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General April Weather

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Perhaps thundery showers to start April for parts of the North Island on Thursday. Rain for Canterbury.

Easter weather looking okay however there is a trough modelled to move up the country on Good Friday.
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Polar vortex flexing, westerlies should get involved at least in the first couple of weeks and maybe some cold SW/S interspersed. My stratospheric-based reckons as the early vortex has been nudged towards us due to a minor warming event. It pulls away later (current GFS modelling) but impacts of that affect May?
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Don't get fooled by the weather tomorrow :crazy: :wave: :lol:
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Started the month with a massive thunderstorm here in the wee small hours. Large hail, 68mm of rain and a lot of loud thunder booming around the Port Hills for about 6 hours! I think it will clear by lunchtime
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Re: General April Weather

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Razor wrote: Thu 01/04/2021 09:31 Started the month with a massive thunderstorm here in the wee small hours. Large hail, 68mm of rain and a lot of loud thunder booming around the Port Hills for about 6 hours! I think it will clear by lunchtime
And it's really cold - never seen snow on the Port Hills so early in the year. Mind you, strange events tend to happen on this day.
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tich wrote: Thu 01/04/2021 09:52
Razor wrote: Thu 01/04/2021 09:31 Started the month with a massive thunderstorm here in the wee small hours. Large hail, 68mm of rain and a lot of loud thunder booming around the Port Hills for about 6 hours! I think it will clear by lunchtime
And it's really cold - never seen snow on the Port Hills so early in the year. Mind you, strange events tend to happen on this day.
Been up to the Takahe for a gander, its not snow its just massive hail accumulations.
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As predicted its all cleared up by lunchtime
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are you guys above lying? [-X
Bob Crowder would be on the phone if this did happen [-X
....anyway, not expecting much from the southerly change tomorrow. See what happens.
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Becoming a blue dome day this afternoon.
Today' maximum was 18.2C.
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This was around 5.30pm not subject to any April 1st AM antics ;-)

Sadly it didn't do a lot where I was (Fraser Cove) as it went over. Did hear reports of funnel clouds being reported in Papamoa earlier & Te Puna later from it. Some great CG's observed in the distance and loud thunder considering the distance (delay over 40 secs).
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A nice outflow structure there tgsnoopy.

The whole setup has been a flop for Auckland over a number days, not even a rumble heard, but 21mm recorded here this week. Seems to have greened up the lawn atleast!
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Plenty of heavy showers on the drive north yesterday, blue dome here in Russell today.
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A sharpe SW change coming, can see it nicely on windy satellite! Rain band will be pushing through Canterbury soon.
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Rain becoming heavier here. Overcast, very dull.
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Rain at home, great to see! Nice to have a real front coming through again, it's been a while.
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1 whole millimeter. And shows gone through. Epic
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that's the best looking tropical jet stream seen for a while , sure sign the next MJO is here
https://www.metservice.com/maps-radar/s ... a-infrared

no wonder the models have a low developing in the southern coral sea and then moving into the north tasman
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Grey overcast day today with the traditional fresh Southerly change moving through this morning. 5.5mm of rain for today.
Only 14C for today before the southerly change with the temperature hovering around between 10C and 12C for much of the afternoon.
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Yesterday was abit pitaful in the end just 2mm here, I think when you have such a strong upper jet but no strong winds to match it close to the surface it struggles to get that precipitation to the ground.
Even though the radar images suggest otherwise, it seems to end up being much lighter.
Is anyone else abit confused with the inconsistancy on a daily basis of the models lately? It seems to be flip flopping quite abit lately.
For example yesterdays runs in the morning showed a low for the south island towards the end of next week , then the evening runs showed nothing at all. But now we have the low potential again for the south island 🤔.
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Latest UK 0204 12z run producing an energetic warm core subtropical cyclone (low 970's hpa) pushing into the Tasman @ 168 hours (next Saturday). If it verifies, it would be a dangerous weather system if a mid latitude upper trough syncs it's presence into the Tasman around NZ.
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Fine day with some high cloud this afternoon and light NE winds.
today's maximum was 18.7C.
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woa, the UKmet has gone balistic on that tasman low :)
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Awhituobs wrote:woa, the UKmet has gone balistic on that tasman low :)
Where is the best place to see ukmet model? I always got it on MetService 5 day map but at he moment they have that map set to a different model.


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Anyone know the record April temp for Timaru? Metservice currently showing 29.4c
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