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General April Weather

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GFS is keen on the idea of a cold second week of April.
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Hey Tony, what do you think the weather will be doing in Blenheim the weekend of the 30th May?
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Iloveweather wrote: Thu 31/03/2022 19:38 Hey Tony, what do you think the weather will be doing in Blenheim the weekend of the 30th May?
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If you would that’d be amazing, thanks!
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It's like when people ask me "How long is this rain going to last?"
I say that it's going to rain until it stops.
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Re: General April Weather

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Overcast grey cloud conditions today with some rain overnight becoming drizzly for much of the day but easing off this afternoon.
8.7mm for today. Rather cool confections today with the daytime maximum only reaching 11.6C.
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Sweets eh John!
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Chris Raine wrote: Sat 02/04/2022 06:06 Sweets eh John!
Sorry, that's a fault of the spell-checker. I didn't see that, I meant conditions.
...anyway a nice fine day with light SE here and a bit of scattered cloud this afternoon.
Just had 2 RNZAF Hercules aircraft flyng over a a very low level. Place stinks of aviation fuel [-X
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Quite a muggy day, 24/19
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The very low flightover of the Hercules aircraft this afternoon gave a fright to many locals which resulted in a smell of aviation fuel over the area but it cleared away when then SE freshened not long after. I thought it was inconsiderate of the RNZAF doing that as there are lots of resthomes in the area when are a lot of elderly people and with the Russia/Ukraine war is featured alot on the media.
...anyway a fine morning and early afternoon but it clouded over when the SE freshened and then cleared with it with a NE wind but clouded over this evening with some drizzle.
Today's maximum was 17,2C.
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Breezy day in Southland, winds averaging 30 to 40kph 18C though fine
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Grey Lynn up to 26C today.

Could do with some rain here, it looks like later Tuesday/ Wednesday morning for showers or rain here, perhaps some heavy showers.
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Equaled my record high for April here today. 25.5C max
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25.4c, was a record here as well for April for me
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I got 28.1 yesterday which is a record for April for me. Beating the previous 26.0. Quite remarkable. And today was 27.1.


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Out at the coast today, it was as good as any summer's day, water was 21C and beaches were packed. Even when a bit of onshore breeze came in after 1pm it didn't seem to drop the temperature noticeably at all.

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i use this word a lot lately
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Like this.

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Awhituobs wrote: Sun 03/04/2022 20:28 i use this word a lot lately
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Like me using the other 'c" word - clagg <3
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I am still swimming in our pool , never done that in April before
We will be able to grow tropical fruits in decades to come at this rate
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re the 20c off West Coast SI
I see that even Fiordland has 18c, which is way above normal!
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Awhituobs wrote: Sun 03/04/2022 21:09 I am still swimming in our pool , never done that in April before
Geez, nothing like that around here. Never went for a swim at the local baths this year compared to other years that we have been in Geraldine.
Now the swimming pools are closed, lots of people lightning fires. You see people in t shirts and shorts when it's 'freezing' outside?
...anyway today was a nice sunny day this morning after the drizzly cloud cleared away until the clagg moved in with some drizzle this evening.
Max was 18C before the low cloud moved in. 0.9mm of drizzle for today.
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On Saturday afternoon (2 April) several small funnel clouds formed out to sea north of New Plymouth. The day was fine and humid. Clouds were billowing up out to sea (first photo) and while they were dark underneath there appeared to be no rain of any magnitude and no lightning and thunder.
I saw the first at about 12.45 while driving from Oakura to New Plymouth. I did stop but had lost it by then and so didn't get any photos. I got home and told my wife I'm sure I saw a funnel cloud while driving home.
Around 1.25 I looked out to sea and saw a distinct funnel (second photo). A few minutes later a second smaller funnel formed just to the east (or right) of it. Sorry, it is quite hard to see (third photo). These two faded away after a few minutes.
Then about ten minutes later something much larger formed though it was never as distinctly funnel shaped (fourth photo). At the same time another smaller but more distinct funnel had formed in front of the larger one. It can be seen in both the fourth and fifth photos.
These two gradually drifted to the east and then faded away.
I don't think any of them touched down - there were no reports on any damage - in fact no reports on the funnel clouds at all.
I suspect there were some other funnels in the same event but they were very small, even through binoculars. I definitely saw five - four small but one that appeared as though it could develop into something significant - but didn't.
This is the second time I've seen multiple funnel clouds form out to sea north of New Plymouth. Back in February 2011 there was a similar slow moving cloud out to sea from which around 12 separate funnels formed over about a three hour period. A couple of those ones did touch down and form waterspouts.
Both these events were quite different to the frontal weather where we get occasional waterspouts and tornadoes in Taranaki. I've seen at least four of those as well.
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nice!
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The clagg managed to clear here today meaning its been a lovely afternoon with light winds, high temp of 19.4deg.
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