Local Weather Chat July 2014 Week 2

[Derek]

Blurgh... it continues

My WXSIM forecast for tonight and tomorrow, plus the 4 day graphic representation...

Tonight
 Cloudy in the evening, becoming dense overcast after midnight. Rain likely. Precipitation showery or intermittent. Low 12°. Wind northeast around 31 kph, gusting to 47 kph. Chance of precipitation 80 percent. Precipitation mostly between 30 and 50 mm.

Saturday
Dense overcast in the morning, becoming partly cloudy in the afternoon. Patchy light fog. Rain likely in the morning, then a slight chance of rain in the afternoon. High 14°. Wind northeast around 20 kph, gusting to 37 kph, in the morning, becoming west-northwest around 12 kph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 80 percent. Precipitation mostly around 20 mm.

[Phil]

Belmont, Lower Hutt

8.6 degrees
90% Humidity
2kph NW wind
nil Rain
barometer on 1014.2
Solar 0

Fine with a few scattered clouds

[Derek]

Waitakere:

We've not had the volume of rain that was expected, but it is raining steadily at the moment, but it has gone calm - wind has dropped completely to nothing at 6 am,  the trees and bush are are still and not moving at all for the first time in probably 5 days.

Current conditions:
Temperature 10.8°C
Humidity 97%
Baro 1012.4 hPa rising
Rain 13.0 mm (raining now)

[ato2]

Wet in New Plymouth, 13 degrees,gloomy day- different to yesterday's 17 degrees and sunshine.

[TonyC]

Port Robinson, North Canterbury - Current weather conditions at 08:50 AM on the 12/07/14

Current conditions are overcast and windy

The overnight temperature low was 10.8°C timed at 3:04 AM
The outside temperature presently is 11.4°C
The windchill temperature is 10.4°C
The wind is currently blowing from SSW at a speed of 10 km/h
The strongest wind gust in the LAST HOUR was at 29.6 kmh NNW and the average windspeed in the last hour was 7.1 km/h
The strongest wind gust TODAY so far was at 29.6 km/h at 8:31 AM
The barometer reading is at 1007.4 hpa and Steady at the rate of -0.2hPa/hr
Since midnight there has been 0.0 mm of precipitation.
So far this month there have been 5 days when it has rained at some time during the 24hr period with amount totalling 10.0 mm

The solar reading is 43 % with an energy ready of 40W/M2.
00:00 hours of sunshine recorded so far today and overall conditions based on the solar sensor described as Cloudy/Dry

An updated version of this report produced every 15 minutes can be viewed at:- http://www.portrobinson.net/Weatherfiles/wx3.html

[Hank13]

Ashburton @ 09:17 AM
 Currant Temp.is now 10.3°C with cloud cover but have a NW arch signalling wind. Current wind is now 7.6 km/h,NNE
 Baro is 1006.1 hpa (Falling slowly)
 

[David]

Yeah, a little less rain than expected. Howick has had 24 mm in the past 24 hours.
Average wind speed is finally down around the 5 km/h mark 

[JennyLeez]

Now on 10 consecutive days without rain although I see from the forecast this could alter tonight.

Currently a mild 14.6°C but overcast and dull.

[Rex]

mahia beach

overcast
cloud cover ------ 90%
wind ------  lite  NW
rain --------  showers
temp ------ 16.3 in  / 14.4 out

[Derek]

Rain has eluded us to a large extent 19.8 mm in past 24 hours, there's just a puff of breeze now.
Actually also looking a bit brighter too.

[Derek]

10 consecutive days[/color] without rain although I see from the forecast this could alter tonight.
I see your YTD is about 522 mm, is that around normal?
Despite the recent rain we've been having, we're still about 200 mm down on YTD average here in Waitakere.

[David]

We ended up with 35 mm since midnight, making for a total of 39 mm.