General January Weather

[Chris W]

Spent some unplanned extra time up at the Wharfedale Track car park yesterday, the wind was rocking the car pretty well at times! Came out nice and sunny early arvo after a cloudy morning.

[spwill]

Auckland weather turns humid today with dps around 17C, a mostly sunny week ahead after today. A weak front crossing today, models picked the weak front a week ago.

[Awhituobs]

February looks like a hot and humid NE winds returning for sure...
and the tropics are going to become active... tropical cyclones are back...maybe one will come this way...future ball gazing

[TonyT]

February looks like a hot and humid NE winds returning for sure...
and the tropics are going to become active... tropical cyclones are back...maybe one will come this way...future ball gazing

It all kicks off first few days of Feb. I suspect the Feb general weather thread will be a long one...

[Awhituobs]

latest ECMWF model run has a low from north moving south quickly over NZ for the 1st Feb
i wonder how long that idea will stick

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

I see Metservice have upped the forecast high on Tuesday for Christchurch from 33 to 35 degrees. Get the feeling somewhere isolated will see 37 or 38 degrees in Canterbury.

Would that be at NIWA's Riccarton site?

[NZstorm]

Below average temps for Auckland last few days.

Looks like we should get a temperature spike from Wednesday to Friday.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

This WE weather has been similar over the past 2 days. Scattered high cloud with a southerly change in the afternoon.
Maximum temperature of around 26C for both days.

[jamie]

latest ECMWF model run has a low from north moving south quickly over NZ for the 1st Feb
i wonder how long that idea will stick

EC has buttoned off a bit on it this morning but last nights run had it when I got up at 5am. Now I see the GFS has now floated the idea.


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[Chris W]

Feeling warm under the sun in Amberley, up around 26-27C at the moment with little wind. Tomorrow will be a water-after-work day!

Thunder/hail risk Southland-Canterbury on Thursday by the looks.

[Razor]

Fire in the hills above eastern Christchurch. Can see the smoke from town. Stamp that out please!

[JP.]

Fire in the hills above eastern Christchurch. Can see the smoke from town. Stamp that out please!

A fire at Pines beach as well now being reported, has destroyed 2 sheds. I really dread what tomorrow will bring

[Chris W]

30C now in Amberley as per my car's thermometer at 5:15pm.

[Richard]

As per normal when its NW, its been cooler here than down country today, 24deg, but wind, two days now of strong NW..

[NZstorm]

Two warmest towns today on the airports were Tauranga 31C and Blenheim 32C.

Invercargill had a high of 16C with precip.

[Chris W]

In Kaiapoi now and there's s lot of smoke in the direction of the forest, gathering the fire is contained but not controlled according to RNZ. It's 29C and fairly windy.

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[Flutterbye]

Two warmest towns today on the airports were Tauranga 31C and Blenheim 32C.

Invercargill had a high of 16C with precip.

Cool westerly but perfect for sanding windows otherwise, a dry day!

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Warm day here with it peaking out at 29.4C.
Westerly winds turning more southerly from 4pm, with it cooling down and low cloud moving in from this evening.
Interesting to see how much of a scorcher the next 2 days will bring with all that publicity from the media from MS.

[melja]

Why have this on the Christchurch MS page if it's so horribly wrong (NZ fire service fire danger is moderate)

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[Razor]

GFS has jumped on board with possibility of a tropical visitor next week. Wait and see...

[Razor]

I took the liberty of moving the high temps forecast to a new thread for future reference

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

A fine warm day here with light winds turning NW in the afternoon.
Today's maximum was only 38.7C when a bit of a NW turned up this afternoon.

[jamie]

Temp is 29.8 with a dp of 21.7 so it sure feels hot.


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[David]

Almost 28 this afternoon with dp just above 20, easily one of the warmest of summer to date

[Storm Struck]

It's worth noting a low to possibly moderate risk of storms tomorrow afternoon through mid inland Canterbury northwards, maybe out on the plains too.
Possibly simular to last Thursday actually but with more of a shift inland later on.
I initially thought it would be too warm for storms but upper air is around - 24c which is good enough in mid summer, tot,s running in at 55 as well for a time.
Moderately strong upper jet so 10-15mm hail.
But abit more moisture on the latest runs so should be a good dollop of rain for many areas after this heat.