General March Weather

[Chris W]

You going to be watching the Waiho Chris?

Clag cleared early turning into a lovely autumn day, reached 23.6 making for a great day in the garden.

I'd like to be, but I meant it will be interesting to see how high it gets. I saw some incredible photos a few years ago on Stuff.

[tornado]

hot day in auckland foggy morning. 27 degrees celcius

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

hot day in auckland foggy morning. 27 degrees celcius

Our aeroplane flight back to Timaru was delayed because of foggy conditions in Auckland and Hamilton.

[tornado]

reports of flights cancelled due to fog

[NZstorm]

Some decent PWS rainfall totals this morning on Auckland's North Shore from early morning shower activity.
Not sure of their accuracy but one PWS recorded 30mm in an hour to 3am. Not a drop of rain here.
A convergence zone has been slowly moving westward across the region.

[cbm]

Yesterday was a thick and very extensive fog for March. Would have thought same atmospheric conditions would result in repeat today but no, fine and clear this morning. Some subtle factors, hard to forecast, must make the difference.

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[tornado]

very dark clouds. rainbows seen too

[David]

Had to go up on the roof again to lubricate the anemometer shaft, not spinning despite 5-10kph wind speed. Had a lot of trouble with these Davis anemometers - first one I had kept getting stuck magnetic reed switch and this one becomes physically stiff all the time

[jamie]

Had to go up on the roof again to lubricate the anemometer shaft, not spinning despite 5-10kph wind speed. Had a lot of trouble with these Davis anemometers - first one I had kept getting stuck magnetic reed switch and this one becomes physically stiff all the time

Yea mine has wind spike readings under certain conditions but very rare. It chews the batteries tho. I notice it’s only working during the day when the sun is shining.

Maintaining these stations is a real drag on time and money.


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[Chris Raine]

I have a WS 1081 Tesa weather station which other than replacing the transmitter in January this year the outdoor unit is now 11 years old. The desktop unit has been replaced through to align to the new transmitter. The station has survived two x tropical cyclones Fehi and Gita when I lived on the West Coast.Winds speeds gusted to 56knots Was the Runanga station near Greymouth

[Razor]

Just popped over 30 degrees here, great late March conditions

[Orion]

NW wind has strengthened a little here over the past half-hour or so; can see a few spots of rain on a NW-facing window.

[snowykiwi]

We're under the northwest arch now in Methven where it is getting darker and a few spots of rain falling.

[Chris Raine]

Little rain in Thornbury today .A few spits at midday ,Dense medium cloud overcast and very dark to west .Noticed a bit of activity on Blizortung over Fiordland as forecasted, Warm today got to 27.3C

[Orion]

21.2°C indoors, 22.7°C outdoors at present;
northerly wind, sounds a bit rackety, hissing through shrubs etc. (still dark outside)

[Razor]

Minimum of 20.5 here last night

[Richard]

Yes warm night alright for this time of year, 21 deg the low here

[David]

Nights have been fairly warm up here too... 19C min last night

[tornado]

late winter i guss due to a late summer.

[spwill]

GFS is pointing to a slow moving front/trough for the upper North Island Thursday- Saturday, a few heavy showers in the mix.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

A rather close day here, probably because of the very moist conditions on the West Coast.
Both humidities and DP up.
Warm tempertures as well.
Light winds between east and south.

[NZstorm]

GFS is pointing to a slow moving front/trough for the upper North Island Thursday- Saturday, a few heavy showers in the mix.

Getting a convection signal off the gfs and UKmet for tomorrow but not the EU.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

One or 2 Cu's going up around the Mt.Peel/4 Peaks area but, at the moment, nothing much to "wet your pants" over.
Edit: A weak but obvious wall cloud now moving north along the coast as the cooler and breezy southerly change with it's associated low cloud/stratus moves in.

[Thunder081]

Watching the front move into Levin

[Orion]

Southerly wind change bustling through Ashburton in the past few minutes, quite gusty at times.