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Re: General January Weather

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Absolutely hosing down in Central Chch. Torrential just now
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Re: General January Weather

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Here comes the blue sky (photo looking south).
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Strange weather alright - Furious drizzle in Kaikoura - anticylonic gloomlike in chc and yet bright, breezy and sunny here with 22deg, but, clouds are a gathering to the south.
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Re: General January Weather

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Heavy rain, strong winds and 11°C in central Chch now. Quite a change from the last couple of days.
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The shower line that past through Canterbury fizzled out before reaching here, but I see its building again along the foothills and should produce some good rainfall this evening
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Very black towards the foothills now and quite dark. Rain imminent I think.
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Re: General January Weather

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Becoming cloudy overnight with light rain early this morning and later this morning.
Today's maxim was 17C.
Remaining cloudy this morning with winds from the NE, then the southerly change came through with a thunderstorm moving north around 1pm, with heavy rain with it and some wintry hail. Sadly I had to go to work at the time so missed the enjoyment of it all but here are some photos of the back of the storm taken from the road near the Barker's factory.
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Re: General January Weather

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Overnight rain of 11.8 mm. Last rain for at least a week as its looking very settled from today.
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Re: General January Weather

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Much of NZ not far from temperature average for this la nina January. Getting dry here again.
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Richard wrote:Overnight rain of 11.8 mm. Last rain for at least a week as its looking very settled from today.
How much rain is that for you Richard for the month?


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jamie wrote: Fri 29/01/2021 08:56
Richard wrote:Overnight rain of 11.8 mm. Last rain for at least a week as its looking very settled from today.
How much rain is that for you Richard for the month?


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Re: General January Weather

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It was absolutely torrential rain around 1am this morning, easily about 7-8mm in 10 minutes.
It was that wall to wall heavy stuff I was awaiting a clap of thunder.
Some areas with a small reprieve from what moisture was lost during the heat of earlier in the week, as we head into our first decent high in awhile.
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Plenty of fresh snow almost down to the plains on the mountains this morning. The schizophrenic weather continues

10mm for us out of yesterdays trough, giving us 25mm for the month
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spwill wrote: Fri 29/01/2021 08:45 Much of NZ not far from temperature average for this la nina January. Getting dry here again.
Yep, without the 60mm I got here on 2 Jan we'd only have 40mm the last 2 months.
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Razor wrote: Fri 29/01/2021 09:29 Plenty of fresh snow almost down to the plains on the mountains this morning.
That's the third lot of snow for the summer period
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Re: General January Weather

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Interesting sky to the south-east with a series of long narrow parallel bands of cloud in otherwise blue sky.

Currently sunny, little wind; 14.4°C at the moment, was 6°C around 6:30am.
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I see there is an easterly surge developing ...might be a few showers around the auckland area in the morning
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Partly cloudy this morning with light southerlies but clouding up this afternoon with some drizzle patches this evening.
Interesting weather for summer all right. 38.7C one day then 3 days later snow on Mt. Peel. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
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Re: General January Weather

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northland has ended up with nice rain from the easterly surge instead...
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On another note we have very notably dry air today. Dew point is only 9. Not often do we have a day where it is below 14 during summer. To be below 10 is super low for us.


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Re: General February Weather

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yeah only 8C DP here too...
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Re: General February Weather

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A coolish day across NZ again today. Dunedin airports high was just 15C but Milford Sound got to 21C.
Ardmore may have got the highest temp today with 25C.
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Re: General February Weather

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Yeah it felt weird being only 23C today on such a sunny light breeze day, during what is usually our warmest few weeks of the year
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Not much of a day. 18,9C for today.
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Re: General February Weather

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Nice to have summer temps back again today after so many cool days, reached 26deg
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