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Re: General February Weather

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Ended up being a lot warmer here today than forcasted, ended up reaching 27.8deg.
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Richard wrote: Fri 09/02/2018 16:27 Ended up being a lot warmer here today than forcasted, ended up reaching 27.8deg.
The coolest day in a long while here, just 20C max. Warm fronts are classic for giving very cool surface conditions ahead of the warm change. Warmer tomorrow with hopefully not too much precip.
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If there is one thing the annoys me is that how the media outlets change the weather forecasts from what's given by the MetS, one radio station spoke of 'rain' for today, while TV3 weather spoke of 'showers' neither of which will happen till at least after dark. We have a local horse races day today, how many people have put off coming thanks to there misinformation. :mad:

There ya go, there's my wee gripe for the morning :D
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Richard wrote: Sat 10/02/2018 08:41 If there is one thing the annoys me is that how the media outlets change the weather forecasts from what's given by the MetS, one radio station spoke of 'rain' for today, while TV3 weather spoke of 'showers' neither of which will happen till at least after dark. We have a local horse races day today, how many people have put off coming thanks to there misinformation. :mad:

There ya go, there's my wee gripe for the morning :D
And that is 99% of the reason why the general public have a poor impression of forecast accuracy. Those of us working with the model data know the accuracy level and its pretty good, but the public only get to hear the spoken words of the presenters or the generalised and generic graphics, and they get a different message.
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Foggy morning here
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Super hot and humid start in Chch, 20C and 97% humidity. My open windows fogged up this morning!

30C later, hopefully the humidity should drop away with the nor'wester.
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Chris W wrote: Mon 12/02/2018 09:12 Super hot and humid start in Chch, 20C and 97% humidity. My open windows fogged up this morning!

30C later, hopefully the humidity should drop away with the nor'wester.
NW may not get there till later as its not here atm, always takes a lot longer to reach CHCH
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Was NW in Amberley 8.30 this morning, light humid NW in Hawarden ATM.

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melja wrote: Mon 12/02/2018 09:41 Was NW in Amberley 8.30 this morning, light humid NW in Hawarden ATM.

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Hardly a breath here. Amberley gets a lot of that nighttime and early NW, air that drops out of the Waipara valley which is not always relates to any NW airflow over Canterbury
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20 degree Dew Point in ChCh still
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NW by the looks in Rangiora, 31 and only 40% humidity

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Yes for Canterbury today it is a very humid NE v a drier warmer NW
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PWS very close to my officeP
https://www.wunderground.com/personal-w ... CANTERB108

Interestingly it swung NW around 6am then back to NE at 9am.

27.6C and DP 21C, going to take a brief walk to check it out!
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A moderate NW came through about 1.00pm, ended up with a 29deg high
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Records for warmest overnight low in some locations might be in danger tonight.

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I see Canterbury Weather Updates are trying to get radar images onto their website, I would imagine that MS would charge them a lot to do that. Thoughts?

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There was no strong winds forcasted for my area today, been some solid gusts at times this afternoon.
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Fine day in Auckland with 29C. Not much of a sea breeze today.
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Very windy NW in Rangiora this afternoon, lots of small branches breaking.

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Got to 28 here with dewpoint around 18C. Stunning weather the last 2 days.
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28.7 today but not once felt “hot”. Dew point 16-18. Much better than the 22-23 we had a few days ago.
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melja wrote: Fri 16/02/2018 17:25 Very windy NW in Rangiora this afternoon, lots of small branches breaking.

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Yes was windy while we were there, middle child who stayed home said there had been next to no wind all day. Odd how that happens quite often.
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What’s coming up on the radars in the upper north island?
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Insects, I think. Seems dense just N of Kaipara Harbour though. No sign of precipitation, so I can't think of anything else?
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Re: General February Weather

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Anomalous Propagation of a low level temperature inversion at about 400m ASL I think...
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