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Re: General July Weather

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jamie wrote: ↑Wed 06/07/2022 10:14I run my manual one within 30m of my electronic gauge all year round so I am always on top of an incorrect reading. It can vary massively tho. I can have +/- up to 5mm on rainfalls like we had. For example yesterdays event was 34mm electronic and 30mm manual. However it can easily go the opposite. On a event 70mm it can get close to 10mm difference each way.
Do you find wind affects it at all?
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Re: General July Weather

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Blue dome day. 11.5C maximum with it becoming frosty this evening..
Downhill from tomorrow with clagg settling in reverting to wintry weather for the WE.
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Mt Ruapehu Ski Fields still need more snow (big volcanic rocks take a log of covering!)
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Re: General July Weather

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Bitterly cold here today. 2.8 degrees with cloud thickening.
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tgsnoopy wrote:
jamie wrote: ↑Wed 06/07/2022 10:14I run my manual one within 30m of my electronic gauge all year round so I am always on top of an incorrect reading. It can vary massively tho. I can have +/- up to 5mm on rainfalls like we had. For example yesterdays event was 34mm electronic and 30mm manual. However it can easily go the opposite. On a event 70mm it can get close to 10mm difference each way.
Do you find wind affects it at all?
Have never noticed but could well be the strongest reasoning behind it.


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soil temperature has been over 13c here
that is very high for the time of year
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jamie wrote:
tgsnoopy wrote: Do you find wind affects it at all?
Have never noticed but could well be the strongest reasoning behind it.


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My one seemed to chronically underread during 2020 and part of 2021 , so much so ran calibration checks to try to work out what was wrong, but now it seems to match other gauges, it seems to work better when get regular and decent amounts of rain. I guess some of that is absolute error, 10mm verses 5mm seems like a big error when in a drought, but 50mm verses 55mm seems like a minor discrepancy.

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After a frosty start, well pre dawn, cloud moved in to become a rather overcast and cold day with not much wind. 8.6C the maximum for today.
Drizzle this evening.
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Rain overnight and this morning but gradually easing away during the morning. 20.7mm for today.
Cloud clearing for a while this afternoon with the sun poking through at times.
Cloudy evening. 9.2C the maximum for today.
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another warm night here, 15c most of the night
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A Spring like westerly for Auckland today, a chance to get lawns mowed, more rainy lows on the way.
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By chance I drove straight through this severe thunderstorm in the Manawatu early this afternoon. I have never seen rain so intense, it was practically undriveable. The icing on the cake was a brilliant CG directly in front of us and maybe about a kilometre away. Great stuff. πŸ‘

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A grey overcast day eventuated with the southerly coming through during the morning.
6.7mm of rain from the southerly change. 8.5C for today.
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another warm night here (15c) and with a maximum of 18c or so, my 24 hour average temperature was 5.2C above normal
crazy
(I also see that Antartica sea ice is still at record low,and temperatures over the whole continent have been above average so far)
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Photos on Facebook of snow falling in Methven this morning.
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I’m starting to wonder if Auckland will get a winter at all. Usually by mid August it’s starting to feel a wee bit spring-like, so that leaves a month left for a winter spell. At least my power bills are low, am barely turning the heat pump on. Used it more in what seemed a very long summer, which is fine by me as I much prefer warm weather, but not so flash for the planet.
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19.8c here with near full sun for a while as the high cloud thinned..another record for me
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Awhituobs wrote: ↑Sun 10/07/2022 14:25 19.8c here with near full sun for a while as the high cloud thinned..another record for me
Full sun and 9.2deg here!
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TonyT wrote: ↑Sun 10/07/2022 14:30
Awhituobs wrote: ↑Sun 10/07/2022 14:25 19.8c here with near full sun for a while as the high cloud thinned..another record for me
Full sun and 9.2deg here!
Sounds idyllic. Cloudy and 6.5 here!
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Razor wrote: ↑Sun 10/07/2022 15:01
TonyT wrote: ↑Sun 10/07/2022 14:30

Full sun and 9.2deg here!
Sounds idyllic. Cloudy and 6.5 here!
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TonyT wrote: ↑Sun 10/07/2022 15:54
Razor wrote: ↑Sun 10/07/2022 15:01

Sounds idyllic. Cloudy and 6.5 here!
:lol:
A mild 3 degrees at the Ashburton Lakes today
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Air temp. -0.2Β°C now, let us see what the morning brings.
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A fine sort of day with not much wind but a light NE sprang up this afternoon for a while.
Becoming frosty this evening.
8.9C the maximum for today.
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After a good frost this morning, the day gradually clouded over from the north with some drizzle this evening.
Cold day with the temperature not getting into the positives until late morning.
7.4C it got up to this afternoon.
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another warm night here, currently 16.7c at 6:30 am
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