General March Weather

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Welcome to Autumn

[Orion]

Has been overcast here for some hours, light drizzle falling at the moment.

[tunster]

In case you're interested it's 5 years tonight since the bomb low which affected Taranaki. We made a post about it on the FB page (https://www.facebook.com/MetService/pos ... 8888747832). There were sustained winds of 90 knots at the Maui field!

That was in pre-Himawari days. It would have been incredible to watch that low develop with 10 minute satellite imagery.

[SnwAddct]

March already, can't beleive it. Looking like a rather settled period for the next week with some rather interesting scenarios popping up beyond that..

[Manukau heads obs]

kewl re post about that Taranaki storm and the sting jet

[einzack]

I was in New Plymouth during that and remember it well. Most of the nasty stuff was in South Taranaki, but still it was a wild night!

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Interesting cloud today, cumulus showing some instability.
wind directions interesting today as well

[NZstorm]

The weather should be okay for Eden Park cricket tomorrow. But there will be a moist SW so a shower or two not impossible.

Precip on the horizon for many places from early next week. Potential for heavy falls in the upper North Island Wednesday.

[Bradley]

Things starting to look very interesting next Tuesday in the east of the South Island with a low pressure system and cold front meeting...

[einzack]

11°C drop in 10mins yesterday:
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/sout ... day-around

what is the largest short-term temp drop in NZ? (not suggesting it was us yesterday)....

[einzack]

Opps double post somehow....

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Didn't drop that significantly here but it did cool down overnight from the 27C high that I recorded here yesterday.

[spwill]

Tasman Sea low pressure this week with the top of NZ getting stuck in a damp rather humid flow, GFS has dps above 20C later in the week for northern NZ.

[Manukau heads obs]

what's the bet the main rain bands will stall just short of the NI?

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Better not get too wet. I have a wedding to go to next Friday at Kumeu.

[midgrove]

Christchurch airport dropped from 39 degrees at 1pm to 17 deg at 7pm after the record breaking high temps on 7th Feb 1973, so there may have been a record short term fall when the southerly went through. My personal recollection was that the temp near Timaru was 39 deg at midday then the southerly went through and a few hours later it was 17 deg and drizzling.

[RWood]

Christchurch airport dropped from 39 degrees at 1pm to 17 deg at 7pm after the record breaking high temps on 7th Feb 1973, so there may have been a record short term fall when the southerly went through. My personal recollection was that the temp near Timaru was 39 deg at midday then the southerly went through and a few hours later it was 17 deg and drizzling.

Ch'ch Gardens reached 41.6C that day, not sure about the later hours - Tmin for the hours to 9am on the 8th was 12.7C.

[Captain Salty]

I would have to rank today as Christchurch's best of the "summer" or at least that fell on a weekend. Warm, little wind, hardly any cloud, a perfect day

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Yes, it was, no doubt some members of the Pineglades nudist camp at Rolleston would of got a wee bit sunburnt today.
Today's maximum was 29.4c here, but gradually cooled with the NE then further so with the SW from about 7:30pm. 16c @ 10pm.

[NZstorm]

Looking like a trough will dominate Northland's weather for the next 6 days and likely affect Auckland to Bay of Plenty later tomorrow into Wednesday with heavy rain risk. Isolated thunderstorms as well.

[spwill]

A humid week in the far north, dp around 20C for Kaitaia for much of the week, GFS has been showing a lot of instability near the top of NZ in the moist air.

[cbm]

Certainly a slow moving low, looking at the charts.

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[Manukau heads obs]

wow, much colder here this morning
crisp autumn feel

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

All cloud cleared away to become a clear sunny day and the wind reverse back to a light NE.
65mm for the recent rainy event recorded at my rain gauge at Halswell.

[Orion]

Sky was clear a couple of hours ago, now quite misty outside.
9.9deg C