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What's with it? Well you may have noticed NZ and the UK are Islands, so unlike a on a continent (which creates friction) depressions bring strong winds off the sea with nothing to hinder them.... and, winter depressions are very weak in big continents because mild seas are best at fuelling them.
What's with it? Well you may have noticed NZ and the UK are Islands, so unlike a on a continent (which creates friction) depressions bring strong winds off the sea with nothing to hinder them.... and, winter depressions are very weak in big continents because mild seas are best at fuelling them.
Ah, I see. Because, I'm from an island originally as well and unless it was a hurricane, we never got strong winds like that. So, I was curious as to why, then I just came across the fact that Puerto Rico sits in the Doldrums, unlike the UK and NZ.
“More snow and howling southerly winds are expected to sweep across much of New Zealand today as one of the worst Antarctic storms to hit the country in decades continues to dish out biting cold temperatures and heavy snowfall.â€
“Metservice principal scientist Dr Mike Revell said the storm would be “up there with the one or two worst snow events†he was aware of since becoming a meteorologist in 1976.
“Yesterday it was rural areas of New Zealand that were the worst hit. For inland parts of north Canterbury, it was predicted about 50cm to 100cm of snow would fall during the storm.
“Much of that fell yesterday, although falls would continue into today.â€
“More snow and howling southerly winds are expected to sweep across much of New Zealand today as one of the worst Antarctic storms to hit the country in decades continues to dish out biting cold temperatures and heavy snowfall.â€
“Metservice principal scientist Dr Mike Revell said the storm would be “up there with the one or two worst snow events†he was aware of since becoming a meteorologist in 1976.
“Yesterday it was rural areas of New Zealand that were the worst hit. For inland parts of north Canterbury, it was predicted about 50cm to 100cm of snow would fall during the storm.
“Much of that fell yesterday, although falls would continue into today.â€
Just for your information - despite this storm the mean temps. for the country for June will come out at above average, though by less than it looked originally.
Of course the very warm temperatures (for June) experienced in the first half of the month don't make news ...
Had snow falling this morning but it vanished as soon as it hit the ground and had stopped snowing by 10 AM. The afternoon high was a mere 4 C today.
Temps forecast well below average for the rest of the month, but at least we appear to have a sunny spell coming up.
To think NIWA forecasted a mild winter... well, hopefully the other two-thirds will provide some compensation.
Repeat - the mean NZ temperature is ABOVE average so far this month and will not drop below despite this storm. Some central parts of the NI were more than 2C above MTD.
Definitely looked quite cool and showery in Sydney while I was watching the World Cup qualifier on tv. Some potential for good rain over the next few days there if things go your way.
Models are looking just a little better for Perth, maybe as much as 30mm over the next week but unlikely to penetrate far inland which would concern the farmers if this dry continues for the rest of the winter. At least May was good though seems to be a bit of a trend here to have one epic fail month a winter while the rest of the season is OK.
The current forecast, for your part of the world, (Perth Forecast) sure is looking nice . No doubt my best mate will be dribbling over it
Looking good for here too from Sunday (Sydney Forecast). Bring it on
Rose Bay has now, month to date, recorded 109.8mm of rain and Dover Heights 113.4mm
The city gauge has recorded just 75mm but then most of the rain and showers have been confined to the coastal suburbs with much lesser falls penetrating inland. Little Bay recorded 11mm to 9am today and I left home to go to work early this morning in the midst of a shower and upon arriving in the city - nothing
Meanwhile in SE QLD some pretty cold maximums were recorded with Brisbane recording 13.6C; airport 13.3; Beausdesert 12.9; Coolangatta 13.3; Redcliffe - my dad lived here for 5 years - 13.2 and Toowoomba with 10.4C.
In Wellington - and surrounds - NZ, southerlies reached storm force last night according to friends/relatives comments on Facebook - looked up stats via Metservice - airport 143km/hr; Kelburn 141km/hr; Mana Island 148km/hr; Brothers Island 181km/hr; Paraparaumu 104km//hr and Mount Kaukau recorded gusts over 200km/hr . Would have loved to experience that! How I love strong southerly flows
In Invercargill it's been very cold with sleety showers and even some snow flurries down to sea level but this is, so far, nothing compared to the September 2010 event.
Temps forecast well below average for the rest of the month
To think NIWA forecasted a mild winter... well, hopefully the other two-thirds will provide some compensation.
Can't be... a future forecast for something Mild? LOL! Be interesting to see how the month turns out with those well below normal temps. Keep us posted.
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. No doubt my best mate will be dribbling over it 
. Would have loved to experience that! How I love strong southerly flows 
