Reports: Weather reports for August 5th, 2008

[ATO2]

New Plymouth, 6am: 8 degrees, SW at 8km/hr. Partly cloudy, can see Orion in the eastern sky, maybe a mix of light rain and Sun for the next couple of hours.

[windy]

early morning hail shower here

[TokWW]

Gosh - that looks like a cold front coming through, it's on the 6am isobaric, which uses 4am data, shown to be 100kms or so east off the Northland coast at 4am..., hmmm 25kms/hr possible I guess.

Fine partly cloudy spring morning here (wish the solar sensor was up on the roof to see it!!) and its going to be a nice day, southerly tonight they said - another clear sky tonight perhaps... 3.6ºC minimum this morning. More later.

[ATO2]

Warmed up nicely with a sunny day. I am looking forward to seeing the solar readings when your system is up and running.

[ATO2]

Originally Posted by windy

early morning hail shower here

Actually, I was surprised that we didn't get some hail, in the early hours.SWly flow and all that.

[TokWW]

Tokoroa - 10:20 Tuesday 5th
Overnight Low last night: 3.6ºC @ 07:50am
Current temp: 7.8ºC @ 10:20
Dew Point:7.2ºC @ 10:20
Humidity: 96%, clearing skies
Rainfall 4th: 4.1mm
Wind gust: 8.0kts (14.7km/hr @ 10:17)
Max 1m Ave: 4.7kts (8.7km/hr (10:18)
Current 10min ave = 2.7kts (14.7km/hr).
Wind Dircn: W
Sky Condition - partly cloudy
Visibility: 5km
Baro: 1017.1; +2.5hPa /6hrs, rising slowly.

It's going to be a nice early Spring day!

[ATO2]

12 degrees, sunny, 8km/hr WNW

[RWood]

Sunny from midmorning, decidely cool, dusting on the Orongorongos.

I hope Blue Skies' August part of its 3-month outlook (Aug-Oct) is "wrong" - suggesting more depressions before a likely return to westerlies in September.

[ATO2]

I hope they are wrong too!We deserve a break from all this stuff! Stayed sunny until around 4.30pm. Coolish though, not much over 13 degrees.

[TokWW]

RWood - Bob McDavitt has made a similar comment as reported in Stuff.co.nz and in The Press - originally. I made a copy of the article in August storms thread, NZ Climate.