General March Weather

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Re: General March Weather

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NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: Fri 10/03/2023 23:43
Yes. I don't know what the fuss was about yesterday's thunderstorm outlook. I would of given yesterday nothing but MS said moderate.
No surface heating and skies were flat. No instability like today. Thunderstorms along the Alps were moving north not out across the plains.
Today's clear skies and onshore SE sea breeze created the instability to form inland and hence across the plains from the front that moved north yesterday.
Good to have run into you today John, I was telling John today that the cells that did develop were small but intense, missed here by a few kms but our daughter who lives 7km had one pass over, I will try and find out how much fall in what was about a 10min cloud burst, there was pea size hail which is a big as it gets around here.
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Good to run into Richard at the Mayfield show. He said the thunderstorms showers were short but quite intense yesterday, hense a MS release of a STW over parts of Canterbury yesterday, especially north of here.
Anyway, a nice fine day for the show with a light NE .
Enjoyed the piggy races. :smile:
Today's maximum was 24.4C.
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Tomorrow mornings SW change is a short sharp trough for the south island. Could be a nice southerly buster / gust front for parts early morning. Low thunder chances though
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Nice fine day today. Got a lot of weeding done.
Fine this morning but high cloud moving in from the west during the afternoon.
Light NE for a while but then not much wind. 25.1C for today.
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Wind change has just arrived by the sound of things;
17.3°C at the moment and still dark.
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As above, wind change has arrived, very strong, lots of things banging in the yard.
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Not by any means a strong change here, just a run of the mill SW change, pretty boring really.
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Another FC seen on (I think) Sunday 12th March at 18:40 near to Haast Beach which I beleive is on the SW coast of the south island.

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Richard wrote: Mon 13/03/2023 09:53 Not by any means a strong change here, just a run of the mill SW change, pretty boring really.
Nice strong change and gust front moved through rolleston at 7am Richard. Quite spectacular with the sunrise
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mikestormchaser wrote: Mon 13/03/2023 10:21
Richard wrote: Mon 13/03/2023 09:53 Not by any means a strong change here, just a run of the mill SW change, pretty boring really.
Nice strong change and gust front moved through rolleston at 7am Richard. Quite spectacular with the sunrise
Often these chances tend to be more coastal
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Got reports from a friend at North Loburn that during Fridays storms lightning struck a local 150 year old Sequoia Dendren and only half is still standing, asked for photos
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This rain is certainly more persistent than hoped for from a Test cricket at Hagley perspective.
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SW change roared through here around 7am. Pretty sure I heard a distant rumble of thunder not long after. :smile:
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Surprised to hear rain on the roof right now. Radar shows a decent heavy shower moving across the coastal part of the plains.
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darcyplumb wrote: Mon 13/03/2023 22:00 Surprised to hear rain on the roof right now. Radar shows a decent heavy shower moving across the coastal part of the plains.
Interesting wee development along the South Canterbury coast around the Rangitata Mouth area this evening. Also there were some showers way out to sea as well.
Anyway, today, it came onto rain overnight in the early hours of this morning with a wind change here around 7am with rain this morning.
Gradually clearing away from noon and becoming fine and sunny this afternoon. 5.3mm for here today.
Quite a cool morning with figures from the southerly change only in the single figures with today's minimum of 8.1C recorded around 10am this morning. 17.1C was today's maximum recorded this afternoon around 3.30pm.
Fine and calm evening.
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Been great to have the more settled weather so far this month, only 6mm MTD on my station.
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A mainly fine March so far, warmer temperatures over eastern parts of the Auckland region due to southwest breezes.
The airport month to date average min temperature is 15-7C- max 23.3C.
MetService Northshore month to date average min 15.6C-max 24.6C
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After a cool autuminal start, a fine and sunny day eventuated. From 4.1C, it climbed up to 21.7C. Not much wind.
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Down to 9.9C here this morning, which is the first morning to break 10C since Oct 23 last year.
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A cloudy day with light NE.
18C for today.
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Cool upper level troughing, moist flow and frontal activity crossing NZ tomorrow Friday and Saturday morning bring some thunderstorm risk to many areas . The thunder risk for Auckland is on Saturday morning .
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Spending the weekend on a friends yacht watching the SailGP in Lyttelton Harbour. Looking forward to some consistent northerlies that will produce some great racing and hopefully some sunshine.
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JP. wrote: Thu 16/03/2023 16:12 Spending the weekend on a friends yacht watching the SailGP in Lyttelton Harbour. Looking forward to some consistent northerlies that will produce some great racing and hopefully some sunshine.
Really variable winds on the harbour this weekend, it will be a stern test (no pun intended) of sailing skill and forecasting technique.
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Another rather cloudy day but higher than yesterday with a NW Arch developing this afternoon.
Generally calm here for much of the day with a slight easterly drift. A bit hazy towards the hills.
Today's maximum was just 17.4C.
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On the 10th of March at around 2pm I was volunteering with a flood cleanup crew in Puketapu (west of Napier) when an awesome thunderstorm began to approach. It rolled over like an intense Wellington southerly front and became quite gusty. Then there was heavy rain for at least 20 minutes with plenty of thunder and lightning. All of the nearby land that was covered in silt immediately began to surface flood and same for some streets in Hastings. A tree was also struck by lightning in Hastings
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Wellington southerly front timelapse: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBl3hsuIg2Q
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