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As long as it stays higher than 300m i'll be happy

850mb chart for midday Thursday. A cold front spreads cold air/precip northwards over the South Island.

Looks like the direction and timing of that low will kill off any cold air moving up the country on Thursday, no hope of any low level snow for Canterbury now, at least going by the latest models...

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/artic ... d=11879370

By Thursday virtually the entire country will be under a storm cloud. Bay of Plenty, Auckland, Northland and Canterbury are expected to be the worst affected.

Niwa is expecting up to 62mm and 60.8mm of rain to fall in Whangarei and Kaitaia on Thursday and 21.8mm for Auckland.

I think 21.9mm for Auckland looks more likely

Quite a temperature difference across the Auckland region overnight. I see Whangaparaoa was around 13C, but the min was 6.3C here.

I love how someone has edited the Wikipedia page for Explosive Cyclogenesis to explain the frequent misuse of the term "weather bomb" by NZ media

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_cyclogenesis

Excellent day for the Lions game here. Fine with just a light refreshing breeze that isn't cold. UK accents heard from all directions on the street.

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Sunny 17C here , min of 9C , love this weather at this time of year.

A mild few days ahead but with some rain or showers in the mix here from later tomorrow.

Rogue wrote:I love how someone has edited the Wikipedia page for Explosive Cyclogenesis to explain the frequent misuse of the term "weather bomb" by NZ media

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_cyclogenesis

Good finding

the media made a huge thing out of this weather coming
today was supposed to be gales and heavy rain according to the media (for Auckland)

often though the rain is delayed a bit from the north (for Auckland)

it is coming though, the cold front from the southern ocean is going to push everything onto the NI

Sunrise will be in ten minutes or so: the sky is filled with pink clouds at the moment

Orion wrote:Sunrise will be in ten minutes or so: the sky is filled with pink clouds at the moment

Yes including airplane who had someone who left there lunch behind, its done two lots of 360 turns, is there fog at CHCH or something

Yep, been fog hanging around Chch since yesterday evening according to metars…

'Shortest day brings morning fog for north and west Christchurch' - The Press

ok, they will be getting sick of fly around in circles up there, its onto its third 360 deg turn

Coldest morning of the year so far down this way followed by incoming cloud, which if it hangs round will make for a cold ol' day.
Forecast was for it to become cloudy during the day, so it might be here to stay.
So currently overcast and -1.1°C.

Nev wrote:Yep, been fog hanging around Chch since yesterday evening according to metars…

'Shortest day brings morning fog for north and west Christchurch' - The Press

Very localised fog, 95% of Christchurch is clear, a fog bank lies to the western fringe of town

Dp of 15 -16C over northern NZ tomorrow, some heavy showers in the mix tomorrow afternoon.

I see Tiamru is still -1.3C at 10:12 this morning!

Just shy of 17deg here, lovely and mild

In contrast to the summery North Canterbury, South Canterbury is still shivering, with Timaru on 2.9°C.
Here in North Otago, we're sitting on 3.2°C.
Went for a run to try to warm myself up and our local lagoon is still frozen at 1:30pm!

einzack wrote:In contrast to the summery North Canterbury, South Canterbury is still shivering, with Timaru on 2.9°C.
Here in North Otago, we're sitting on 3.2°C.
Went for a run to try to warm myself up and our local lagoon is still frozen at 1:30pm!

Warm advection looms

03Stormchaser wrote:I see Tiamru is still -1.3C at 10:12 this morning!

Correct.
It never got above zero here until about noon here and now it only sits on 3.9C
Thick cloud cover with a NW Arch over to the west over Mt. Peel and hardly any wind.
Mammatus layers in the cloud plus stripy bits feeding into the mamma at the moment overhead.

Richard wrote:ok, they will be getting sick of fly around in circles up there, its onto its third 360 deg turn

You get a lot of that over Heathrow.
I noticed that here the other week a plane heading north did a complete U turn and buggered off back to where it came from.

Pushing 20 degrees at Little River, nearly 10 times warmer than Timaru as at 2:15pm. Amazing.

Still cold and still down here with the sun trying to poke through the edge of the NW Arch which is rather thick with some nice forms in it. Might crack 5C if we're lucky