General April Weather

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

We had some rain overnight and this morning before it become a fine and sunny day with light winds, mostly from the south or SE.
Today's maximum was 17.2C. Some more overthrow rain after 10pm.

[Awhituobs]

this north tasman system is developing nicely on the Sat image
I think the models have not captured it very well (they did initially), due to missing data from areoplanes flying across the tasman...?

[tornado]

i see some showers are coming in this afternoon. a chance of rain tommorow. but ii doupt it may come to much. a big ridge (not that strong though) is coming in and drying things out again.

[Richard]

Managed to pick up 5mm of spill over rain over night

[Awhituobs]

woa that is a narrow band of rain

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[NZstorm]

No sunshine today in Auckland but I see the high still managed to get to 22C.
2mm in Grey Lynn with the late day precip.

[Awhituobs]

gosh, article in the news that Auckland on track for a 1 in 1000 year drought!

[David]

gosh, article in the news that Auckland on track for a 1 in 1000 year drought!

Saw that article on newshub, and there's no attribution to where that figure came from? Either way, without a thousand years of rain data how can they really tell. I suspect we'll see similar droughts within less than 100 years from now, especially with climate change...

[tornado]

i saw that article looks like drought continues after tomorrow. Hopefully rain can return after next week. i enjoyed this week had 0.67 of light rain today here. i enjoyed the rain/showers this week. even had a intense downpour with thunder/lightning early yesterday morning

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Another nice sunny day here with NW winds. You wouldn't think that it was low pressure and instead an anticyclone was overhead , except for the NW wind. Some overthrow rain delivered another 0.9mm of rain overnight but it quickly cleared away and become a fine and sunny day. Today's maximum was 18C. Nice calm evening but cooling down.

[Awhituobs]

the heavy rain in the far north with the clash of the air masses has developed...but only clipping the far north
it might get a boost to drift further south with the second jet stream wave from the north tasman in as many days

[tornado]

i see the high pressure are incresing again. blocking out the lows. even though we are in drought. the daily showers last week helped my lawns to turn greener.

[Thunder081]

Hey Thunder
The Moa Point video was one I took on a quick bike ride just before lunchtime to coincide with the high tide.
It has to be one of the bigger swells I have seen in Wellington not associated with severe gale force winds. The period of the swell was incredible with massive gaps between the waves. Even right on high tide, one of the larger sets I saw broke completely across the harbour entrance between Barrett Reef and Pencarrow Head (no ships were in the channel at the time). The same was happening in Lyall Bay, with waves breaking one side to the other of the bay out beyond the end of the airport.

There was a rather impressive right hander peeling off from Palmer Head around into Breaker bay!

Yeah this video shows all the sets of waves coming in
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wgtnsr/ ... 493708694/

I think Waitangi 2002 is still the biggest from an offshore storm in the last 20 years but there isn't much photos of that event just a few

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Niwa Article on 2002 event
Also here's another video with some really really good footage
https://vimeo.com/408655172

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Another fine and pleasant day with a light NE.
Today's maximum was 17.3C.

[tornado]

has anyone in auckland seen any fog lately? there has been reports on twitter but no fog reports from here? i havnt seen any fog. just cloud.

[Awhituobs]

was heaps of fog here
but that has lifted to low cloud and upper deck of thick high cloud now
I see the far north still getting rain

[RODALCO]

Really cool frontline between blue skies and grey weather front
Photo taken from Trig Rd overbridge

[RODALCO]

Don't know why the picture went in sideways ?

[Awhituobs]

Jet stream edge

[Chris W]

Pretty settled around Chch at the moment, cooling off a little after the weekend but a fairly calm pattern of high teens in the day and colder at night. Though this side of the hills I woke to a pleasant 8C this morning rather than the frost under the inversion the other side!

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

After a cool start, another fine and sunny day with NE winds becoming moderate this afternoon, but becoming calm this evening.
Today's maximum was 17.4C.
Here's a couple of photos I took of some interesting billowy cloud forms taken looking towards the SW later this afternoon.
They panned out to become a sort of K/H cloud bits as they moved further away to the NE.

[Richard]

Ended up being a lovely autumn day with a light NW wind and 21deg max, few more of these day please to keep the vitamin D at there max.

[tornado]

today was the sunniest day in auckland for over a week. chance of a few showers tommorow.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Another fine day with some scattered cloud and a light southerly moving across twice today.
Nice mackerel sky later this afternoon.
Today's maximum was 15.9C.

[tornado]

considering we are in drought. our next chance for real rain is at the start of may. models showing a low coming in.

I see the far north is about to get another lot of rain. which will miss us. metservice has drizzle forecasted for us though.