[Derek]

NZ Weather Reports for Tuesday 27th July, 2010. Please post your weather observations in this thread. If the weather is changeable, you may want to update us more than once throughout the day. If the weather becomes significant - ie high winds, heavy rain, thunderstorms etc, you may want to consider starting a new topic to record this special event. This topic is open to everyone within New Zealand. You can take a look out of the window, read your garden thermometer or if you have a weather station, post the current data. Taking part is the important thing, as the topics keep an interesting record of the weather conditions throughout the day from around the country. Please remember to post a location with your report as your profile location may change in time.

[ATO2]

Partly cloudy, 10.2 degrees, wind from the West, around 15km/hr

[Kimkliff]

Morning all

Wet here at the moment - another 7.4mm since midnight. Warm at 10 degrees tho'. Barometer been falling rapidly, now 1011.0 and still going downhttp://www.nzweather.net/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/icon_biggrin.gif

Enjoy your Tuesday everyone.

[Derek]

Current conditions at Waitakere, 07.15 am

Overnight low temperature: 6.3°C
Current temperature: 8.8°C
Dew Point: 8.4°C
Humidity: 97%
Barometer: 1020.1 hPa (steady)
Rain: 0.6 mm (yesterday 9.4 mm, burst of pea size hail at 9.30 pm)

Observations: Partly to mostly cloudy, looks like there are likely to be some heavy showers about

[RWood]

Bright clear start, hope to enjoy a few hours of sun before the promised S/SW change.

[Phil]

A clear bright start to the day, temp on 8.3 degrees, light wind from the NW at 3 kph, barometer steady on 1003

[HairyMcLeary]

Current conditions for South Hill, Oamaru - 27 Jul 2010 08:35

Temperature: 5.5°C (-0.3)
Humidity: 91%
Dew Point: 4.2°C (-0.4)
Wind Chill: 5.5°C (-0.3)
Wind: 3.2 km/h (-0.1) South
Wind Gust: 4.0 km/h (-4.0)
Pressure: 1008.9 hPa (1.0)
Hourly Rain: 0.00 mm/h (-0.51)
Rain Today: 3.11 mm

Observations: Cloudy, sun is trying to break through after a few heavy showers through the night, light winds, Pressure Rising Rapidly

[DXer]

Current Conditions Kakanui, North Otago at 9.00am

* Air Temp: 6.5c
* Wind Chill: -6.5c
* Dew Point: 5.3c
* Pressure: 1009.7hPa
* Humidity: 92%
* Wind Speed: 1.1kph
* Wind Direction: W
* Daily Rain: 2.1

* Total Rain 385.8mm
* Observation: Cloudy with quite a bright sun shinning through. Looks like the rain has gone.

[Suezy]

WEST MELTON

Air Temp =8.7
Wind Chill =6.4
Dew Point =5.3
Wind Speed kmh=8.0
Wind Max Gust=46.7
Windspeed Avg=14.5
Wind Direction=WSW
Rain from Midnight=0
Barometer =1008.8
Humidity =79
Solar Rad=86

Have a GREAT DAY EVERYONE

[Babs]

It's a mean looking day on the hill-top, I was going to mow the lawns but shall go visit the doctor instead :icon_biggrin:

[Sara]

Yesterdays High 15.4C
O/N Low 4.6C

Current Conditoins

Temperature 7.5C
Humidity 94%
Barometer 1011.1hPa
Wind Direction SW
Wind Speed 1.1km/h
Wind Gust 2.5km/h
Wind Chill 7.5C
Dew Point 6.6C
Rain O/N 2.7mm

Observation: Cloud clearing. sunny, mild. Another lovelt day in Paradise.

This post has been edited by Sara: 27 July 2010 - 10:26 AM

[JennyLeez]

Wairoa Conditions
Current Conditions: Sunny, Calm and Cool.
Over Night Temp: 4.6 °C 05:30
Rain since Midnight: 0.0 mm
Rain Rate Now: 0.0 mm/hr
Current Temp Outside: 15.2 °C
Current Temp Inside: 17.4 °C
Wind Speed: 9.7 km/h
Wind Direction: NW
Wind Chill: 15.2 °C
Humidity: 58%
Pressure: 1013.6 hPa

[ATO2]

New Plymouth: 14.2 degrees, sunny, some cloud, couple of light showers earlier. Westerly wind, moderate.

[Phil]

Southerly has arrived, temp down to 6 degrees, rain has also arrived, has become quite dull

[ATO2]

dropped a little, now down to 12.1 degrees, more cloud than Sun

[Derek]

Current conditions at Waitakere, 6.50 pm

Today's high temperature: 14.7°C
Current temperature: 11.2°C
Dew Point: 10.1°C
Humidity: 93%
Barometer: 1017.3 hPa (steady)
Rain: 2.0 mm

Observations: partly cloudy to mostly cloudy through the day, some sunny periods too. Becoming a little showery, brief and heavy falls sometimes.

[hbweather]

Fine and sunny at first, then cloud began to increase slowly from around mid-morning. Sunny periods in the early pm gave way to more generally cloudy conditions by dusk. Light variable breeze at first, then freshening SW to WSW wind, backing SSW later and becoming gusty. Mild pm temps.

Today's data can be viewed at:

http://www.wundergro...sp?ID=IHAWKESB4

Cheers all,

George

[rainfan]

This July - ending 26th - is certainly throwing up some interesting statistics in terms of sunshine (sunnier than usual):

Auckland: 135 hours
Wellington: 103
Invercargill: 103

[RWood]

rainfan, on 27 July 2010 - 08:30 PM, said:

This July - ending 26th - is certainly throwing up some interesting statistics in terms of sunshine (sunnier than usual):

Auckland: 135 hours
Wellington: 103
Invercargill: 103

Due to the continuing easterly bias - very sunny in New Plymouth. Refer to Temp MTD, rain MTD and sun MTD at Climate Explorer and it's obvious:

https://secure.niwa....xplorer/home.do

[rainfan]

RWood, on 27 July 2010 - 09:06 PM, said:

Due to the continuing easterly bias - very sunny in New Plymouth. Refer to Temp MTD, rain MTD and sun MTD at Climate Explorer and it's obvious:

https://secure.niwa....xplorer/home.do

NP's total (ending 27th) 142 hrs. Auckland's on 141 now, WGT 104, CHC 106 and IVC 107.

Days of NIL sun MTD ending 27th:

AKL: 4
NP: 4
WGT: 9
CHC: 6
IVC: 3

This post has been edited by rainfan: 28 July 2010 - 07:46 PM