General April Weather

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Tue 25/04/2017 20:29

Grey Lynn got to 22C today.

Tornado Tim · Unread post by **Tornado Tim** » Wed 26/04/2017 08:57

Down to 4 degrees this morning, a little chilly. Certainly no Indian Summer this year.....

Bradley · Unread post by **Bradley** » Thu 27/04/2017 12:58

NIWA's rain forecast model is off with the fairies with 27mm of rain forecast for Christchurch on Sunday. It's still hard to believe it ranked first in terms of accuracy when The Press did a study of forecast accuracy comparing it other agencies such as Metservice, I find it to be the least accurate...

Flutterbye · Unread post by **Flutterbye** » Thu 27/04/2017 13:34

Bradley wrote:NIWA's rain forecast model is off with the fairies with 27mm of rain forecast for Christchurch on Sunday. It's still hard to believe it ranked first in terms of accuracy when The Press did a study of forecast accuracy comparing it other agencies such as Metservice, I find it to be the least accurate...

I agree. It's on a par with Weatherwatch and their computer generated forecasts/temps for some areas!

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Thu 27/04/2017 20:41

GFS looking convective Saturday to Monday time frame for upper North Island.

Localised downpours are possible late Saturday/Sunday.

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Fri 28/04/2017 11:17

Wonderful warm weather here the past couple of days. Sitting around 25 degrees for my lunchtime run today, loving it!

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Fri 28/04/2017 14:35

April weather has been very good this year. Rainfall numbers are up for a big part of NZ however much of the rainfall was from short duration heavy falls.

Looks like we will see some heavy showers in the Auckland area Sunday morning and again overnight Sun into Monday am.

Orion · Unread post by **Orion** » Fri 28/04/2017 17:46

Some brilliant orange sunset clouds here at the moment.

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Fri 28/04/2017 21:34

28.2 at Jeff's today. 26 at Chch Aero

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Fri 28/04/2017 21:41

Lovely sunset all-right this evening and a rather warm day to boot.
Got up to 24.9C here today in north to NW conditions.

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Sat 29/04/2017 07:13

Huh? The ms computer model has 80mm for us tonight. Where has that come from?

David · Unread post by **David** » Sat 29/04/2017 16:27

A wet day here but nothing too heavy. 18mm so far.

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Sat 29/04/2017 17:55

Another lovely day in the south. Cooler than yesterday but warmer than I suspect tomorrow will be

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Sat 29/04/2017 19:11

jamie wrote:Huh? The ms computer model has 80mm for us tonight. Where has that come from?

Now showing less than 5mm for tonight. How can they publish something so volatile?

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sat 29/04/2017 20:22

jamie wrote:
jamie wrote:Huh? The ms computer model has 80mm for us tonight. Where has that come from?
Now showing less than 5mm for tonight. How can they publish something so volatile?

A pool of unstable air to cross overnight/morning. We will have to see what comes of it.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sat 29/04/2017 21:04

Short spell of heavy rain here with Ricky's station showing 16.4mm last hr.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sat 29/04/2017 21:22

Nice fine sunny day here and we had the Morris Dancers around.
Sadly the frocks didn't arrive so we just had to sit around and drink beer.

2nd to last readings from this site.

Manukau heads obs · Sun 30/04/2017 06:50

18mm here
10mm short of a record April rain total (152mm here this month)

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Sun 30/04/2017 07:22

Ended up with 30mm here. Sitting on 235 for the month. Two very wet months in a row. On the back of a wet month.

Manukau heads obs · Sun 30/04/2017 07:39

rain heavier here currently than what rain radar shows (very low clouds, i.e under radar beam)

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sun 30/04/2017 08:49

32.2mm at Greylynn with 15 mm falling in an hour yesterday evening, overnight min was a balmy 17C.

Tomorrow night looks chilly for Auckland, cold dry air, clear sky cooling,might be a breeze to hold temperatures up a bit.

David · Unread post by **David** » Sun 30/04/2017 10:36

Manukau heads obs wrote:rain heavier here currently than what rain radar shows (very low clouds, i.e under radar beam)

Yes I noticed too - I very rarely get wet on exercise thanks to the rain radar, but today I got soaked...

Orion · Unread post by **Orion** » Sun 30/04/2017 11:40

Wet and windy, southerly, here and 9.1deg C at present.

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Sun 30/04/2017 14:35

Getting more rain than what was forcasted, MS said yesterday that we would get around 3mm, up 7mm so far with a few more hours to go yet.

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Sun 30/04/2017 15:17

Flutterbye wrote:
Bradley wrote:NIWA's rain forecast model is off with the fairies with 27mm of rain forecast for Christchurch on Sunday. It's still hard to believe it ranked first in terms of accuracy when The Press did a study of forecast accuracy comparing it other agencies such as Metservice, I find it to be the least accurate...
I agree. It's on a par with Weatherwatch and their computer generated forecasts/temps for some areas!

Some humble pie on offer, 19mm and counting here, more to come yet in showers. Rather breezy now too.

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