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A bit of rain/drizzle overnight but clearing away this morning to become a blue dome day here with not much wind. A bit of a southerly this morning but nothing much to write home about. Today's maximum was 9C. Becoming frosty this evening.
Line of cloud along the coast.

Latest ECMWF forecast is putting approx 80mm on the ground in Christchurch next Monday through to Wednesday. I really think if that amount of rain falls there could be some major problems around Christchurch and Canterbury in general with flooding...

Bradley wrote: ↑Fri 22/07/2022 10:42 Latest ECMWF forecast is putting approx 80mm on the ground in Christchurch next Monday through to Wednesday. I really think if that amount of rain falls there could be some major problems around Christchurch and Canterbury in general with flooding...

yes looks like 5-7 wet days in the pipeline

Bradley wrote: ↑Fri 22/07/2022 10:42 Latest ECMWF forecast is putting approx 80mm on the ground in Christchurch next Monday through to Wednesday. I really think if that amount of rain falls there could be some major problems around Christchurch and Canterbury in general with flooding...

Great! Even the drizzle that fell the other day caused ponding in my yard. The ground is totally saturated.

Bradley wrote: ↑Fri 22/07/2022 10:42 Latest ECMWF forecast is putting approx 80mm on the ground in Christchurch next Monday through to Wednesday. I really think if that amount of rain falls there could be some major problems around Christchurch and Canterbury in general with flooding...

Wow that will be problematic, we saw what around 40mm ish did on Monday

After a frosty start, the day was fine and warm out of the wind. Cool but light southerly turning more easterly this afternoon.
Cloud coming in from off the hills this evening with it coming onto drizzle with 0.9mm of the stuff recorded for today.
Today's maximum was 11.1C.

icy wind here (early morning)
(10 knot easterly and 6.1c, with the windchill being only 3.4c)
brrr (for us lol)

Rain gauge update: I’ve bought the new VP2 tipping spoon mechanism and aerocone which supposedly improve accuracy. Also bought a little bubble level to see if the station has moved and is no longer level. So once I get the new stuff here and installed I’ll continue the comparisons in the months ahead.

For the month to date the manual gauge is around 189mm vs 144mm on the VP2. Haven’t noticed many wind effects, sometimes the discrepancy has even been bigger during gentle winds

Have Niwa come out with the August outlook yet?

Some talk on social media about a severe cold snap at the end of the month, I just can’t see it on either GFS or ECMWF, been a few runs over the past 24 hours with nothing showing…

Bradley wrote: ↑Sat 23/07/2022 16:57 Some talk on social media about a severe cold snap at the end of the month, I just can’t see it on either GFS or ECMWF, been a few runs over the past 24 hours with nothing showing…

There have also been some GFS and ECMWF runs which do show it. There are other indicators than just these operational models which lend weight to the idea.

Slight frosty conditions this morning and crunchy underfoot this evening.
Drizzly clagg cleared away overnight to become a fine and sunny day. Some cloud moving in this evening but clearing away later.
9.9C the maximum for today.

After a frosty start, a mainly fine day eventuated but with some cloud at times. 8.9C the maximum for today.

After a good frost overnight, the day was rather overcast but thin high cloud revealed the sun this afternoon.
The rain finally arrived from 6pm with it raining from then with 5.7mm falling to 10pm tonight. 8C the maximum for today.

I see Met Service are now mentioning snow developing for Sunday on the Rakaia forecast.

A grey overcast wet day with a total of 58.8mm of rain falling. Easterly winds and 8.3C for a maximum.
The cleaning out of the soakpits were successful with not much pooling of water on out street today.

gale westerlies here overnight
sure has been an unsettled July
now at record rain (283mm)

It' has been a very quiet Winter for thunderstorms here. There is some thunderstorm potential with the system crossing tomorrow morning.

Another 10.5mm in my manual gauge since 9am yesterday, with 230 accumulated this month. Easily the wettest month in the last 4 years.

I’ve got my new rain gauge equipment so will be looking to get that installed soon

Auckland Aero's 2nd wettest July with 247mm so far.
Its July and all-time record is 304mm set in July 1998.

Also Kerikeri Aero's 2nd wettest July with 554mm so far.
Its July and all-time record is 609mm also set in July 1998.

218mm mtd here so far.

July 1998 was my previous record (280mm)

Another 9mm of rain overnight before easing off and gradually clearing away this morning.
Cloudy afternoon but there were some sunny breaks which made it nice in the conservatory.
Today's maximum was 12.9C with light winds from the south.

some nice looking CB's out to my west

A quick 7mm in the manual gauge here earlier this morning, woke me up as it pounded on the windows

A rather boring day with scattered mid-range cloud and calm conditions.
Today's maximum around the 10C mark.