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Low cloud overnight clearing away this morning to make it a nice and fine sunny day, ideal for balloon watching.
Light variable winds making it a mild day for April with it getting up to 18.4C.
Another shot of today's balloon.

spwill wrote: ↑Sun 16/04/2023 09:10 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.

Looking quite likely that the mean daily min for April will be higher than it was for March.

No balloons today but a fine and mild day with gradually increasing lines from north to south of high level stripe cloud turning to strips of Cc/Ac layers moving east and thickening this afternoon. Not much wind. Today's maximum being 19.5C here today.
Here's a photo from today

A non event sort of day with thickening high cloud and NW Arch and not much wind.
A bit of few drips of rain from the high cloud which had some interesting forms this afternoon.
16.4C the maximum for today.

The minimum overnight temperature at Grey Lynn was 19.2C. The current Auckland dew point is 17.5C, Kaitaia dew point is currently 18.5C.

Not a very interesting day weather wise.
Partly cloudy conditions and light variable winds.
17.2C the maximum for today.

Horrid night for this time of the year.Temp only dropped to 18.9°C (with 96% humidity) approaching 6am.

Auckland was 19C overnight, dewpoint 18C.

Just keeping an eye on Monday which has been in the models for a few days now, some quite cold upper air coming through with -34C at 500mb.
Total totals are quite high at 60 so looking at this stage very good for thunderstorms and hail around midday to mid afternoon for the plains and coast.
An earlier SW surge in the morning will see rain before a clearance and trough move inbehind with much colder air.
One to watch

Lovely sunny day here once the fog cleared early, 20.4 deg the max

Totally the opposite here. Geraldine tops again for the claggiest day in the country. Fog overnight not really lifting all day with hardly any wind.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: ↑Thu 20/04/2023 17:59 Totally the opposite here. Geraldine tops again for the claggiest day in the country. Fog overnight not really lifting all day with hardly any wind.

Clagg grand central hey

Mum and dad were in Peel Forest. Must have been similar there.

High cloudiness for Auckland today with the temperature reaching a balmy 24C, dew point 18C.

Good convergence and some instability brings some thunderstorm risk to much of the North Island on Saturday, the risk is mostly south of Hamilton.

wembley wrote: ↑Thu 20/04/2023 22:59 Mum and dad were in Peel Forest. Must have been similar there.

Would of been. I don't know the extent of the clagg as it was so miserable weather wise , we stayed home and demolished our fence which was falling down anyway and used some of the planks, as the wood was old and untreated, to light the fire this afternoon.
It was foggy overnight and this morning but it never really lifted high enough to clear away. No wind all day. When I lit the fire, the smoke went straight up. 12.8C the maximum for today.Another grey day tomorrow?

With this recent warm weather, my station's mean temp for the first 20 days of April is +0.4C compared to March. Last night the 3rd night in a row of 19C min.

Another day of clagg here but milder than yesterday and useful with 12.6mm of steady but light rain falling for much of the day.
Calm for much of the day and only 13.5C the maximum.

A fine day here for a change even though there was a few mist patches around this morning.
Mild too with it getting up to 18.4C. Light NE.

The change of air will be noticeable here tomorrow, the Auckland dew point will be down to 3C later tomorrow after being 20C yesterday.

Woah! Wind change has arrived with a bang.

darcyplumb wrote: ↑Sun 23/04/2023 21:45 Woah! Wind change has arrived with a bang.

Wind change went through here just after 9pm. not much here really, just a southerly breeze before easing.
Anyway, nice fine sunny day with some interesting Ac lenticular forms developing.
Today's maximum was 20.5C

I hear thunder in Waltham.

Cracking good thunder and lightning, Halswell. Woke us up well and truly

It's highly unusual for a change to be electrical at this time of night/morning.

Long rolling thunder woke me up, seen a few cracker bolts including just then big CG.
Very heavy rain currently, will try and get some lightning shots.