Today’s Weather at Ohauiti Weather
Conditions at local time 00:20 on 28 September 2012

Temperature and Humidity
Temperature   12.8 °C   
Dew Point    8.1 °C
Windchill   11.4 °C   
Humidity   73%
Heat Index   12.8 °C   
Apparent Temperature   9.5 °C

Rainfall
Rainfall Today   0.0 mm   
Rainfall Rate   0.0 mm/hr
Rainfall This Month   102.7 mm   
Rainfall This Year   1348.5 mm
Rainfall Last Hour   0.0 mm   
Last rainfall   2012-09-27 06:09

Wind
Wind Speed (gust)   27 km/h   
Wind Speed (avg)   15 km/h
Wind Bearing   116° ESE   
Beaufort F3   Gentle breeze

Pressure
Barometer    1015.2 hPa   
Falling   -0.5 hPa/hr

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Belmont, Lower Hutt

11.2 degrees
98% Humidity
Calm
Nil Rain ( 1.6mm yesterday)
Barometer on 1020.0
Solar 130

An overcast day, calm and dry

Wairoa at 08:28
Drizzle, Calm and Coolish.
The Over Night Temp Low was  11.4 °C
Rainfall of  2.1 mm since midnight.
Rainfall last 24 hours 2.1 mm
Current Temp Outside is  13.3 °C with Humidity  89 % and Dew Point  11.5 °C
Latest Wind Gust  24.5 km/h with speed of  19.4 km/h  SE
Wind Chill is  12.6 °C
Baro  1015.7 hPa and Solar:  484

Norfolk Island - overnight 17.8mm of rain, between 6 -9am had 8mm.
Thought it was heavy rain.  Now the sun is shinning

foggy morning cleared to a warm & sunny day. 19.8°C with a light NE breeze

Today’s Weather at Ohauiti Weather
Conditions at local time 19:00 on 28 September 2012

Temperature and Humidity
Temperature   16.7 °C   
Dew Point    13.4 °C
Windchill   16.7 °C   
Humidity   81%
Heat Index   16.7 °C   
Apparent Temperature   17.3 °C

Rainfall
Rainfall Today   0.0 mm   
Rainfall Rate   0.0 mm/hr
Rainfall This Month   102.7 mm   
Rainfall This Year   1348.5 mm
Rainfall Last Hour   0.0 mm   
Last rainfall   2012-09-27 06:09

Wind
Wind Speed (gust)   13 km/h   
Wind Speed (avg)   3 km/h
Wind Bearing   122° ESE   
Beaufort F1   Light air

Pressure
Barometer    1008.2 hPa   
Rising slowly   +0.4 hPa/hr


Today's data

Temperature and Humidity
High Temperature   22.5 °C   at 12:15
Low Temperature   12.5 °C   at 01:57
Temperature Range   10.0 °C   
High Apparent Temperature   21.4 °C   at 12:38
Low Apparent Temperature   6.9 °C   at 06:06
Low Wind Chill   10.3 °C   at 01:57
High Heat Index   22.5 °C   at 12:15
High Humidity   90 %   at 17:21
Low Humidity   52 %   at 12:20
Hours of Sunshine   0.0   

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 Last Dry Day   2   
Days Since It Last Rained   0   

Wind
Highest Gust   60 km/h   at 09:28
Highest Speed (10 minute average)   40 km/h (F6)   at 09:28
Wind Run   289.4 km   
Dominant Direction   126° SE   

Pressure
High Pressure (SL)   1015.4 hPa   at 00:00
Low Pressure (SL)   1006.3 hPa   at 14:39

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I think today is the first time I’ve seen a part of the North Island except on the east coast where the temperature has got above 20 degree’s so far this spring. Perhaps a few other places have been close or around the same level in the last week or two but they must’ve escaped my attention.

Whakatane is currently on 21.4 degrees and is the warmest place around the country at present. The front associated with the low pressure system currently just at the tip of the North Island has cleared northeastern areas of the North Island and moved southwards. In behind a lot of warm humid air has come in resulting in very nice temperatures.

It’s the type of situation where thunderstorms could pop up if enough heating got going at the surface and should they happen heavy downpours would be likely due to the humid nature of the air. Only issue today is there is a fair amount of warming in the middle of the atmosphere which may prevent any storms from happening, sort of like a lid really and won’t allow convection to take place.

Still, even though the main front has cleared and is moving a bit further south some areas are still quite cloudy like Auckland for e.g. with lower level cloud shrouding the city. Northland has received the most rain around the country for the previous 24 hours with 52.2mm of rain falling in Opouteke. The areas hit second hardest were the ranges of Hawkes Bay and Gisborne with 20 to 25mm of rain falling with this front

The South Island is mostly sunny today although east to northeast winds are a little cool along the east coast, Ashburton being a little more sheltered and further inland is warmer on 16 to 17 degrees whereas Christchurch city is on 13 to 14 at the moment.

My thunderstorm senses are coming together for Monday 1st October next week, it does look like a better opportunity for Canterbury then the recent window of opportunity mid this week on Wednesday so we will be keeping an eye on it here at WeatherWatch.co.nz.


By weather analyst Aaron Wilkinson, WeatherWatch.co.nz
http://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/content/bay-plenty-warming