-max, and Chch Aero recorded its 2nd highest June average T-mean.
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Nev wrote:Exceptionally warm in Wgtn though, with Kelburn recording its highest ever June average T-min and 2nd-equal highest average T-mean.

While further south, Dunedin, Musselburgh recorded both its highest ever June average T-mean and average T-max, and Chch Aero recorded its 2nd highest June average T-mean.
Yes, the Tmins on some nights were amazingly high.
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How did it compare with June 2014?
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Nationally I think we might fall a little short 2014's June record.

Here's some figures for Wellington though… :-)

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Kelburn highest average June temps since 1928

T-max           T-min          T-mean          
14.3  2003      9.1  2016      11.6  2003 
14.2  1971      9.0  2003      11.5  2016 
14.1  2014      8.8  2014      11.5  2014 
14.0  2016      8.8  1985      11.4  1971 
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Comparing my station's data for June 2015 and June 2016 I recorded a 3.3°C higher average temperature this year. Yet to see a flurry at 200m
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Here's NIWA's preliminary, 'June National Climate Summary'.

The 3rd warmest June on record, unusually dry and sunny for many


The national average temp of 10.2C was 1.6C above normal.

The month's highest temp of 25.1C was recorded at Napier on the 10th, and the lowest temp of -8.2C was recorded at Mt Cook on the 7th.
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