General October Weather

[Thunder]

Yes NZstorm have thought the same, will keep an eye out!

[NZstorm]

A lot of lightning out in the Tasman overnight with a storm making it to Taranaki early am.

Storms developed along a strong front and within entrance region of jet stream. The front has shifted northward.

4.30am Blitzortung

[Dean.]

Up at Mt cook for the half marathon and its a bit bloody rough weather wise today.

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Spent the weekend up at Mt Cook for the half marathon as well...splendid weather apart from Saturday morning.
Heavy showers this morning cold with winter temps.

[Bradley]

I think Metservice may have had the work experience kid in control this morning, 'a few morning showers' isn't entirely an accurate way to describe the persistent heavy rain rain that's been falling for the last hour in pretty much all of mid Canterbury this morning More to come by the looks of it too

[Richard]

Up this way the clouds are building up, so some of that heavy rain would be nice ,even some thunder looking to the SW

[shovelopikis]

yes good storm in taranaki this morning, great show

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Yes. Very heavy rain late morning, which I call or relate to 'thundery falls'. 10mm in about an hour I noticed, at Halswell with some flooding around Wigram. Not much wind, although it was southerly.

[Richard]

Not a drop of rain here in the end, rain clouds seem to hate my place, they stay well clear.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Interesting. Lots of red on the radar from today's thundery falls passing over Christchurch, especially around noon, mind you it moved from the SW out to the east.
Judging by the clouds that formed this afternoon, lots of Cu build ups, I thought that you may of got something up there, following this thundery downpour.

[TonyT]

We got more rain out of the showers which blew from the west mid morning than we did from the northeast moving rainband which gave the heavier falls south of Chch and seemed to weaken quite quickly as it moved north over us.

[jamie]

It's raining here. Must be quite local development. Latest radar scans showing so too.

[spwill]

The coolest day here for atleast a few weeks due to cloud cover, max 15C, stayed dry here.
Tomorrow looks brighter with sunny spells.

[melja]

Looks like there's some persistent heavy rain showing up for this weekend along the east coast of the south island, more south Cant then moving up Chch way.

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[einzack]

It was 0.5°C at 7am yesterday morning, and 16.0°C at the same time this morning.
That's all...

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Looking nice and sunny Friday and Saturday according to Coast radio

[David]

Was a nice warm day in Auckland with 21C max, plenty of sunshine. Photo taken at 1pm today, looking west towards the CBD

[Orion]

Looks like a very nice afternoon on the Waterfront, David

[NZstorm]

Looking like a ridge coming in for next week. Will be good to get a dry period.

Some cold upper air 500mb -25C to cross the North Island late Friday and Saturday with a little bit of thunder.

[spwill]

We usually see a tendency for ridging over the upper North Island by mid October with stable southwesterlies however this Spring we may see more northern lows than normal with the near La Nina conditions.

Mostly cloudy for Auckland today with some showers, tomorrow looks brighter with plenty of sunshine.

[Orion]

Raining nicely here at present, can hear it on roof, and cars swishing past on the street

[Richard]

youre lucky, wish it would finally rain here

[cbm]

Unexpectedly fine to have lunch down by the river. NW breeze against the current creating a strong reflection. Concrete path in front has been underwater at times during past week.

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[Richard]

nice photo.

Picked up 0.5 of a mil from today's SW change

[Thunder081]

Hey guys I made this rain radar timelapse for October so far.

NZ Rain Radar Timelapse by mk weather, on Flickr

[Manukau heads obs]

nice