Local Weather Today - Friday 17th August 2012

[JennyLeez]

Report current or recent weather conditions at your location or elsewhere for Friday 17th August below.
You do not need a weather station, just look out your window and tell us what is going on above you.

If your conditions change, let us know. We will keep our Twitter, Google + and Facebook followers informed during the day.

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[Phil]

Belmont, Lower Hutt

8.7 degrees
97% Humidity
Calm
Unknown Rain
Barometer on 1013.2
Solar 39

A damp calm dreary morning, no improvement expected

[Rwood]

Belmont, Lower Hutt[/b]

8.7 degrees
97% Humidity
Calm
Unknown Rain
Barometer on 1013.2
Solar 39

A damp calm dreary morning, no improvement expected

Forecast promises improvement, but I'm deeply sceptical.

[Hank13]

Ashburton @  08:29 AM
Foggy
Currant Temp.  6.2°C   
Current wind. 3.8 km/h,WSW
Currant Grass Min. 2.9°C

[JennyLeez]

Wairoa at 09:00
NIce start to Friday, Sunny, Light Breeze and Mild.
The Over Night Temp Low was  9.1 °C
Rainfall of  0.0
Current Temp Outside is  15.4 °C
Latest Wind Gust  14.8 km/h with speed of  14.8 km/h  NW
Baro  1013.0 hPa and Solar:  310

[TonyC]

Port Robinson, North Canterbury 9am

Another grey overcast morning. SAD syndrome symptoms setting in..... though the sun did appear for 111 minutes yesterday.
Temperature 9.1° with a slight SSE breeze. No rain last 24 hours.

[JohnR]

At 9am:

Fine day with some cloud and no wind

Temperature: 16.1C

Humidity: 87%

Absolute Pressure: 1004.3

Rainfall for 24hrs to 9am: 0.5mm

Overnight low: 4.6C

[Mark]

Cloudy again  in Bishopdale Chch with a wind from the west at11km/h.
Air temp=6.4c.

[deepsouthweather]

Invercargill, 1038hrs

Another mostly fine day in the deep south, Just a bit of high cloud light breeze from the North and temp 10.2c and rising.

[Sara]

Sea fog lifting, sunis shining through.
Temperature 10.4C
Humidity 92%
Barometer 1014.6hPa
Wind Direction S
Wind Speed 2.5km/h

Nice day yesterday until the sea fog came down again around 4pm.

[TonyC]

Port Robinson 12.40pm

Sun is shining!! Temperature still only 10.9° with a SE wind around 6kmh.

[JennyLeez]

Been a great day on the coast. Things are a wee bit drier, well the concrete is
High of 18.2.
Pity I have been stuck inside all day

[Suezy]

West Melton

After cloud cleared the sun was shining for most of the day.
Temp now 8.3 and high today 10.9
Wind gust 20.9
Baro 1013.9
Rain/dew 0.2

[Mark]

We had some sun today about 2 hours Suezy.
Its got colder as day gone by.
Air temp now=7.2c

[OhauitiWeather]

A mix of sunny areas and some cloud over the North Island today after any morning showers clear in the west and about central areas, winds will be light from the west or northwest. About Wairarapa expect a few showers with southwesterly winds clearing in the afternoon, a few showers clear in Wellington by midday with sunny breaks then increasing. Later at night a few showers move onto the west coast north of Taranaki. Some morning fog about Waikato is possible and fog may form again at night there and in the Central North Island.

A mix of sunny areas and some cloud over the South Island, however expect fog in many places this morning but slowly breaking to some sun during the morning. Fog is likely to develop again at night in many areas. The odd drizzle patch may pester Fiordland mainly in the morning and any morning showers near the coasts in Buller and about Kaikoura clear with sunny spells increasing.

High’s today around 16 in Auckland, up to 17 in Northland. Mid teen high’s elsewhere and perhaps a degree or two cooler about Wellington, the Wairarapa and Central North Island. High’s of 12 to 13 in most South Island regions, about Nelson and Marlborough however 14 to 15 can be expected. If fog hangs around in some South Island areas for longer during the day this will naturally keep temperatures rather cool.

WeatherWatch.co.nz
http://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/content/friday%E2%80%99s-national-forecast-5

[OhauitiWeather]

It’s quite settled over New Zealand today however there is also a lot of cloud about, partly due to moisture that is hanging around having been left from a low now out to our east. As a result of this moisture it’s quite foggy particularly in Canterbury, in Christchurch the fog has managed to lift a little so far so now we’ll call it a cloudy sky. Hopefully a few sunny breaks peel through this afternoon, by evening the fog will more then likely lower back down so if you flying out from the airport tomorrow here or flying in keep an eye on conditions.

It’s not all cloudy everywhere though, parts of Otago, the West Coast of the South Island, Hawkes Bay, Gisborne and Northland have mostly sunny skies right now. The temperature in Northland is hitting 18 degrees currently making it the warmest in the country today. Southland even being as far south as it is, is not doing badly right now. Invercargill is on 14 degrees. The coldest temperatures last night went to parts of Central Otago which were around –1.

Winds are generally light tending southwesterly in the South Island, west to southwesterly winds in the North Island are a little breezier but still not too bad.


By weather analyst Aaron Wilkinson, WeatherWatch.co.nz
http://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/content/settled-cloudy-some-regions

[JennyLeez]

Weather Alert
An active area of thunderstorms and torrential rain is moving in towards the upper North Island from the Tasman Sea this evening says WeatherWatch.co.nz.
The band of heavy rain may break up in some areas, as they tend to do when they move off the sea and on to land, but heavy downpours with thunder are expected late this evening and overnight.
Head weather analyst Philip Duncan says areas most exposed are Waikato and Waitomo with Auckland and southern parts of Northland also expected to receive heavy downpours and a few thunderstorms.  "Looking at the satellite maps and live lightning tracker it looks as though the line of heavy rain, showers and thunderstorms will reach the west coast shortly before midnight then spread elsewhere in the early hours of Saturday".
Mr Duncan says Coromandel Peninsula, Great Barrier Island and Bay of Plenty may have a few rumbles and heavy showers during Saturday morning.
The thunderstorms aren't widespread, so not everyone will get thunder, but the lightning tracker is detecting several areas of activity out to the west.
The free and live lightning tracker has detected a few hundred strikes in the past 60 minutes.
Motorists are advised to be aware of possible surface water/flooding and limited visibility in downpours and isolated hail.

[Te Puke Weather]

from The Metservice.
Today's high of 18 degrees was recorded in 3 places - Paihia, Russell, Whangarei.

Today's lowest maximum temperature was 9 degrees and was recorded in 1 place - Mount Cook.
 

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

Reefton   11° Westport   15° Greymouth   14° Hokitika   14° Milford Sound   12° Christchurch   12° Ashburton   11° Oamaru   12° Timaru   12° Mount Cook   3° Alexandra   11° Queenstown   11° Wanaka   10° Dunedin   11° Gore   12° Invercargill   12° Hanmer Springs   6° Tuatapere   11° Riverton   11° Wyndham   13° Nightcaps   12° Winton   12° Te Anau   11°