General April Weather

[cbm]

Got to 17.1 by 9:20am with crystal clear skies and no wind. Some cloud must have kept the ground warm overnight then cleared just on dawn.

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[Awhituobs]

looking forward to some action weather next sunday
however this settled weather is great for the lockdown too (walks, waiting in que etc)

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

A rather cool day despite weak sunshine through increasing high cloud and developing NW Arch.
Hardly any wind.
Today's maximum was 14.2C.

[Chris Raine]

First front through between 0400-0900 this morning .Heavy convective rain . .Can see next front due later today currently mid Tasman Cb's contained within it.

[Razor]

24 degrees here two days running. Yet another dry week ahead

[Chris W]

Wandered up to the summit road late morning, sat with the NW in my face for ages just watching the city and the clouds - the lower level cumulus waves and also some standing waves in the high level cloud as well.

Still warm and NW, but looks like the SW change is due soon.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

The southerly has come through Geraldine with some interesting clouds and a few spits of rain.

[Orion]

Southerly bustling through Ashburton for the past few minutes, temp. falling away, now 15.1°C

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Had a long rumble of thunder to the north of here at 4.49pm.
Just one, so far.
Another much more further away to the NE about 5.30pm. Nothing on the Blitz, so must of been in the cloud.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Photos for today looking to the west prior to the southerly change around 4pm.

[tornado]

Had a long rumble of thunder to the north of here at 4.49pm.
Just one, so far.
Another much more further away to the NE about 5.30pm. Nothing on the Blitz, so must of been in the cloud.

Lucky you. at least you had some thunder. noticed metservice had a low risk out. perhaps a chance coming up,up here in the north this coming weekend as a low comes in.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

It was an interesting day here weatherwize , with a rather NW sky early this morning, thickening to a layer that brought overthrow rain to the north of here but nothing here apart from a few spits. Mild with it being 13C around 8am, then with the high cloud layer moving off to the NE, it became quite warm in the sun with it getting up to 20.2C. Light winds from the SE.
From mid afternoon cloud again thickening to the west and lower cloud forming as another cooler southerly event went through which delivered a few random rumbles of thunder possibly from some lightning within the cloud, mainly to the north of Geraldine. A few spits of rain here but there was more of a substantial shower, here this evening. The southerly did freshen for a while around 5pm, but basically there wasn't much wind of any note.

[tich]

One very brief light shower early afternoon in Akaroa, but that's all.

[Chris Raine]

Second front delivered thunderstorm at 0045 hours Tuesday morning accompanied by heavy rain for about 30 minutes and SW squalls

[Razor]

Looks like we shall finish April here in our hood somewhere close to slightly above average mean temp, and with 7.1mm of rain for the month.

[Awhituobs]

looks like usefull rain for canty with this next system

[spwill]

A cold sytem crossing NZ next week. The flow looks a bit too southwest/southerly with the coldest upper air for good thunder chances here but it is a bit early to be looking at thunder chances.
Looks like fosts mid next week for those parts of NZ that get frost this time of year.

[Chris W]

Chilly night tonight under the incoming ridge, wouldn't bet against a frost the other side of the hills.

GFS is trending less cold for the surface low next week, and indicates a more positive SAM after that as are the BOM.

[TonyT]

...a more positive SAM after that as are the BOM.

Not much westerly in the next six weeks, plenty of High/Low/High/Low scenarios.

[NZstorm]

Not much westerly in the next six weeks, plenty of High/Low/High/Low scenarios.

Could be good for snow.

[tornado]

Models are also starting to show a sub tropical low from the north for the end of next week. too far out.

[TonyT]

Not much westerly in the next six weeks, plenty of High/Low/High/Low scenarios.

Could be good for snow.

Last week of May looks to have the potential for a significant South Island snow event and generally very cold air over the country. (reference to levels deliberately left out).

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Totally fine and sunny day with it getting up to 17.5C.
Nice day for the first day out of Lockjaw.

[TonyT]

Nice day for the first day out of Lockjaw.

You keep saying that pun over and over. Its becoming very tetanus.

[Richard]

Oh good one Tony.

Another lovely day coming up, yesterday reached 20deg should be about the same today hopefully.