General November Weather

[David]

Overnight min of 19.6C here with an additional 10mm rain. I can’t say for sure but that must be one of the warmest November nights on record?

[Nev]

Overnight min of 19.6C here with an additional 10mm rain. I can’t say for sure but that must be one of the warmest November nights on record?

Could well be. Similar overnight temps at Auckland Aero and its lowest Tmin since 9am yesterday looks to be 18.7C at 9am yesterday, which beats its highest recorded Nov Tmin of 18.4C for the 24 hrs to 9am on Nov 30, 2001 from records since 1966.

19mm here yesterday, plus another 8mm of misty light rain so far today…

[Richard]

10.00am and the first signs of development starting along the foot hills.

[spwill]

Napier on 30C with a dewpoint of 18C

[Chris Raine]

21.4mm of rain last 24 hours.at Thornbury
The Oamaru town rain gauge is broken and won't be fixed for another week according to Met Service .The years records are now lost

[Awhituobs]

we had the sun out for like 5 minutes...gone again, back to low cloud and mist

[Richard]

Hearing thunder now to the NW

[David]

Brighter here now with 24C and dew point close to 22

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Just drizzly old clagg here today

[mikestormchaser]

Just drizzly old clagg here today

Alot of cloud cover and not alot of instability at all today John. Convergence foothills but that was it.

Was the thunder in the foothills today Richard?

[Richard]

Just drizzly old clagg here today

Was the thunder in the foothills today Richard?

Yep, about half doz rumbles, too far away to get excited about though. Did get a very brief cloud burst from one of the showers

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Just drizzly old clagg here today

Alot of cloud cover and not alot of instability at all today John. Convergence foothills but that was it.

I don't know why MS forecasted thunderstorms for Canterbury yesterday for today?
Did they expect low cloud and clagg to clear and create instability as we are under low surface hPa readings at the moment?
I think they do tend to over-forecast thunderstorms or 'thundery "showers in some of their forecasts, mind you there was some activity around NW regions of the South Island today and the sound of thunder reported by Richard in the posting above.

[03Stormchaser]

Alot of cloud cover and not alot of instability at all today John. Convergence foothills but that was it.

I don't know why MS forecasted thunderstorms for Canterbury yesterday for today?
Did they expect low cloud and clagg to clear and create instability as we are under low surface hPa readings at the moment?
I think they do tend to over-forecast thunderstorms or 'thundery "showers in some of their forecasts, mind you there was some activity around NW regions of the South Island today and the sound of thunder reported by Richard in the posting above.

A very heavy shower moved thru Marshland about 230pm that I would have normally associated with a thunderstorm but yes any risk today would have been very limited.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

A grey and overcast, grizzly day today with 3.1mm and only 12.9C recorded for a maximum temperature.

[Richard]

A grey and overcast, grizzly day today with 3.1mm and only 12.9C recorded for a maximum temperature.

The other end of Canterbury - fine apart from being cloudy when the two showers went over followed by the return of the NW wind, max temp of 19deg. Last 7 days have seen max temps between 19 and 22.

[David]

2 new November records for me yesterday:

Highest mean daily temp 20.4C
Highest dewpoint 22.0C

[Razor]

Alot of cloud cover and not alot of instability at all today John. Convergence foothills but that was it.

I don't know why MS forecasted thunderstorms for Canterbury yesterday for today?
Did they expect low cloud and clagg to clear and create instability as we are under low surface hPa readings at the moment?
I think they do tend to over-forecast thunderstorms or 'thundery "showers in some of their forecasts, mind you there was some activity around NW regions of the South Island today and the sound of thunder reported by Richard in the posting above.

It was bright sunshine in ChCh for the initial part of sunday, followed by a couple of heavy showers

[darcyplumb]

Skies are starting to look unstable in Ashburton this afternoon. I can see a convergence on radar too.

[Richard]

Sundays storms must have been intense as the Waiau and Hurunui rivers are up and dirty today,

[snowstormwatcher]

Unexpected showers here this evening, Metservice forecast for Timaru says fine weather.

[David]

Another warm day here with 24.4C. Looks like a decent chance it could be my station’s warmest November, unless the second half is colder than the first half by at least 0.6C

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Unexpected showers here this evening, Metservice forecast for Timaru says fine weather.

Yes, I noticed that also it has been rather cloudy with the occasional overthrow shower from the west however clearing up this evening.
After the cloud cleared away overnight and this morning, it was quite warm in the sun with today's maximum being 21.7C.
Here's picture I took today looking towards the 4 Peaks area thinking some thing may happen but it sort of dwindled away.

[mikestormchaser]

Low risk hail/ thunder Chance north otago up to south Canterbury tomorrow evening. Not sure if it will push further north though with such low surface moisture around.

[Orion]

Fresh NW breeze has risen over the past hour or so, and there have been some quite strong gusts.

Sunny, only 16°C.

[darcyplumb]

Fresh NW breeze has risen over the past hour or so, and there have been some quite strong gusts.

Sunny, only 16°C.

A rather chilly NW wind today. I see it’s been snowing at Mt Hutt most of the day.