Your Local Weather Tuesday 12th June 2012

[einzack]

such a nice surprise to see the big yellow thing in the sky today.
with only 12 hours of sunshine recorded in the first 11 days of the month, i had forgotten what it looked like.
currently 1.8°C with a cool SE breeze.
expecting a mighty 5°C high today....

Was the sunshine reading from Greymouth, or where?

In Reefton.
Thats what Cliflo says, and i certainly don't doubt it. it's been a horrible month so far.

Remember there may also be a reduction due to topography? I think we talked about that last winter but can't remembr what was concluded, if anything.
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I do remember, and I said I would endeavor to take a photo of the stations location. I haven't done that, but I will.
from what I can see there's nothing I would think that would affect it - there is a line of trees ~30-40m to the west. As for topographic affects, the rangers are a significant distance away. But i'll try to take some pics this week and you can have a look.
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The trees might be significant, since your deficit relative to other Coast centres is quite big in winter, less so in other seasons. If the instrument mounting is not very high that could also contribute. There are 3 sites in the North Island where the EWS instrument is lower than the manual one was, and the totals obtained are lower than the old ones - a contrast to most cases where EWS has replaced manual.
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I think any deficiency is likely caused by the large amount of fog we get in Reefton during winter. In May for example, we didn't have a single clear fogless day. this morning was the first we've had all winter and that was because there was a decent breeze blowing.
the majority of the "sunny" winter days have fog till atleast late morning, and sometimes it sticks round all day.

[David]

Howick - a mostly cloudy start with a mild 11.1ºC low. Some sun broke through but there has been a layer of high cloud all day. Max of 14.9ºC. SW breeze has just turned SSE.

[ato2]

New Plymouth: sunny all day, don't think it has risen much over 12 degrees though

[Rwood]

Thanks. Ah - the fog factor. OK, but I'd still like to see a picture - it may still be slightly aggraved by other factors ... 

[JennyLeez]

Bitter cold southerly has not let up today.
High of 11.7 °C at 2.00ish and now heading back down again.
Blasting fire at one end of house and a Gas heater at the other

[Derek]

After a slightly grey start to the day, its cleared and cooling off quite rapidly in Waitakere.  Temperature is now dropping past the overnight low, currently at 7.7°C and falling at a rate of approx 1.4°C per hour at the moment.  Our high today was 13.6°C, just a few tenths off my forecast high of 14°C

[hayden.n]

Sunny but windy day here in Fairlie. Temperature peaked at 7.1 degrees.
Sitting 5c now with a light breeze which Should keep the frost away.

[Weather Display]

temperature dropping streadily here,now under 10C for the first time in a while
SE wind here now

[David]

Temperature steadily declining in Howick, down to 7.2°C now

[Te Puke Weather]

from The Metservice.
Today's high of 15 degrees was recorded in 3 places - Kaitaia, Paihia, Russell.

Today's lowest maximum temperature was 6 degrees and was recorded in 1 place - Hanmer Springs.
 

Town/City   Temp Kaitaia   15° Paihia   15° Russell   15° Dargaville   14° Whangarei   14° Auckland   12° Whitianga   13° Thames   12° Tauranga   13° Whakatane   13° Hamilton   12° Te Kuiti   12° Taumarunui   9° Rotorua   11° Tokoroa   11° Taupo   10° New Plymouth   13° Gisborne   13° Napier   14° Hastings   13° Napier Hastings   14° Dannevirke   11° Masterton   12° Wanganui   12° Palmerston North   12° Levin   13° Paraparaumu   13° Wellington   12° Motueka   13° Nelson   13° Blenheim   14° Kaikoura   10°

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