General August Weather

[Razor]

10 Day MS forecast now completely devoid of any rain once we get clear of the odd shower overnight tonight

Soils are so incredibly dry, heres hoping for a game changer through spring

230mm YTD. June was ok but pretty much every other month has been dry dry dry with the very odd blip

[spwill]

Nothing here yet but action just to the west.

[Cyclone Tracy]

Distant thunder heard to my SW.

[NZstorm]

Heavy rain/hail here.

[David]

Distant thunder heard to my SW.

Thought I heard some noises but was very distant, hard to tell with all the construction in the area these days

[tornado]

Heaps of lightning and thunder here. Good thunderstorm

[mikestormchaser]

the SW flick later this afternoon created some weak instability around. Esp inland with nice CU forms. Probably over TC area aswel.and some castalanus altocumulus over the city.
A sure sign of some spring like atmosphere. Nice to see!
High of 16C this afternoon

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Nothing much like that down here today. A fine sunny day with some high cloud but with a light SE breeze this afternoon.
Today's maximum was 14.7C.
Came onto rain this evening. 1.8mm to 10pm.

[Richard]

After yesterdays high of 17.3 deg today will be a return back to winter. 2mm of rain overnight

[David]

Small hail mixed into some of these showers this morning

[Awhituobs]

yes hail showers here too and some good claps of thunder

[Awhituobs]

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picy

[spwill]

The coldest low level air flow of the Winter is showing up in the models for the eastern South Island around Thursday.

[Chris W]

GFS today brings Tuesday’s low and southerly together a little more, slightly shy of moisture for the South Island so it will be interesting to see if the low comes any further west or south in the next couple of days’ worth of model runs. Still looks wet for the North Island.

[tornado]

Met service has moderate risk of heavy rain for Tuesday. Hope that happens

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

After a good frost this morning , a pleasant fine day eventuated.
A mild 17C was recorded here, which made ideal conditions for a walk through Talbot forest this afternoon.

[Awhituobs]

I see this next southerly cold snap is only going to bring limited moisture to eastern SI
and not the rain that is needed
?
and then back to a big high pressure and then again another tasman low and northerlies...so some big swings
westerly and NW/SW change winds are usually more common than they have been at this time of year

[spwill]

We need a good soaking as water storage levels are still low for Auckland.
The other side of the Tasman has been getting good rain from the incoming low, the latest event there has delivered over 300mm for parts of the NSW South Coast.

[Chris W]

Just a dry but cold change for us down here in the end, bring on spring.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Another lovely fine and rather mild day with it getting up to 18.7C. Westerly winds.
Good day to help the new neighbour clean up his back yard.

[Bradley]

Latest GFS has now come into line with what EC has been predicting for a number of days now with a fairly dry but very cold SW change overnight Thursday into Friday for Canterbury, 850hpa temps of -7C are being predicted for midday Friday so it will be the coldest airmass of the year so far. GFS has an even colder SW change of Monday with -8C predicted but at the moment EC wants nothing to do with it...

[Richard]

Could Friday bring the first snow here in 5 years, long over due.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Frosty this morning, but cloudy conditions this morning before clearing away and becoming a blue dome day.
A bit cooler than it was in the recent few days, despite the bright sunshine.
Today's maximum was 13.9C.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Another frost this morning but it clouded up during the morning with stratus cloud moving across from the south.
Some scatted drizzle but nothing recorded down here.
Today's maximum was 10.7C.

[spwill]

A couple of cold mornings showing up for Auckland, Saturday and Sunday. My location is inland and low lying so we may see some frost here, frost count for the year here so far is 2 but no frost damage to soft plants.