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Some heavy showers around the Timaru area. might go and investigate.

Richard wrote: ↑Wed 18/11/2020 14:39 Rains getting quite heavy here now.
What is interesting is how all the showers around Canterbury are drifting in different directions. One heavy one south of Timaru

Dry all day in Christchurch. Back to that pattern already huh?

I see the nelson area has been getting some significant thunderstorms today

i see there has been thunderstorms in the western north island. today taranaki,king contry,whanganui regions. i see nelson had one too. they were predicted there though.

Nothing much happening down here, sadly. just overcast skies and the easterly sending in low cloud. A bit of rain here this afternoon but nothing as what was on the Rakaia radar this afternoon.

Had 8mm so far today, all very handy.

6.9mm all up for today from today's rainfall movement over South Canterbury for today.
The wind from the NE was quite persistent but eased away this evening.
Today's maximum was 20.5C when the sun pooped out for a short instance around noon.
Becoming rather overcast this evening with it drizzling and much cooler.

Next week's low at this stage looks good.

Nev wrote: ↑Tue 17/11/2020 20:01 ^ To top it off, MS says in its video this morning re Chch that 'we will have qualified for our first heat-wave of the summer'?
Our second heat-wave of spring maybe?

Make that at least 3 'heat-waves' late last month, including Hamilton Aero, Gisborne Aero and Wairoa...

0.4mm in Christchurch yesterday and 1mm so far today even though MS has/had forecast some more showers.

Were there many deaths caused by the "heatwave"?

Drizzle/light rain overnight with 4.7mm for today, especially overnight/early morning.
A generally cloudy day with light winds from betwixt south and east.
Today's maximum was 17.1C.

Some high energy weather systems/days incoming for the next week with plenty of instability around the country. Good chances for convective showers (and possibly thunderstorm risk) for different parts of Canterbury today, tomorrow, and Monday.,

TonyT wrote: ↑Fri 20/11/2020 11:37 Some high energy weather systems/days incoming for the next week with plenty of instability around the country. Good chances for convective showers (and possibly thunderstorm risk) for different parts of Canterbury today, tomorrow, and Monday.,

yes, Monday is looking good especially.

Richard wrote: ↑Fri 20/11/2020 12:01

TonyT wrote: ↑Fri 20/11/2020 11:37 Some high energy weather systems/days incoming for the next week with plenty of instability around the country. Good chances for convective showers (and possibly thunderstorm risk) for different parts of Canterbury today, tomorrow, and Monday.,

yes, Monday is looking good especially.

I'm heading for Molesworth tonight and then a wee 85km run back to Hanmer tomorrow. Hoping the forecast winds let us have a decent sleep tonight in the tents!

That's a good run Razor, hard work and dusty but awesome fun (*4-person relay 3 years ago). Best of luck.

Seeing some cold upper air Monday, but not much moisture at the Canterbury coast.

Tomorrow evening has a small chance of thunder with a southerly flick. Surface moisture the issue though. But there are some favourable numbers.

A brief heavy shower passing over atm, sadly no electrical discharge from this front.

Drove through the edge of that heavy rain that's heading through North Canterbury, just a little earlier on the way back to Chch. Air had a very humid, thundery feel to it so won't be surprised if it sparks up further north.

A mainly cloudy and humid feeling sort of day with light winds from the easterly quarter.
Lots of NW looking lenticular forms and the odd filling with some light spits of rain falling, moving from the SW.
Today's maximum being 24.4C.

Looks like some decent WSW wind for Southland and east Otago today! Models putting out severe numbers.

NZstorm wrote: ↑Sat 21/11/2020 07:35 Looks like some decent WSW wind for Southland and east Otago today! Models putting out severe numbers.

77 knots at South Port Bluff
https://southport.co.nz/facilities-and- ... s#dataView

EC's water vapour 300 hPa simulation showing a classic cold core mid latitude cyclone and possible sting jet signature next Tuesday in the Tasman. Model is projecting surface pressure around 976 hPa when the polar injection wraps into the west side of the warm moist jet.

Reasonable norwester on top of Mt Pleasant this morning, looks to turn to a fairly strong SW tonight. See if it can give those showers any extra oomph tonight.

Been a bright and sunny, warm day so far here in Geraldine but sadly the westerly has picked reducing humidity levels.

Few large drops of rain here now, but it looks to be mostly over the peninsula.