General September Weather

[RWood]

The only trouble with this warm weather, means less the fire will be going so will have to use electricity to heat the water which I haven't used since March.
Also flies and other annoying insects, wasps etc. will start making an appearance.

The warmth is overdue. Cold start to the month over quite a substantial area.

[TonyT]

The only trouble with this warm weather, means less the fire will be going so will have to use electricity to heat the water which I haven't used since March.
Also flies and other annoying insects, wasps etc. will start making an appearance.

Cold October on the way.

[Richard]

Anyone get to see the sunrise ?, amazing bright red from bush fire smoke.

You say 'Cold October' coming up Tony, what type of weather will that be you think?

[TonyT]

Anyone get to see the sunrise ?, amazing bright red from bush fire smoke.

You say 'Cold October' coming up Tony, what type of weather will that be you think?

Anticyclones in the Tasman = southwest airflow over NZ.

[Richard]

Hopefully that might mean unstable Oct period

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Cold October on the way.

Good. Got some more firewood in yesterday,
Immm...... interesting?
Probably the SW that come through will be mostly dry ones?

[David]

Mean temperature here for the first 11 days of the month is equal to our average temp for the previous month of August... so looking forward to some warmer weather.

[Richard]

A lovely day its been apart from the smoke haze, light winds and 19deg max

[Richard]

A lovely day its been apart from the smoke haze, light winds and 19deg max
It appears to be dust and not smoke, that explains why the sun was deep red this morning, reminded me of the outback sunsets

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[NZstorm]

Looking at the airport data today the warmest spot was Pukaki Airport and also Mt Cook Airport on 21C.

But mild temps over the whole country today.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

A lovely day its been apart from the smoke haze, light winds and 19deg max

It was like that down here as well.
A hazy smokey sky and the sunlight looking slightly orange on the white concrete.

[Orion]

A lovely day its been apart from the smoke haze, light winds and 19deg max

It was like that down here as well.
A hazy smokey sky and the sunlighgt looking slightly orange on the white concrete.

Like that in Ashburton as well.

[Richard]

It was like that down here as well.
A hazy smokey sky and the sunlighgt looking slightly orange on the white concrete.

Like that in Ashburton as well.

I dont recall Australian top soil being that viable in the past,

[David]

Seems we have anticyclonic gloom off the Tasman this morning... totally overcast with baro at 1027hPa

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Lovely day down here with the temperature at 21C with a light northerly blowing.
Still got that hazy sky though not as bad as yesterday.
Hearing one ot two lawnmowers going, so that is a sign of Spring.
We need the rain though

[NZstorm]

I see Gisborne Airport on 25C currently and Dunedin Airport 22C.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

I see Gisborne Airport on 25C currently and Dunedin Airport 22C.

23C here but a bit cooler at Levels and Ashburton.

[Richard]

Blowing a gale here this afternoon meaning it kept it cooler on 15deg. We often seem to get gales when there's no warning issued and when they are issued it wont.

[Cyclone Tracy]

Polar vortex is about to let the Aussies know that cold snaps aren't off the table yet. EC, Access R and GFS project snow down to 400m in Victoria and sea level in parts of Tassie. That upper trough then moves into the Tasman. It will be interesting to see if it gets things moving in the sub tropics early next week.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

That upper trough then moves into the Tasman. It will be interesting to see if it gets things moving in the sub tropics early next week.

Hope not. Want the anticyclones to move NE over the upper NZ and clear the skies of lows around the Auckland area so the thunderstorm potential becomes less up there.

[NZstorm]

A large inversion on the NZWP sounding last night which is why we have the anticyclonic gloom over the west of the North Island currently.

[RWood]

A large inversion on the NZWP sounding last night which is why we have the anticyclonic gloom over the west of the North Island currently.

Sunny here this morning but there was plenty of irritating cloud over the west of the city yesterday. Still a big sunshine deficit to be caught up, both for this month and YTD.

[Richard]

Odd how sometimes the NW winds like today are strong inland and be calm by the coast, yet it can be the other way around other times, don't know how that works.

[Razor]

Odd how sometimes the NW winds like today are strong inland and be calm by the coast, yet it can be the other way around other times, don't know how that works.

It's kind like a rollover effect isn't it? Hot day here now, up into the mid 20s

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

I reckon the NW winds tend to 'bounce' as it flows across the plains, that's why some days it can be windy in some places but calm in others.
Lovely blue-dome day here today. Seems that the haze has cleared away. Bit of an easterly here.