Local Weather Chat September 2013 Week 2

[JennyLeez]

Discuss the current or recent weather in your region or elsewhere for this week 9th to the 15th of September.

The main feature to watch for this week will be gale northwesterly winds which could affect many regions on Tuesday and Wednesday.

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[Mark]

A light Northwest wind here and air temp of 3.3c. Chch.

[Phil]

Belmont, Lower Hutt

Fine with a few scattered clouds about, a light NW breeze present, 10 degrees

[TonyC]

Port Robinson, North Canterbury 8.25am

A fine sunny morning with just a few clouds scattered out to sea. Temperature is 13.0° after a low of 9.6° and expected to reach around 14-15°. There's a variable wind from the NW with the maximum gust over the last hour recorded at 19kmh. No rain over the past 24hrs. Should remain fine for the rest of the day.

[JennyLeez]

Wairoa.

Nice sunny start to the day with 2.7 sunshines hours so far, lets hope it lasts.

Over night low 5.8°C and has climbed to 15.7°C

[TonyC]

Port Robinson 10.05am

Wind has now shifted round to S - ESE and the temperature has dropped to 9.6°. Heavy black clouds scudding around.

[JennyLeez]

You just keep them down there Tony.
I need my wall to wall blue right now.

I have 1 x flat battery on one vehicle
1 have 1 x flat tyre on the other.
My 2 feet worked though

[Deano]

Average day here. Getting windy. Max gust 42.6 km/h
12.9°C

[Deano]

Jenny, is the tyre completely flat, or only on the bottom? :-)

[Rex]

Mahia Beach

cloud cover ------ 0%
wind ------ light W
rain -------- nil
temp ------  16.1  in  / 14.6  out

[JennyLeez]

Now thats a good point Deano. Maybe I should move the van a little and then the air will spread out evenly in the tyre 

[TokWW]

Quite a strange or one off weather pattern at the moment with a large high initially of the Brisbane coast and stretching to north of NZ, is flat and wide and crushed by a stretched deep twin low, one centre just south of Tasmania and the other to the east of NZ, south of the Chathams.  Between these two major weather structures is a flat broad westerly airflow - strong and gale force in many places from north of NZ to the Auckland Islands. 

With advancing days, the High strengthens and reaches 1032hPa from 1024hPa. The very deep low reaches 940hpa when it concentrates.

By about Thursday, this weather condition has moved eastwards with maintained westerlies over the North Island but strong bitter sou-westerlies over the South Island.

 Another Low is following behind at the same lattitude so will force the winds back to westerly again, and the North Island to Norwesters and finer weather, calmer winds.  From then on it gets too changeable to forecast really.

[David]

Overall a reasonable day in Auckland. Some length sunny periods, but a bit windy.
There was a brief shower about 4.30pm. We reached 17°C today after a 10°C low.

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Monday 9th September 2013
Dawn: 05:58
Sunrise: 06:24
Moonrise: 08:10
Dusk: 18:27
Sunset:  18:01
Moonset: 21:51
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A fine day with quite a bit of cloud about but also some nice warming sunny periods, warm but we did not reach our maximum Temperature until Mid Afternoon.  Wind pattern today was almost a repeat of yesterday and is the 5th day in a row where the peak of both the maximum Wind Gust (Just 4 km/hr less than yesterdays 58 km/hr) and Wind Speed Mountains for the day has been at or close to Midday, Saturday was a bit of an exception in the repeating wind pattern in that we had another wind mountain that peaked around 18:00.  Outdoor Relative Humidity almost got down to Summer levels again today after briefly touching 99% at Midnight and has made it down to around 50% for three days in a row now.  Pressure today continued yesterdays late rally but flattened out for several hours either side of Midday but found some more puff around Mid Afternoon and has not looked back since, currently on 1019.5 hPa.

High Temperature 17.1 °C at 15:14 
Low Temperature 10.0 °C at 21:47

High Humidity 99 % at 00:00 
Low Humidity 53 % at 13:36

Highest Gust 54 km/h at 14:07
Highest Speed (10 minute average) 37 km/h (F5) at 10:43
Wind Run 306.7 km   
Dominant Direction 233° SW

High Pressure (SL) 1019.5 hPa at 21:47
Low Pressure (SL) 1013.2 hPa at 04:28


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[JennyLeez]

The South Island will be taking a battering today into tomorrow with forecast rainfall ranging from 200 to 300mm about the ranges. In addition severe gales are forecast for most of the east.

Meanwhile the lower North Island is expected to be hit by damaging gusts of up to 140km/hr.

Keep us informed weather watchers and lets hope you do not lose your power and/or your internet connection.

[Mark]

Northwest winds and a cool 3.3c sofar and high cloud.

[Phil]

Belmont, Lower Hutt

Sunny and not a cloud to be seen, 9 degrees and a NW wind increasing in intensity, currently 27 kph and gusting up to 48 kph, Barometer on 1013.4

[Deano]

Very calm morning here, almost no wind so far.
10.7°
Mostly Cloudy.

[TonyC]

Port Robinson, North Canterbury 8am

Typical Canterbury NW morning. High cloud cover all over with thin sunlight. The wind is blowing pretty steadily 11-18kmh with the max gust at 43kmh a few minutes ago. Not a day for doing much outside I fancy with gale force winds predicted. Temperature is 13.8° at the moment after a low of 10.7° and expected to reach 16-17°.

[Hank13]

Light Breeze,13 temp.