Local Weather Today – Thursday 3rd January 2013

[JennyLeez]

Report current or recent weather conditions at your location or elsewhere for Thursday the 3rd January below.

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[Te Puke Weather]

Conditions at Te Puke Weather Station local time 00:00 on 03 January 2013

Dawn: 05:28
Sunrise: 05:59
Moonrise: 23:42
Dusk: 21:11
Sunset: 20:40
Moonset: 11:12
Daylight: 15:43
Day length: 14:41
Moon Phase: Waning Gibbous

Temperature and Humidity
Temperature 17.0 °C
Dew Point 15.2 °C
Windchill 17.0 °C
Humidity 89%
Heat Index 17.0 °C
Apparent Temperature 18.5 °C

Rainfall
Rainfall Today 0.0 mm
Rainfall Rate 0.0 mm/hr
Rainfall This Month 0.0 mm
Rainfall This Year 0.0 mm
Rainfall Last Hour 0.0 mm
Last rainfall 2012-12-30 21:58

Wind
Wind Speed (gust) 2.5 km/h
Wind Speed (avg) 1.1 km/h
Wind Bearing 289° WNW
Beaufort F1 Light air

Pressure
Barometer 1010.9 hPa
Rising slowly 0.2 hPa/hr

[Hank13]

Ashburton @  07:02 AM
High Cloud
Rain finnish for time being
Currant Temp.  7.4°C   
Min Temp.6.6°C @  2:44 AM
Max Temp.11.8°C @12:00 AM
Rain  10.6 mm
Current wind. 7.6 km/h,NW
Max Gust.   38.0 km/h @ 12:38 AM

[TonyC]

Port Robinson, North Canterbury 7.50am

Fine morning with just a few fluffy clouds. Temperature 10.7° after a low of 8.3° with an expected high around 20°. Wind from the SE, gusty at times. Max gust in the last hour was 17kph. 24.8mm of rain over the last 24hrs.

[gabba]

Maungaraki Lower Hutt

High Cloud, but certainly much better than last night

26mm rainfall since midnight (29mm since rain started)/ MRR of 144mm/hr at 12:45am
Still NW, but now very light in contrast to yesterday

[gabba]

Stuff reports snow on Lindis Pass and surrounding hills of Timaru

In Central Otago this morning, an operation is underway to get people out of the Lindis Pass after a heavy snowfall.

Several cars had to be abandoned in the area and a police communications spokesman said the snow meant it was slow going on State Highway 8.

Snow had fallen to relatively low levels in parts of South Canterbury with hills surrounding Timaru receiving a coating.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8137608/Weather-chaos-affects-holidaymakers

[ato2]

New Plymouth: 16.5 degrees, sunny, light SW breeze.   28mm between 1am and around 5am. The rain came down quite heavily at times but the wind speed dropped down from around 70km/hr gusts to much less for the duration.

[Phil]

Belmont, Lower Hutt

15 degrees
76% Humidity
2 kph NW breeze
16 6 mm of rain between midnight and 2 am
Barometer on 1007.2
Solar 316

Rain arrived at midnight and lasted just on two hours, we have grey skies that are slowly brighting up, very little wind

[JennyLeez]

Wairoa at 09:55
Overcast, Windy and Warm.
The Over Night Temp Low was  20.2 °C
Current Temp Outside is  21.0 °C with Humidity  80 % and Dew Point  17.4 °C
Latest Wind Gust  28.1 km/h with speed of  15.8 km/h  N
Wind Chill is  21.0 °C
Baro  1006.3 hPa and Solar:  807

[JennyLeez]

2013 has begun with a bang with flooding, seriously high winds, snow but also high temperatures, sunshine and sea breezes.

The first couple of days of the new year have been all over the show but after today it could settle down...well for two or three days at the most.

Severe thunderstorm warnings were issued by MetService for Taranaki in the wee hours of this morning which is the same system that delivered al the heavy rain in the south.Westport also had a similar warning last night.

Cantabrians saw a thunder and lightning display late yesterday and also last night over parts of the province with areas of heavy showers.

Snow has also fallen to low levels across the south last night and very early this morning.Weather analyst Richard Green says the Crown Range and Lindis Pass saw a coating. "It didn't stop there either as the top of the foothills in Canterbury also saw a dusting" he said.

Today there's a chance of isolated heavy showers or thunderstorms over the east of the Mainland once more.
"There's potential for more activity later today as a disturbance is not set yet to move away entirely" according to Mr Green.

Aucklanders have seen a contrast with the weather after recent summery conditions and warm days and evenings.Showers have moved across the city and the temperature has dropped a few degrees as well. A clearance is likely later today with tomorrow and the weekend looking mostly settled.

So today it's looking generally cooler in most places and a bit of everything is expected yet again...ahhhh a Kiwi summer.
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[Suezy]

West Melton

It is coolish here this morning from the snow that was delivered to the hills.  We got three claps of thunder last night and that was it. Our rain total for the whole period was 6.6 in total - 4.4 prior to midnight and 2.2 after midnight. For what was predicted by Met Service and what we got was two totally different things. In fact if it were not for the 3 claps of thunder - you would not have noticed it.
I read what Jenny wrote regarfing Christchurch who evidentially got it but this is not the first time this has happened. Christchurch and West Melton seem to be in two different weather zones and the line seems to be at Kirk Road between the two areas.
It could have snowed very heavily here and none in Christchurch - the same with the rain - none here and pouring in town.  Strange but true as has happened on too many occasions.  I am not the only one that has noticed it either.


Temp 16.9
Wind gust 40.2 NE
Baro 1003.9
Rain since midnight 2.2mm
Rain MTD 6.6mm

[ato2]

New Plymouth: much cooler today- 18 degrees, some sun, some cloud. I harvested a small crop of potatoes that I threw in a while back.

[Sara]

Glenavy today.
Got a lot of rain last night. Had a big lake at the end of my drive.
Cleared now with part cloud and heat.
Wind from the east Approx.