General April Weather
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General April Weather
Looks like a stormy start to the new month, West Coast will be lining up some more of that monsoon season
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Re: General April Weather
Keeping an eye on Monday night, trough due to sweep eastern SI cold upper air of -30c and good moisture too.
It is more at night but weve had thunder/hail set ups at night before during april, given warm sea temps etc.
Snow to around 600 to 700m too.
It is more at night but weve had thunder/hail set ups at night before during april, given warm sea temps etc.
Snow to around 600 to 700m too.
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Hope it's not an April FoolStorm Struck wrote: ↑Fri 29/03/2019 20:46 Keeping an eye on Monday night, trough due to sweep eastern SI cold upper air of -30c and good moisture too.
.....but I feel sorry for the West coasters with another bout of heavy rain forecasted, which might hinder the clearance of State highway 6 from the previous deluge.
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Re: General April Weather
Probably another boring month here, May is usually a good month for storms here.
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Re: General April Weather
Yes. Looks as though a few intense anticyclones are lined up to pass over us, at the moment.
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Re: General April Weather
Moderate thunder risk for tomorrow afternoon/evening here according to Metservice, hopefully not an April fools?
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Re: General April Weather
that includes auckland. i read that. whole north island is on low but from northland to coromandel is moderate. yes the highs are starting to stop. but there is an incomming high. but temperature for auckland isnt too hot
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Re: General April Weather
They are warning of 25+ mm/hr rain rates, hope they don't eventuate. It is the time of the year we seem prone & it's from the right direction to flood us.
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Um,sorry for offending. Outrage is too easy in this day and age. I used the words Monsoon Season as that's what my West Coast relatives refer to March and April as. Unlike their Mayor who bizarrely claimed NW rainstorms are uncommon at this time of year. Now theres someone to be outraged about
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No way that I'm offended, but I could certainly imagine the 'coasters' using a word like that though.
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From the 30-year averages (1981-2010): wettest & driest 3-month periods:Razor wrote: ↑Sun 31/03/2019 16:50Um,sorry for offending. Outrage is too easy in this day and age. I used the words Monsoon Season as that's what my West Coast relatives refer to March and April as. Unlike their Mayor who bizarrely claimed NW rainstorms are uncommon at this time of year. Now theres someone to be outraged about
Westport Aero Wettest Nov-Jan Driest Feb-Apr
Hokitika Aero Wettest Oct-Dec Driest Feb-Apr; same for other entries south to Ross
Franz Josef Wettest Oct-Dec Driest Jun-Aug
Milford Sound Wettest Nov-Jan Driest Jun-Aug
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NIWA also has a few nice Average Rainfall and Temp graphs for the West Coast here.RWood wrote: ↑Sun 31/03/2019 17:27 From the 30-year averages (1981-2010): wettest & driest 3-month periods:
Westport Aero Wettest Nov-Jan Driest Feb-Apr
Hokitika Aero Wettest Oct-Dec Driest Feb-Apr; same for other entries south to Ross
Franz Josef Wettest Oct-Dec Driest Jun-Aug
Milford Sound Wettest Nov-Jan Driest Jun-Aug
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Outrage...really?Razor wrote: ↑Sun 31/03/2019 16:50Um,sorry for offending. Outrage is too easy in this day and age. I used the words Monsoon Season as that's what my West Coast relatives refer to March and April as. Unlike their Mayor who bizarrely claimed NW rainstorms are uncommon at this time of year. Now theres someone to be outraged about
A warm day with the temp around 26 degrees
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Re: General April Weather
Warm moist air and cold surface conveyor belts creating a text book baroclinic leaf on tonights water vapour 8pm satellite snap shot. Nice moisture feed also in the mid levels will assist some fairly decent downpours in many areas of the NI behind the warm front tomorrow.
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Re: General April Weather
Yes, some downpours on the cards for the North Island later tomorrow. Instability is not great but there will be enough there for some cb formation with the front. Note also the subtropical jetstreak has its poleward exit over the upper North Island in the evening which suggests upper level divergence/lift.
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Re: General April Weather
Well I have a Bach on the coast and my folks live there and it's always been spring called the monsoon season, obvious really given that's when the roaring forties get going with more depressions coming through.
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Re: General April Weather
Awoken by great heavy raindrops plonking down, seems to be northerly, very mild and "tropical"-smelling.
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Some localised downpours around already - hosing down when I arrived at the CBD Ferry Terminal this morning. Just 1mm so far in Howick though
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Re: General April Weather
The westerlies generally wind up more by October or September. If you look at the wettest 3-month averages starting a bit on the "other side' of the main divide it's quite interesting:
Jun-Aug max for (eg) Hanmer, Tekapo, Pukaki;
Aug-Oct max for (eg) Collingwood, Takaka, Coleridge, Craigieburn;
Sep-Nov max for Murchison;
Oct-Dec for many West Coast locations as previously indicated, plus (eg) Arthurs Pass, Routeburn, Queenstown;
Nov-Jan for Mt Cook, Milford.
The variations across seasons in these places are not large, but the max & min pairs are pretty consistent regionally and also historically (looking at older periods as well as 1981-2010).
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Re: General April Weather
April 2010 was wet for the SW of the South Island, Milford Sound with 1424mm for the month.