A nice fine day for a change, but the wind blew for a lot longer today than was originally predicted.  While we did have one or two cloudy periods this afternoon the shorts put in their first airing of the season, well the temperature was a reasonably sustained 20.6C, was even wearing the bare feet in the office this afternoon.  There was a good bank of cloud along the Kaimai's this afternoon, well for most of the day actually, and that obscured the sun for the latter part of the afternoon but it was not cold despite the wind.  We have had some good Wind Gusts here this week, just 53 km/hr today but earlier in the week we had two days in a row with a top wind gust of 62 km/hr.  Outdoor relative Humidity managed to sneak down to 48% today for the first time in quite a few days and actually spent over 60 hours earlier in the week glued to 99%.  The Barometer almost managed a day and a half of continual upward pressure but just before Midday today it ran out off puff, spent about 6 hours having an afternoon siesta and then got underway again just before 18:00 tonight.

High Temperature 20.6 °C at 14:57 
Low Temperature 12.6 °C at 05:44

High Humidity 97 % at 05:51 
Low Humidity 48 % at 14:56

Highest Gust 53 km/h at 16:55
Highest Speed (10 minute average) 37 km/h (F5) at 17:10
Wind Run 315.5 km   
Dominant Direction 230° SW

High Pressure (SL) 1014.7 hPa at 09:56
Low Pressure (SL) 1010.6 hPa at 00:11
 

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Tokoroa, Saturday 28th Sept

Breezy here - up to 50km/hr westerlies, temp 11deg, been to 14deg high.  Partly cloudy skies, not a bad day really...  some skiffs of light rain.

Mahia Beach

cloud cover ------ 35%
wind ------ light W
rain -------- nil
temp ------ 18.4 in  / 18.0 out