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Posted: **Thu 25/08/2022 17:10**

more very heavy rain and gales today
(19mm here)
looking forward to some nice spring weather coming up!

Posted: **Thu 25/08/2022 18:13**

Picked up 7mm here today. Was quite blustery around 5pm, picture from the usually serene Eastern beach.

Posted: **Thu 25/08/2022 22:45**

A grey day of clagg today with 2.1mm of dribble falling. Not much wind, if so from the NE. 8.9C for today.

Posted: **Thu 25/08/2022 23:20**

It appears the Wellington + Christchurch areas have had their wettest winter on record.

https://twitter.com/MetService/status/1 ... 8393686019

Would this still be the case if they had used the much longer record at Christchurch Botanic Gardens?

Posted: **Fri 26/08/2022 07:25**

Simon Culling wrote: ↑Thu 25/08/2022 23:20 It appears the Wellington + Christchurch areas have had their wettest winter on record.

https://twitter.com/MetService/status/1 ... 8393686019

Would this still be the case if they had used the much longer record at Christchurch Botanic Gardens?

I think Chch Gardens highest ever winter rainfall was 408.5mm in 1939, followed by 395.0mm in 1881 from records since 1864. However, its total so far this winter is only about 316mm, or about 330mm at NIWA's new EWS there.

Also note that 309.8mm of Chch Aero's 393.4mm this winter was recorded in July, whereas Jun and Aug there were/are below normal.

Posted: **Fri 26/08/2022 09:22**

Another unusually mild night here for August with 14C. The month is running about 1.2C above my station average

Posted: **Fri 26/08/2022 11:49**

yes, similar here
its been so long since we had a colder than normal month..years now (since jan 2017 it seems)

Posted: **Fri 26/08/2022 14:57**

As someone who has been viewing these webcams for 16 years, this is what this view should look like in late Nov to early Dec, to see it in late August is off the scale.

Posted: **Fri 26/08/2022 15:02**

they have just fired the other day a 3rd of the staff ..both fields are currently closed ..August is normally the snowiest month

the winter of 1998 was similar for lack of snow (i.e lots of warm rain to wash it away),. yes?

Posted: **Fri 26/08/2022 22:40**

Saw a lot of cars going through Geraldine with skis on their roofs. Must be heeding for Queenstown for the winter festival. Even though the snow level is retreating here and possibly along the Alps, there must be enough snow for this festival to eventuate.
Anyway, it was a mixed day of cloud levels and sunshine at times with a clearance to the south. Went to Fairlie today. The odd shower now and then driving down SH 79. Today's maximum was 14.5C. with hardly any wind.

Posted: **Sat 27/08/2022 07:53**

Some colder air reaching northern NZ over coming days but it should be mainly fine for Auckland.
The lowest temperature at Auckland airport last 12 days has been 10.7C, the run of warm nights is coming to an end.

Posted: **Sat 27/08/2022 20:59**

Awhituobs wrote:they have just fired the other day a 3rd of the staff ..both fields are currently closed ..August is normally the snowiest month
the winter of 1998 was similar for lack of snow (i.e lots of warm rain to wash it away),. yes?

1998 was before I had learned to ski, but read about it being a horror season. One difference is that the fields had little or no snowmaking facilities in those days. I suspect this season is even worse, would need a historian to answer this but possibly there has not been this little snow at end of Aigust since the first lifts were installed in the late 1950's, I don't remember reading about any season being worse than 1998.

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Posted: **Sat 27/08/2022 21:59**

And here's Mt Taranaki this afternoon courtesy of the Geonet webcam. I have never seen so little snow there at this time of year, it should be metres deep and down to the tussock at about 1500 m, near the top of the low level cloud in the pic. Incredible!

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Posted: **Sat 27/08/2022 22:16**

After a frost this morning, it was fine initially but during the morning the clagg moved in and remained all day. Today's maximum was 11.1C before the clagg moved in. Light SE.

Posted: **Sun 28/08/2022 23:08**

The clagg from yesterday reduced itself today by clearing but higher level cloud remaining which did clear for a wee while allowing the sun to come through. Today's maximum was 14.3C with a light SE wind.
Some unstable Cu forms developing under high pressure. 1038hPa the maximum for today.

Posted: **Mon 29/08/2022 07:12**

The high giving us a chance to catch up on sunshine hrs for August.

Posted: **Mon 29/08/2022 22:43**

Misty or foggy overnight and first up this morning but clearing away this morning to become a partly cloudy day with the odd sunshine now and then,
Light easterly winds. Today's maximum was 14.8C.

Posted: **Tue 30/08/2022 22:50**

After a light frost (zero degrees overnight around 7am) a blue dome day eventuated.
Mild today with it getting up to 16.9C this afternoon with a light NE.

Posted: **Wed 31/08/2022 14:32**

English oak leaves emerging while its still August.

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Posted: **Wed 31/08/2022 15:36**

Lovely last day of winter here, mostly sunny, 5C min 17C max

Posted: **Wed 31/08/2022 17:48**

cbm wrote: ↑Wed 31/08/2022 14:32 English oak leaves emerging while its still August.

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There's the odd one down here too, and Ive noticed its the same trees every year that are earlier than the others

Posted: **Wed 31/08/2022 23:27**

A lovely fine day to end of the winter season with a maximum of 17.7C with light winds from the north.
Some lenticular forms this afternoon with some cloud increasing tonight.

Posted: **Thu 01/09/2022 07:19**

Stats for Medbury - rainfall 59.2 mm
Temp max - 21.9deg 17th
min -4.1deg 12th
lowest max 3deg 9th
highest min 9.3deg 2nd

Posted: **Thu 01/09/2022 20:22**

A near record warm August overall and possibly NZ's warmest winter on record for the 3rd consecutive year. It was also very wet in some parts, including record or near record August rainfalls and flooding around the Far North, New Plymouth, Wellington, Nelson/Tasman and West Coast areas.

Aug 2022 Climate Anomaly Maps ℅ NIWA.png

Preliminary stats for the main centres:

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Aug 2022 Average Temps, Rainfall, Sunshine and departures from 1981-2010 normals ℅ NIWA

Site                     T-max °C      T-min °C      T-mean °C     Rain mm      Sun hrs

Auckland, Mangere       16.7  +1.7     9.4  +1.2    13.0  +1.4    142  125%    149  101%
Tauranga Aero           16.3  +1.3     8.0  +1.3    12.1  +1.3     91   83%    n/a   n/a
Hamilton Aero *         15.8  +1.1     5.7  +1.2    10.7  +1.1    111   93%    140   97%
Wellington, Kelburn     13.1  +0.9     8.6  +1.9    10.8  +1.4    275  237%    116   79%
Christchurch Aero       13.9  +1.5     3.2  +1.2     8.5  +1.3     39   63%    152   99%
Dunedin, Musselburgh    12.9  +1.7     5.4  +1.2     9.2  +1.5     18   32%    166  136%
Greymouth Aero          14.5  +1.7     6.5  +1.4    10.5  +1.6    283  147%    108   84%

* Sunshine from Ruakura

Posted: **Fri 02/09/2022 10:02**

August was 1.0C above average here. Just looking at some year to date stats and every month this year has been at least 0.8C above normal.

120mm for the month which is slightly below the long term average.

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