General July Weather

[Awhituobs]

wind suddenly increased here ....48 knot gusts with a squally shower...its starting!
was one of the more dramatic sudden increases in wind I have seen...was like bang
58 knots at the signal station I see too
was a flash of lightning too
make that 53 knots (98kmh) here now ...whats tomorrow gonna bring!

[Brassnz]

@Awhituobs 107mm mtd here, about 1km from Lower Nihotupu Dam

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

It was a lovely mild sunny day but with high cloud at times and rain-band along the Alps with a north to NW blowing for much of the day.
Today's maximum was 18C.

[David]

7.5C this morning, coolest it's been in 10 days. Picked up 3mm of showers overnight.

[Richard]

Only received 35.6mm mtd, starting to look like that will be pretty much it for July.
No snow this winter either so far, got that feeling it going to be 5 winters in a row with out even slight skiff on the ground, for an area that always had snow every winter too.

[tornado]

some heavy falls last night. 13mm. hopefully soem thunder today. black as out there at the moment.

[Awhituobs]

looks like the strongest SW wind is in this part?

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[tornado]

i heard some thunder before yay. some heavy falls in these showers man. is that a low centre on the radar?

[Awhituobs]

the latest rain radar runs do hint at a low center developing
which will ramp up the SW wind as that passes to the south of Auckland

[tornado]

yeah things are gonna get intresting. will be some damage around for sure. if the wind gales happens.
i see high pressure returns this weekend. good for the northland clean ups.

[tornado]

Squally shower now. actually a little intense.

[Awhituobs]

the wind is increasing here
not sure if its going to get to severe gale

[David]

I see Auckland Airport has gusts to 93 km/h currently

[mattyj46]

Metservice going with potential snow for Invercargill tomorrow

"Showers, some heavy, possibly falling as snow at times. Squally thunderstorms and hail possible in the afternoon. Strong westerlies."

[spwill]

The first low level snow of the season for the south.

Not particularly windy here this morning but have a couple of gusty heavy showers come through. Auckland weather looks cool for the next 5 or 6 days.

[tornado]

had some intense squalls this morning. a little bit of thunder,lightning. prop ic/cc. windy here.

[Cyclone Tracy]

Gusting around 50 km/h locally, which is fairly breezy for my location.

Surge of new polar air is now moving through Macquarie Island on it's way to Southland. Sea level snow mounting up in the last 30 minutes. The coldest of the polar showery air should arrive around Invercargill from 2am tomorrow morning.

[Nev]

Very breezy here atm. I see Whangaparaoa was sitting on gusts of 107 km/h around 2pm.

[Awhituobs]

https://youtu.be/kPWKMLvV__k

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Some rain here overnight but clearing away during the morning to become fine and sunny with a light west to SW breeze blowing.
2mm for today with a Maximum of 11.5C for today.

[spwill]

Some cold looking Cbs crossing the deep south at the moment.

[Awhituobs]

looks like a prolonged period of NE winds coming
very la nina like

[Awhituobs]

I see reports of snow to low levels in the Gore Area coming in (i.e on the hills at least)

[tornado]

still windy this morning. yes la nina is here i say. there was prediction of a poor thunder season and that has happened.

[spwill]

looks like a prolonged period of NE winds coming
very la nina like

Niwa quite strongly favoured average to below average rainfall for the Winter period over Northern NZ.