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General March Weather

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Hoping we get more rain here than the last couple of months… :-k
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rainfall next wed looking patchy now. High pressure still continues to be the dominating factor .Fingers crossed this will change again for the better.Some good hail here last Sun at home[up to 15mm size ] in Tepuna. 2 ks either side there was nothing.Unfortunatly was in Auckland at the time .
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12Z EU looks the most agressive for convection over the North Island on Wednesday with surface dps 20C!
UKmet suggesting not much.
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the EU model has been flip flopping on that...currently it looks promising :)
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Wednesday looks the best day for showers with cooler drier air pushing in Thursday.
Have to see the how the moisture/convergence comes together on Wednesday, the latest GFS not looking good for around here
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Hmmm I’d need to go check more carefully but it looks like I broke my March max temp record by 2.1C. Old record of 27.2 on March 11 2019. Today I got 29.3. This year is giving so many hot days. It will be interesting to count up the number of days above 30.


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looks like it was a record for march today for me (27c)
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Nice day today with a light south to SE breeze.
Today's maximum was 21.8C, the hottest day day so far this autumn :rolleyes:
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jamie wrote:Hmmm I’d need to go check more carefully but it looks like I broke my March max temp record by 2.1C. Old record of 27.2 on March 11 2019. Today I got 29.3. This year is giving so many hot days. It will be interesting to count up the number of days above 30.


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On March 11 2013 Ruakura had 32.6. Suspect you should have got over 30 that day?

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Multiple models are producing an autumnal upper trough of polar origins that cuts off and becomes an upper tropospheric cyclonic vortex over the NI in 8 to 10 days. This will break the ridge and weather pattern if it verifies allowing a surface cut off low to develop.
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Yes please
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Warm day with 29.8deg, another warm again tomorrow before another cool down.
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After the cloud cleared away this morning, it got up to 25.7C with hardly any wind.
Partly cloudy this afternoon but clearing away later this afternoon and fine this evening.
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cbm wrote:
jamie wrote:Hmmm I’d need to go check more carefully but it looks like I broke my March max temp record by 2.1C. Old record of 27.2 on March 11 2019. Today I got 29.3. This year is giving so many hot days. It will be interesting to count up the number of days above 30.


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On March 11 2013 Ruakura had 32.6. Suspect you should have got over 30 that day?

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Ah yes you are right. I recorded 29.6 that day. I had a suspicion that previous record of mine seemed too low. Must be a bug on my records chart for March.


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9 days above 30 for the summer for me. Some years we don’t even reach 30 so that’s a very high number for us. 24 days above 28. December recorded none of these. So that’s just for Jan Feb.


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jamie wrote: Tue 03/03/2020 05:20 9 days above 30 for the summer for me.


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Had a look for here and we had 12 days, the early 2000's would have seen more than 12
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Akld Aero's 27.9C on Sunday was its 3rd highst March temp after 29.8C in 1999 and 28.0C in 2015 since records began there in 1963.
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Some welcome widespread showers for the upper NI tomorrow :D , eastern Waikato and BOP look best placed for some heavy showers possible thunder.
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Plenty of moisture ahead and behind the trough so even thursday could be wet. Winds will stay N to E for a while.Heavy showers already building around Whangarei. Happy days !!!
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2.9 mm from last nights front .Odd light shower this morning with 12.9C .Awaiting another front due this afternoon Need rain as water tank almost empty after three weeks of dryish weather after the rain event at the beginning of February.
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Dry southerly through now with low cloud moving in.
Boring weather coming up. o_O
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looks to be a low next week for the upper north island so we could get more rain.
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tornado wrote: Tue 03/03/2020 20:09 looks to be a low next week for the upper north island so we could get more rain.
With climate change, I think it will be a feast or famine situation with the weather to come.
No rain for Northland but in a few months time, there will be flooding up there with Keao recording another record rainfall.
The West Coast will dry out, except for the one or TC's that will likely to come down in the Tasman sea from the tropics and here in Canterbury we will have a mild winter with the forecast possibility of a La Nina forming. :smile:
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Humid as run tonight at Hagley, 21C and 85% humidity! Sounds like the change is not far off. Around teatime there were some reasonable showers and a rainbow to the east of town.
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a warm night here, nearly 22c at 9pm, dewpoint nearly 20c
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