General January Weather

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Looks like after New Year, the weather looks settled to start off the New Year.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Just heard a distant clap of thunder to welcome in the New Year

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

After a fine clear day yesterday, mainly a blue dome day except for one or two clouds, today was a different story with southerlies freshening late morning and becoming cloudy during the afternoon and more claggier as the afternoon and evening wore on.
Southerlies becoming more easterlish this afternoon and evening.
Today's max was 21.5C around noon.

[Razor]

Very heavy showers overnight here in Kairaki. Chch copped a few too by the looks. Some strong convergences i think

[spwill]

The timing of an upper level trough is something to watch for Saturday over the NI otherwise a quiet period of weather ahead.

[Richard]

Chch copped a few too by the looks. Some strong convergences i think

Very patchy, Noticed Rangiora had a good falls but 10k's towards Oxford dry ground.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Cloudy overnight and this morning but becoming much brighter with fine breaks this afternoon with NE winds.
Today's maximum was 23.1C.

[spwill]

An upper level trough brings the risk of isolated afternoon thunderstorms north of Taupo on Saturday. See how this looks in the coming model runs.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

A cloudy but warm day with light winds from the east, cloud more so during the afternoon with a bit of a NW Arch out there.
Today's maximum was 27C.
Looks like back to the clagg tomorrow.

[spwill]

Dew point temperatures 17-18C for the upper North Island tomorrow with heating and convergence. Heavy showers/thunderstorm risk Gisborne Ranges/BOP to Northland.

[Storm Struck]

Today's rainfall has been very isolated, with lots of convergence areas and thick light rain/drizzle.
A welcome 15mm here though, the showery bands may return again in the morning but has certainly given a small reprieve to the drying soils.

Having said that a settled but dry weekend ahead and warm week next week with temperatures into the early 30,s by the end of the week.

[David]

Scattered showers around Auckland today, nothing recorded locally apart from a brief spotty shower early afternoon. See if tomorrow has better activity

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Tomorrow should have some activity up your way, David, sadly not down here.
Today was a grey and overcast cold day with rain from early this morning but easing off during the afternoon but remaining overcast with clagg.
Today's maximum was 19.6C, early this morning but today's daytime temperature maximum was only 13C.
6.1mm of rain for today. Not much wind.

[David]

Photo of rain showers over Maraetai, eastern Auckland at 9.30am

[CbFan]

Currently beating up Paihia, having a good grumble to itself

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Cloudy overnight but gradually clearing away this morning with some fluffy Cu forms but during the afternoon, after some high cloud moved across becoming fine and fine and clear this evening, Today's maximum was 21C.

[Razor]

Gee it looks like a good long spell of proper summer weather coming up. Fantastic!

[spwill]

Fine here today but we do have sea breeze convergence Cu building over some suburbs, NE v SW sea breeze
Some nice shower cells developed east and south of here yesterday afternoon with the trough passing over, a couple of photos.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Gee it looks like a good long spell of proper summer weather coming up. Fantastic!

I don't know about that. It started off nice and sunny and warm here in Geraldine, then from noon it started to become cloudier and as the afternoon wore on sort of become back to the clagg again with overcast and grey skies back again. Light winds though keeping the temperature rather mild. Today's maximum was 23.7C around noon before the cloud rolled in.

[Richard]

Just passed 30deg at 1.00pm, currently on 30.3deg

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Not quite 30C here, Richard, but warm with today's maximum being 26.4C.
Fine for a start off but thin As layers moving across this afternoon before it become more cloudier later in the day and evening. I noticed that it wasn't hot anywhere today but a very warm 31C in Twizel and Hanmer Springs also was very warm today.

[Richard]

Bit cooler today with 26deg, nice temp considering there's a few hot ones coming up

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Warm day here, got up to 25.4C today with a light east to SE and currussy high cloud cover, thickening later especially later this afternoon and into the evening.

[Razor]

First day back at work for the new year and its an extremely windy one here in Lincoln. Bits of trees blowing all over the roads and some very hefty NE gusts coming through, strongest I've seen in a long time from this direction

[darcyplumb]

First day back at work for the new year and its an extremely windy one here in Lincoln. Bits of trees blowing all over the roads and some very hefty NE gusts coming through, strongest I've seen in a long time from this direction

The same for us in Ashburton. Very rare for the NEasterly to be so strong here. Lots of dust being blown around too.