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Re: General March Weather
Posted: Wed 29/03/2023 09:20
by David
Will be interesting to see how cold it gets tonight - my record for March over the last 14 years is 6.3C in 2010, could see similar tomorrow morning.
Re: General March Weather
Posted: Wed 29/03/2023 10:07
by Storm Struck
Certainly very chilly this morning, and so early on in the season definitely noticing the change to El Nino compared to the last 4 years.
Showers still coming through with heavy hail, 2-3mm in diameter.
If the day heats up abit more we might hear a clap of thunder in them.
Re: General March Weather
Posted: Wed 29/03/2023 10:29
by tich
Bits of hail in heavier showers in St Albans this morning. Dusting of snow visible on Mt Herbert.
Re: General March Weather
Posted: Wed 29/03/2023 11:18
by Orion
Sudden squall right now, something rattly falling in the rain. 7.4°C.
Re: General March Weather
Posted: Wed 29/03/2023 11:43
by Richard
Hasn't been much rain here over the last day or so, 8mm.
Re: General March Weather
Posted: Wed 29/03/2023 12:16
by darcyplumb
Orion wrote: ↑Wed 29/03/2023 11:18
Sudden squall right now, something rattly falling in the rain. 7.4°C.
Another one coming in now.
Re: General March Weather
Posted: Wed 29/03/2023 12:21
by Orion
^ I see that.
6.7°C.
Re: General March Weather
Posted: Wed 29/03/2023 12:36
by Razor
38mm at home in Halswell since yesterday morning. Turning out to be a wet month
Re: General March Weather
Posted: Wed 29/03/2023 12:45
by Richard
Just short of 70mm for March here, so around the average. The dairy farm next door had the central pivot going yesterday, wouldn't have thought it was dry enough to have that going.
Re: General March Weather
Posted: Wed 29/03/2023 16:23
by David
A max temp of 17.8C here today. Looking at my monthly records the previous lowest daily max for March was 18.7C, so that's one March record down...
Re: General March Weather
Posted: Wed 29/03/2023 23:13
by NZ Thunderstorm Soc
A bit of a similar day to yesterday but wintry showers moving up from the south gradually easing as the surface barometer pressure rose.
South to SW winds gradually easing. The sun came out this afternoon making it pleasant in the conservatory where I fell asleep reading today's
Timaru Herald 
11.6C the maximum temperature for today.
0.9mm of rain for today.
Re: General March Weather
Posted: Thu 30/03/2023 09:47
by spwill
Looks like the first morning of the year when the temperature across Auckland dropped below 10C.
Re: General March Weather
Posted: Thu 30/03/2023 10:02
by David
Bottomed out at 6.4C here around 5am, just 0.1C off the March record
Re: General March Weather
Posted: Thu 30/03/2023 12:47
by spwill
A cloudy humid weekend coming up for Auckland. Rain or showers here Saturday, lighter isolated showers Sunday.
Conditions unstable enough for a thunderstorm risk on Saturday, dew point temperatures 18C on Saturday.
Re: General March Weather
Posted: Thu 30/03/2023 22:50
by NZ Thunderstorm Soc
A generally fine and sunny day here with light southerly winds. 14.3C for today. Cool night with it dipping down to 1.7C about 7am this morning.
Mt. Peel this afternoon.
Re: General March Weather
Posted: Fri 31/03/2023 09:15
by David
My station recorded a 24hr mean temp of 12.5C yesterday, previous lowest for March (since 2010) was 13.8C
Re: General March Weather
Posted: Fri 31/03/2023 23:09
by NZ Thunderstorm Soc
Nice fine sunny day here today with light NE. 18.3C the max for today'
High cloud increasing this evening.
Re: General March Weather
Posted: Sun 02/04/2023 06:45
by Nev
After record summer rainfalls for the upper and eastern North Island and droughts in the southern and western South Island, the tables seem to have reversed for March. The month was also noticeably cooler for the upper North Island, which brought March's overall national average temp down to near normal.
Mar 2023 Climate Anomaly Maps ℅ NIWA.png
Preliminary stats for the main centres:
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Mar 2023 Average Temps, Rainfall, Sunshine and departures from 1991-2020 normals ℅ NIWA
Site T-max °C T-min °C T-mean °C Rain mm Sun hrs
Auckland, Mangere 22.6 0.0 13.8 -1.0 18.2 -0.5 37 41% 258 128%
Tauranga Aero * 22.9 0.0 13.6 -0.3 18.3 -0.1 74 78%
Hamilton Aero * 22.4 -0.7 9.7 -1.4 16.0 -1.1 61 75% 244 123%
Wellington, Kelburn 19.1 0.0 12.9 +0.2 16.0 +0.1 134 134% 195 96%
Christchurch Aero 19.9 -0.4 9.7 +0.2 14.8 -0.1 126 279% 206 108%
Dunedin, Musselburgh 18.9 +1.3 10.7 +0.5 14.8 +0.9 106 197% 189 114%
Greymouth Aero 19.9 +1.2 11.5 +0.1 15.7 +0.7 291 166% 199 111%
* Tauranga missing 2 day's rainfall * Hamilton sunshine from Ruakura
Re: General March Weather
Posted: Sun 02/04/2023 08:26
by spwill
Whangaparaoa had an average maximum temperature of 23.2C, ave min 14.6C this March, that was the warmer side of the Auckland region.
Re: General March Weather
Posted: Sun 02/04/2023 15:21
by NZ Thunderstorm Soc
March readings from Geraldine.
min - 1.5C Thursday 30th
max - 28.2C Thursday 2nd
Highest min - 16.1C Friday 2nd
Lowest maximum - 11.6C Wednesday 29th.
Total rain fall was 61.2mm over 16 days.
Re: General March Weather
Posted: Sun 02/04/2023 16:47
by Richard
Stats for Medbury
min - 1.7C - 14th
max - 26.4C - 2nd and 3rd
Highest min - 14.8 C 2nd
Lowest maximum - 9.1C - 29th.
Total rain fall was 70.8mm.
Thunder days - 1