General August Weather

[Razor]

Its a damp old day here in Lincoln with 5 degrees and frequent showers for the past couple of hours. The flow is more Southerly today so its bringing things in more

[Kobi]

Frequent showers brushing the coast south of Christchurch, but are largely weakened by banks peninsula and only last as very brief weak showers by the time they get to Christchurch, 6.7C, feels like of 4C is the warmest we have gotten today so far

[James]

Methinks the Taranaki rain radar is throwing a hissy fit!

[Humai]

Perfect bluebird day in QT and AT. Calm and clear at Coronet Peak. Looks like more of the same tomorrow.

[Razor]

At at 8:15pm Mt Cook Village is already reporting -8

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Last night's cloud and rain cleared away to becoming a fine day today after a light frost this morning.
9.1C for today and becoming frosty this evening with it down to minus 1.6C at 10pm.

[Bradley]

A small chance of Christchurch Airport beating it's all-time lowest temp of -6.7C back in 1980 over the next 2 mornings, looks pretty optimal the conditions and also being at the very start of August won't hurt either!

[Kobi]

Sunday seems more likely to be the colder morning, MetService hourly forecast shows tonight going down to -3C, while the forecast overall is -5C, and the hourly forecast shows christchurch dropping to -4C Sunday morning while the overall forecast is again -5C

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Started off frosty overnight but cloud cover eased it off by dawn and as a consequence is was a mainly partly cloudy day with not much wind.
It did become sunny this afternoon with today's maximum being 11.3C. Frosty again this evening with clear skies and down to minus 0.7C at 10pm.

[harleyb]

Mt Cook village brushing -10C overnight with a breeze. Man that would have been bitter. Still below -10C at sunrise.

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[Dean.]

A slow thaw in inland Mid Canterbury at 500 metres asl
Awa Awa Reserve

[Razor]

Lake Lyndon today. Partially frozen

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Nice picture there, Tony. What is Lake Ida like? If Lake Lyndon is half frozen, Ida would be ideal for skating, probably?

[Dean.]

Lake Lyndon today. Partially frozen

Shot !

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

After a good frost this morning, a blue dome day evaluated, I mean eventuated, with a light northerly this afternoon, frosty again this evening, down to minus 1.6C at 10pm. Today's maximum was 10.7C.

[Richard]

Lake Lyndon today. Partially frozen

The colour coordination in that photo between the hat, boots and coat and that of the hills and the snow in the shade is fantastic. ........

[Bradley]

A small chance of Christchurch Airport beating it's all-time lowest temp of -6.7C back in 1980 over the next 2 mornings, looks pretty optimal the conditions and also being at the very start of August won't hurt either!

Christchurch ended up recording its 2nd coldest August minimum this morning on record with -6.1C

[Richard]

A small chance of Christchurch Airport beating it's all-time lowest temp of -6.7C back in 1980 over the next 2 mornings, looks pretty optimal the conditions and also being at the very start of August won't hurt either!

Christchurch ended up recording its 2nd coldest August minimum this morning on record with -6.1C

The climate change cultists will be whistling while they look the other way.

[Razor]

Nice picture there, Tony. What is Lake Ida like? If Lake Lyndon is half frozen, Ida would be ideal for skating, probably?

Haven't been to Ida for ages but I understand it's frozen twice so far this year

[Dean.]

Nice picture there, Tony. What is Lake Ida like? If Lake Lyndon is half frozen, Ida would be ideal for skating, probably?

Haven't been to Ida for ages but I understand it's frozen twice so far this year

Lake Ida yesterday
Skaters on the way there today.

[Dean.]

The Ashburton Domain with a good layer of ice

[darcyplumb]

The Ashburton Domain with a good layer of ice

It’s been a while since that’s happened.

[Storm Struck]

Impressive winter shots through the interior, something we havnt seen enough of for quite some years.
Would have said with the overnight temperatures this week places like Lake Lyndon might get a chance to freeze more solidly like it did years ago.
However there is moderate wind movement from the NW through the interior tomorrow which will get the daytime temperatures up around 9 or 10C there.

The next week will be relatively settled, but some polar shots moving up on Thursday/ Friday. GFS and ECMWF both in disagreement with what day.
The following Monday on the 12th looks the coldest although a stones throw out. Snow to low levels possible and one to watch.
Again GFS wants nothing to do with it yet ECMWF does.

I usually wait until closer to the day as models come into agreement more.
It's a fickle world of forecasting when we have so much to look at yet not enough time looking out our window. Unless of course there is a thunderstorm brewing

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

After another good frost this morning afine blue dome day eventuated with a maximum temperature of 10.6C. Calm day.

[Orion]

The Ashburton Domain with a good layer of ice

It’s been a while since that’s happened.

I guess it very much depends upon the rate of flow through the pond, its depth, and maybe even the activity and number of the birdies thereon