General February weather
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General February weather
A windy day for many to start the month, will we see another "southerly buster" event push up the east coast of the South Island during the day?
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Re: General February weather
People looking forward to the cooler changel Gore on 11 degrees Dunedin 26...on its way ☺
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Re: General February weather
Weather pattern is about to change in the next 7 days IMO. Hadley cell is now as south as it’s been since last summer, adjusting the subtropical ridge and giving an opportunity for tropical depressions to find an exit door towards the mid latitudes. At the same time, upper polar troughs dig into the ridge from the south and change the polar jet with sea surface temperatures simmering in the region. This will erupt around NZ towards mid Feb if the synoptics line up. Here is my 2 cents worth
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Re: General February weather
GFS showing moist easterlies and upper level cooling next week, a recipe for showers and possible Tstorms, see how this looks in the models over the next few days, will be a change from the southwesterlies.
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Re: General February weather
And still 27C , I'm only 10km East there but cool Easterly has arrived and dropped temp down to 24C. First time it's not hot in 6 days ( apart from early morning)
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Re: General February weather
I see Pukaki was 29C today after a chilly low of 4C.
Hamilton looks to be the runner up with a high of 27C after a low of 17C.
Hamilton looks to be the runner up with a high of 27C after a low of 17C.
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Re: General February weather
Temperature 5C at Pukaki airport this morning but 19C at Mt Cook airport with a NW.
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Re: General February weather
And 19 is very warm considering how high Mt Cook airport is. The NW wind has just arrived here as well.
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Re: General February weather
Feeling like a very hot one in the making today, as yet no sign of the dreaded easterly cooling factor. Cicada's going haywire in Hagley Park
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Re: General February weather
I have experienced a warm fohn NW wind at Mt Cook at 8am and the area has miles of dry rocky river bed which will more easily heat up.
Rain chances for the North Island this week have been reducing, very dry conditions here but it is February.
Rain chances for the North Island this week have been reducing, very dry conditions here but it is February.
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Re: General February weather
Haven't seen a cloud in the sky all day, yet, so far.
Light wind, nearly touching 30C here.
Light wind, nearly touching 30C here.
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Re: General February weather
Dunno about that. I can remember morris dancing in Oamaru one November and it was 33C
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Re: General February weather
It is really, When it comes to that cooling onshore wind its by far the eastern SI most effected town/city.NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: ↑Mon 04/02/2019 17:38Dunno about that. I can remember morris dancing in Oamaru one November and it was 33C
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If assume today's high at Ruakura was 29.0 (airport was 28.6 at 6pm), means average high for the last 7 days is 29.94! This run will extend to 9 days before it cools to a forecast 25 on Thursday.
Edit: Was eating dinner outside at 7:45pm, thinking gees, not cooling off yet. This is a Davis PWS just down the road. Wonder what caused the dewpoint to spike like that, that late. Other stations saw it to.
Edit: Was eating dinner outside at 7:45pm, thinking gees, not cooling off yet. This is a Davis PWS just down the road. Wonder what caused the dewpoint to spike like that, that late. Other stations saw it to.
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Re: General February weather
Certainly getting dry now. Pain that decent plume of moisture from the tropics this weekend is too far East to be of much use to anywhere except maybe East Cape to Gisborne now.
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Re: General February weather
Musselburgh, Dunedin bests it - the 30-year means for both Oamaru AWS and Oamaru Aero AWS show their average Tmaxes are higher than Musselburgh's all year round, and by about 0.9C in December and January.Richard wrote: ↑Mon 04/02/2019 20:58It is really, When it comes to that cooling onshore wind its by far the eastern SI most effected town/city.NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: ↑Mon 04/02/2019 17:38
Dunno about that. I can remember morris dancing in Oamaru one November and it was 33C