Your Local Weather Wednesday 21st March 2012

[JennyLeez]

Report current or recent weather conditions at your location or elsewhere for Wednesday the 21st of March below.
You do not need a weather station, just look out your window.

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[Tony]

Conditions for South Hill, Oamaru
21 Mar 2012 11:14 AM

Observations: Sunny, Pressure Falling Slowly
Another day of brilliant sunshine, can't believe it! A bit cool in the wind.

Overnight low: 6.60 °C
Current Temperature: 13.3°C (2.0)
Humidity: 70% (-7)
Dew Point: 8.0°C (0.5)
Wind Chill: 13.2°C (2.0)
Wind: 6.5 km/h (1.4) N
Wind Gust: 7.6 km/h (1.4)
Pressure: 1019.0 hPa (-0.7)
Hourly Rain: 0.00 mm/h (0.00)
Rain Today: 0.00 mm

(Figures in brackets indicate 1 hour change)

[Suezy]

West Melton 11.52am

Full sunshine and blue sky
Temp 14.3
Wind gust 30.6 E
Humidity 66%
Bara 1020.2 and falling
No rain

[ato2]

New Plymouth: 21 degrees, sunny but with some cloud. Quite humid, light SE breeze

[OhauitiWeather]

Conditions at local time 12:00 on 21 March 2012

Temperature and Humidity
Temperature   20.4 °C
Dew Point    18.4 °C
Windchill   20.4 °C
Humidity   88%
Heat Index   20.4 °C
Apparent Temperature   21.6 °C
Solar Radiation   0 W/m²
Evapotranspiration Today   0.00 mm

Rainfall
Rainfall Today   21.6 mm
Rainfall Rate   0.0 mm/hr
Rainfall This Month   135.0 mm
Rainfall This Year   312.4 mm
Rainfall Last Hour   0.0 mm
Last rainfall   2012-03-21 06:53

Wind
Wind Speed (gust)   22 km/h
Wind Speed (avg)   9 km/h
Wind Bearing   39° NE
Beaufort F2   Light breeze

Pressure
Barometer    1007.8 hPa
Rising slowly   0.0 hPa/hr

Observation:
Overcast and Humid (88%) with East to North Easterly Breeze.  Barometer steady. Raining on the Kaimai Ranges.

[Deano]

Kaipara Harbour at 13:35
Current Conditions: Overcast, Damp
Over Night Temp: 17.7°C at 5:30
Rain since Midnight: 2.0 mm
Current Temp Outside: 18.5°C
Dew Point: 17.9°C
Wind Speed: 8.0 km/h
Wind Direction: N
Max Gust: 30.6 km/h at 4:50
Humidity:  96% Rising
Pressure: 1007.6 hPa Dropping

[JennyLeez]

Wairoa at 16:12
Overcast, Mainly Calm and Mild.
The Over Night Temp Low was  17.1 °C
Rainfall of  3.6 mm since midnight.
Rainfall last 24 hours 17.7 mm
Current Temp Outside is  21.3 °C with Humidity  97%  and Dew Point  20.8 °C
Latest Wind Gust  5.0 km/h with speed of  1.1 km/h  S
Wind Chill is  21.3 °C
Baro  1010.7 hPa and Solar:  588

[JennyLeez]

from The Metservice.
Today's highest temperature was 28 at Murchison.
Today's lowest maximum temperature was 14 at Wellington and Kaikoura.

Kaitaia : 21 Whangarei : 21 Auckland : 21 Tauranga : 22 Hamilton : 22 Whakatane : 21 Gisborne : 23 New Plymouth : 23 Napier : 20 Hastings : 22 Wanganui : 27 Rotorua : 19 Tokoroa : 20 Taupo : 20 Palmerston North : 24 Levin : 25 Kapiti : 24 Masterton : 20 Wellington : 14 Nelson : 25

Nelson : 25 Blenheim : 19 Westport : 27 Greymouth : 27 Hokitika : 25 Christchurch : 17 Timaru : 18 Oamaru : 17 Alexandra : 24 Queenstown : 19 Dunedin : 19 Dunedin Airport : 23 Invercargill : 20 Kaikoura : 14 Ashburton : 18 Milford Sound : 21 Haast : 20 Manapouri Aero AWS : 21 Lake Rotoiti : 20 Molesworth : 21

[OhauitiWeather]

I think this means rain, rain and more rain 

[ato2]

New Plymouth: 23 degrees, some Sun, humid, fair amount of cloud, a little drizzle. Very light winds.

[einzack]

reached 28.8°C in Reefton today. an absolute scorcher.
still 28.4°C at the moment. am sure it'll cool down quickly once the sun goes behind the hills.

the Reefton NIWA site reached 31.4°C which is actually the highest temp recorded all summer....

[WoodyZ]

Just hit by a 64.4 kmh gust of wind - and we are quite sheltered here.

[JennyLeez]

10.40pm
Drizzle beginning after a relatively dry day.
Very sticky on 19.4

[JennyLeez]

Updated 10:32pm ---  As exclusively predicted by WeatherWatch.co.nz yesterday gale force winds have impacted some parts of the North Island tonight.

But while the gales were predicted by WeatherWatch the strength of the wind has been higher for some areas and much lower for others.

"The low didn't quite get enough oomph to push gales across Auckland, where conditions have been fairly calm today, however strong to damaging gusts have occurred in the eastern Waikato, Coromandel Peninsula, western Bay of Plenty and Rotorua this evening with blustery winds in some coastal parts of Northland" says head weather analyst Philip Duncan.  "We did expect gales but weren't expecting them to cause very much damage".

WeatherWatch.co.nz's Facebook page has had dozens of comments from readers tonight with reports of trees down, power cuts and surges and suggestions of a rough nights sleep ahead.

"The strongest gusts are in places like Te Aroha, in the eastern Waikato, Mount Maunganui, Rotorua and Levin" says Mr Duncan, pointing out that the geography of the North Island ranges is playing a major role in why some areas have gales and some regions in between are calm.

Rain cleared in Auckland around 9pm following several hours of tropical downpours.  Northland also received heavy rain south of Whangarei.

WeatherWatch.co.nz readers reported surface flooding right across Auckland city, made worse by a saturated ground from Monday's deluge.  However criteria wasn't met for MetService to issue a rain warning.
http://www.weatherwatch.co.nz

[hbweather]

Overcast, with a few brief light showers in the early morning, then drizzle or Haar for the rest of the day, with visibility down to 500mtrs at times. Light SE breeze, and mild pm temps. Light rain starting from around 2000, with the wind backing ENE and freshening steadily.