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A day of clagg here today with the occasional rain shower resulting in 4.3mm for today of light rain.
15.3C the max for the day when the sun popped out for a brief period around noon.

10mm here yesterday from mostly light rain.
A dry Good Friday coming up for Auckland with high cloudiness. Currently 15C.

I see Whangarei Aero has recorded 74mm in the last 24 hrs, and Whangaparaoa 31mm compared to just 8mm at Auckland Aero.
28mm here (mtd 46mm).

Kerikeri with 3.2mm. A mainly dry Good Friday coming up for Northland.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: ↑Thu 06/04/2023 23:05 A day of clagg here today with the occasional rain shower resulting in 4.3mm for today of light rain.
15.3C the max for the day when the sun popped out for a brief period around noon.

Thankfully that clagg stayed 20km south of here and so it stayed a mainly sunny day, but it did come in as it got dark. Hopefully it clears off today now.

A generally scattered cloudy day with light easterlies. Some weak Cu. today;s maximum was 14.9C.

Another partly cloudy day with cool NE winds. 16.2C for today.

After a cool start, it became a fine sunny morning but it clouded up from noon and more so later in the day with some light drizzle this evening.
Not much wind. NE initially but dying away later this afternoon.
Calm this evening. some drizzle. 17.1c the maximum for today.

Moderators: Maybe the tornado events over Easter become a separate topic for future reference?

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: ↑Tue 11/04/2023 18:21 Moderators: Maybe the tornado events over Easter become a separate topic for future reference?

Done. See new, 'T-Storms & Tornadoes - Apr 9-13' thread.

It was mainly fine overnight and this morning with sunny periods and scattered cloud, high and low, but during the afternoon it gradually clagged over with low cloud and becoming dull and overcast. Coming onto rain from 7pm with 7.5mm falling to 10pm this evening.
Not much wind, if so from the south. 17C the maximum for today when it was sunny

You seem to be living in clagg grand central John. Sunny most of the day here but clouded over late afternoon with a shower of rain

Richard wrote: ↑Wed 12/04/2023 17:32 You seem to be living in clagg grand central John. Sunny most of the day here but clouded over late afternoon with a shower of rain

Clagg Grand Central all-right.
Nothing much out of this system here apart from clagg and not much wind. Wrong side of this trough for storms, just clagg.
Met some people for lunch we know from Waikuku who said that it was fine and sunny when they left this morning but from Rolleston southwards it was just grey skies with the occasional drizzle/rain shower through to Geraldine.

But Ive heard that Geraldine is the calmest town in NZ, I reckon that would be right too.

Richard wrote: ↑Wed 12/04/2023 18:02 But Ive heard that Geraldine is the calmest town in NZ, I reckon that would be right too.

Yes.It can be calm here whilst it can be windy in places like Mayfield or Levels Airport.
Can be windy here too but not as strong as in other places around South Canterbury.
...anyway, an overcast day of grey skies and the occasional drizzle/light rain shower.
4mm for today with a maximum temperature of 13.1C.

Getting some torrential drizzle here at the moment

Heavy rain here in Lincoln for the past hour, yet not a drop 10 minutes away at home

Razor wrote: ↑Thu 13/04/2023 13:58 Heavy rain here in Lincoln for the past hour, yet not a drop 10 minutes away at home

Yes you could see a convergence line running SE/NW on the satellite

Driving back from Timaru this afternoon through the clagg and drizzle there was a bit of a convergence line going through Winchester about 4pm which delivered a bit of a short burst of a heavy drizzle shower.

Another grey day of low cloud, clagg and drizzly showers. 13.mm for today. 14c the maximum for today from 11.7C overnight.

4.5mm of drizzle overnight but easing away this morning. Remaining rather cloudy with boring Sc layers about the place. Light Easterly.
14C,for today. Reports of flooding across SH8 between Kimball and Twizel today and yesterday.
I noticed the Waihi, Opihi and Te Moana/Temuka rivers were dirty today.

Another band of drizzle/light rain moving into the city now, I guess that's what you get with a big high parked to the east.

The models are pointing to some heavy rain for the west coast Marlborough and Canterbury on Wednesday under a developing tropical finger from the north, but most and more concerning is through Thursday and Friday for the northern west coast and top of the south with some big rainfall totals possible.

This is very typical the flip flopping between a more El Nino like end to March to a neutral phase more characteristic of La Nina.
These are never abrupt changes so it's fair to say we are going to a very active period with lows from the north and south as we towards winter.
So probably my pick is June will be the month to watch in terms of low level snow events, after that the more westerly phases will kick in more often.

Fogging up overnight and this morning but clearing away to become a partly cloudy day with light NE.

A warm week ahead for the time of year, particularly at night.
Some overnight dew point temperatures are modelled to be as high as 18-19C for the upper North Island, very warm for mid April.