General August Weather

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sun 06/08/2017 08:32

850mb temperature anomaly chart indicating milder conditions for NZ this week.

ECMWF chart for Wednesday.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sun 06/08/2017 12:42

Yes, milder and cold days from now on.
Few springy things popping up, despite the persistence of frosty mornings here.

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Mon 07/08/2017 00:08

13 degrees at midnight in Christchurch in early August is certainly a win

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Mon 07/08/2017 11:37

Much colder than that in Geraldine. Dipt down to zero degrees but now up to 16C .
Very pleasant.

hozza95 · Unread post by **hozza95** » Mon 07/08/2017 17:31

Warmest day since April here, getting to 16

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Mon 07/08/2017 22:36

A rather warm day around New Zealand today with some near to record temperatures.
I wonder how hot it was in Riccarton?

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Mon 07/08/2017 22:49

I cleaned my station today and when I plugged it back in it recorded 19. It sure was a warm afternoon today.

Last night it rained for a good hour before the bucket began tipping. Bloody spiders had webbed the tipper. They had also stopped the internal fan. All clean and ready to be home to a new hoard of spiders.

Orion · Unread post by **Orion** » Tue 08/08/2017 08:50

"All clean and ready to be home to a new hoard of spiders"

SnwAddct · Unread post by **SnwAddct** » Tue 08/08/2017 08:57

Metservice going for 100mm+ of rain to ALL levels at Mt Ruapehu over the next 24+ hours, will be huge damage to the snow pack. Am booked in to spend 10ish days down there from 27th August onwards, hopefully things come right again..

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Tue 08/08/2017 09:20

jamie wrote:I cleaned my station today and when I plugged it back in it recorded 19. It sure was a warm afternoon today.

Last night it rained for a good hour before the bucket began tipping. Bloody spiders had webbed the tipper. They had also stopped the internal fan. All clean and ready to be home to a new hoard of spiders.

There must be some kind of deterrent that you could spray on...maybe

melja · Unread post by **melja** » Tue 08/08/2017 09:57

Ripcord from a hardware store, used for spider deterrent on house exterior and lasts about 12 months. Need to spray the inside tho as washed off in rain.

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NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Tue 08/08/2017 12:43

I had a bird, I think it was a Starling that managed to get into my Stevenson's Screen and made a large nest.
My wife told me off for removing it and felt sorry for the poor Starling.
I told her that it should make a nest somewhere else as not to affect my readings.
Anyway, back on topic, a thick cloud cover for today, not like the lovely mild day yesterday.
If it wasn't there, there would be another warm day for us down here.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Wed 09/08/2017 07:01

Your standard winter polar trough moving across the North Island tomorrow/early Friday. Thunder/small hail in the west and north.

For Auckland city we may get a rumble of thunder tomorrow morning and then a drier interlude with deeper convection returning in the evening.

500mb 6pm Thursday.

David · Unread post by **David** » Wed 09/08/2017 07:32

Last night was the warmest night for some time, min 14C.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 09/08/2017 13:46

I think the best chance for thunder here is early Friday morning in the west.

Light -mod rain here now easing, 15C

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Wed 09/08/2017 21:01

Look likely this system seem to be a bit disappointing as far as interesting weather goes

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Wed 09/08/2017 21:22

well not really, there wasnt supposed to be much rain but here's it raining moderately heavy for the hour or so.

melja · Unread post by **melja** » Thu 10/08/2017 09:04

We had 6mm last night

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jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Thu 10/08/2017 10:16

The next week looks very unsettled spring like conditions with westerly winds and moisture. Not my favourite type of pattern!

Thunder081 · Unread post by **Thunder081** » Thu 10/08/2017 14:10

Does anyone have any 120km BoP or canterbury radar images from the MS website that have pink and green on them? Need them for a project I'm doing.

David · Unread post by **David** » Thu 10/08/2017 18:37

Thunder081 wrote:Does anyone have any 120km BoP or canterbury radar images from the MS website that have pink and green on them? Need them for a project I'm doing.

I did find this post from Feb 2015 - hope it's useful http://weatherforum.org.nz/phpBB3/viewt ... il#p151015

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Thu 10/08/2017 19:05

That would be something very rear here?

....anyway a lovely day here. I heard someone in the local supermarket said they nearly got sunburnt today

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Thu 10/08/2017 19:39

Spillover thunder from the alps on the cards for inland South Island this weekend.
A series of Jet streams moving across the country at the weekend. Speed shear is a great ingredient for lightning.

mikestormchaser · Unread post by **mikestormchaser** » Thu 10/08/2017 21:19

NZstorm wrote:Spillover thunder from the alps on the cards for inland South Island this weekend.
A series of Jet streams moving across the country at the weekend. Speed shear is a great ingredient for lightning.

I see Sunday is showing signs of spring thunder activity over the south island. The skies have had some real ominous look about it the last week or so. Seen some CBS over toward the West coast this evening to. Signs of a good storm season ahead maybe, over due for one in Canterbury

Thunder081 · Unread post by **Thunder081** » Thu 10/08/2017 21:38

David wrote:
Thunder081 wrote:Does anyone have any 120km BoP or canterbury radar images from the MS website that have pink and green on them? Need them for a project I'm doing.
I did find this post from Feb 2015 - hope it's useful http://weatherforum.org.nz/phpBB3/viewt ... il#p151015

Thank you David

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