Your Local Weather Saturday 26th May 2012

[JennyLeez]

Report current or recent weather conditions at your location or elsewhere for Saturday 26th May below.
You do not need a weather station, just look out your window.

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[Weather Display]

WD reported FOG as my current conditions when I went to bed
(it had not yet formed at that stage)
sure enough its pea soup here now this morning

[Hank13]

Ashburton @  07:00 AM
Calm and Clear
Currant Temp.  5.0°C   
Min Temp.1.2°C @  2:14 AM
Max Temp.6.2°C @5:50 AM
Rain  0.0 mm
Current wind. 0.0 km/h,NNW
Min Grass -3.9°C @ 1:54 AM
Currant Grass Min. -1.5°C

[Te Puke Weather]

Today's data As At 8:00am 26.05.2012

Temperature and Humidity
High Temperature: 11.3 ° at 00:29
Low Temperature: 7.8 °C at 03:34
Temperature Range: 3.4 °C   
High Apparent Temperature: 11.1 °C at 00:35
Low Apparent Temperature: 7.1 °C    at 03:40
Low Wind Chill: 7.8 °C at 03:34
High Humidity: 100 % at 00:14
Low Humidity: 94 %   at 00:42
 
Rainfall
Rainfall Today:   0.0 mm   
Rainfall Rate Max: 0.0 mm/hr at 00:00
High Hourly Rainfall:   0.0 mm at 00:00
Days Since It Last Rained: 9   
 
Wind
Highest Gust: 8.6 km/h at 01:00
Highest Speed (10 minute average): 2.1 km/h (F1)   at 00:25
Wind Run   2.0 km   
Dominant Direction   207° SSW
   
Pressure
High Pressure: 1027.7 hPa at 06:31
Low Pressure: 1025.6 hPa at 02:38

Broken clouds light winds from the SW, Sun trying to shine.

[TonyC]

Port Robinson 8.45am
High overcast with a W to NW wind at around 11kmh, but gusting to 27kmh. Temperature 10.6° heading for a predicted high of 15°. No rain predicted, but expected to remain cloudy.

[ato2]

 :'(New Plymouth: no Sun! Overcast, slight SE, 11 degrees

[David]

We've had fog this morning in Howick, but it has thinned out a bit now. Low of 8.4ºC, currently 13

[ato2]

I wouldn't be surprised if this overhead stuff drops a lot lower here and we get fog as well

[Phil]

Belmont, Lower Hutt

10.6 degrees
96% Humidity
Calm
Nil Rain
Barometer on 1027.9
Solar 151

High cloud cover that will hopefully burn off

[Sara]

Temperature 9.2C
Humidity 92%
Barometer 1019.8hPa
Wind Direction E
Wind Speed 3.6km/h

Not a nice day.

[JennyLeez]

Wairoa at 11:00
Mainly Cloudy, Calm and Mild.
The Over Night Temp Low was  10.8 °C
Rainfall of  3.6 mm since midnight.
Rainfall last 24 hours 3.6 mm
Current Temp Outside is  16.8 °C with Humidity  72%  and Dew Point  11.7 °C
Latest Wind Gust  7.2 km/h with speed of  5.0 km/h  N
Wind Chill is  16.8 °C
Baro  1028.2 hPa and Solar:  451

[ato2]

New Plymouth: 13.6 degrees, drizzle, almost dead calm. Feels cold and miserable because of no Sun!

[Suezy]

West Melton

Full cloud and temp 9.8
Wind gust 11.3
Baro 1019.1

Rain MTD 8.6mm

[Te Puke Weather]

from The Metservice.
Today's high of 18 degrees was recorded in 1 place - Whitianga.

Today's lowest maximum temperature was 10 degrees and was recorded in 1 place - Hanmer Springs.
 

Town/City   Temp Kaitaia   17° Paihia   17° Russell   17° Dargaville   16° Whangarei   17° Auckland   17° Whitianga   18° Thames   17° Tauranga   17° Whakatane   17° Hamilton   14° Te Kuiti   16° Taumarunui   16° Rotorua   14° Tokoroa   15° Taupo   12° New Plymouth   14° Gisborne   15° Napier   15° Hastings   15° Napier Hastings   16° Dannevirke   15° Masterton   13° Wanganui   16° Palmerston North   16° Levin   14° Paraparaumu   14° Wellington   13° Motueka   14° Nelson   13° Blenheim   13° Kaikoura   11°

Reefton   14° Westport   14° Greymouth   12° Hokitika   12° Milford Sound   16° Christchurch   12° Ashburton   9° Oamaru   10° Timaru   8° Mount Cook   14° Alexandra   8° Queenstown   13° Wanaka   14° Dunedin   12° Gore   11° Invercargill   12° Hanmer Springs   7° Tuatapere   14° Riverton   14° Wyndham   13° Nightcaps   13° Winton   14° Te Anau   13°

[ato2]

New Plymouth should have been reported as 15 degrees, (14.6 degrees, rounded to 15). I Checked several other NZ stations and they were rounded up, not down.

Airport was 14.2 degrees and that would be rounded down to 14, obviously.

There was a long standing agreement made that Met Service would use the New Plymouth site to report daily temperatures to media( I won't go over old ground on this issue, it dates back decades and was concluded a number of years ago).

New Plymouth has records going back into the mid 19th century, whereas the airport, which has had two shifts, starts in the late 20th century. After that the official station in New Plymouth city was ignored.

The differences are not large in terms of maximum temperatures, but the minimum temperatures are often quite  different.