General January Weather

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

A colder southerly has come through dropping the temperature a bit.

[NZstorm]

Talking of dew point, last night at 10.30pm i had to walk across the lawn bare footed, i noticed a dew on the grass, went inside and up up the temp and it was 24deg, if a dew is forming at 24 is that a 24deg dew point.?

It must have been a clear calm evening Richard to get a dew forming on the lawn. The formation of dew does mean the dewpoint on the grass is close to the temperature on the grass. Typically with radiative cooling, the grass temperature can be a few degrees cooler than the air temp.

[Richard]

Yes it was clear and calm. No dew tonight with this NW wind

[Razor]

Too early to start a February thread, but the Tasman is definitely boing something interesting up to kick the month off. GFS really going to town this morning, but a week out yet so we shall see where and how nasty in a few days I guess

[spwill]

Expect stormy weather next week, a tropical system to evolve and head NZs way.

[Cyclone Tracy]

27c with a 20c DP here. Fairly stock standard for this summer. All time temperature records well within range now for most areas.

Yes Razor and spwill, potentially an interesting set up next week. I put my 2 cents worth to this thread on the subject viewtopic.php?f=9&t=5733&p=172678#p172678

[spwill]

Certainly something to watch next week.
For this weekend there is wind convergence showing up over Auckland so an isolated heavy afternoon shower risk there. Might be isolated thunder over South Auckland later Saturday.

[Richard]

Warmest day this summer, just reached 33deg.

[Richard]

Looks like its peaked out 34.4deg, too bloody hot.

[Richard]

Thunder heard to the WSW, going for closer look

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Thunder heard to the WSW, going for closer look

Not looking too good down here, sadly

[Richard]

Too hot to be bothered chasing, stay here and see what happens as appears to coming this way.

Still getting hotter, now on 35deg.

[jamie]

Too hot to be bothered chasing, stay here and see what happens as appears to coming this way.

Still getting hotter, now on 35deg.

That’s a true sign you have had your fix of storms this summer Richard. A storm deprived Richard would have chased haha.

[Richard]

Maybe i need to seek professional help Jamie. This is just too horribly hot at the moment, ive got really cold ground water so ive been under the hose about 5 times today

[Richard]

No sure if much will come of the storm to the west but its getting closer

[Richard]

And when you look at how far north the Marlborough storms are from here the height is the cloud is amazing

[FIREFROG]

a few decent claps of thunder overhead here

[melja]

Loud thunder overhead in Rangiora

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[melja]

Looks to be a small but intense cell development around the waimak mouth area

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[petem8nz]

Thunder north and west of new Brighton

[TonyT]

Some distant thunder here too, and noticeable cooler today than yesterday, temps around 25-26 compared to 30-31 yeseterday.

[Chris W]

Quite the cb north of town.

[melja]

Lots of thunder now to my NW, very slow moving.
MS has a thunderstorm warning out but for a strange area that shows not much on the radar.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Low cloud rolled in from the south from 5pm onwards stuffing up anything down here but glad to see you guys are getting some action rather than me here down in Geraldine taking the lion's share of storms, although some of them were weak, since October.
I see Waiau got up to 37C today according to TV One weather presenter and meteorologist, Dan.

[Chris W]

Drove to Kaiapoi to check out the departing first storm, got a few CGs and rumbles from that. Round 2 looks to be approaching from the west.