InfoGraphic: The Big Picture for Saturday / Sunday
22/03/2019 2:00am
Mainly anticyclonic over New Zealand on Saturday with a light northerly quarter airflow draped over the country. This northerly airflow picks up a little on Sunday as anticyclonic conditions weaken a tad.
A shower or two for northeastern parts of the North Island on Saturday, mainly morning then the possibility of an isolated shower late afternoon / evening. Mainly dry for the South Island, there may be a shower about the lower South Island later in the day or overnight.
A shower or two possible again on Sunday morning for northeastern parts of the North Island then again the chance of an isolated shower in the afternoon / evening. Mainly sunny along the east coast, some cloud at times in the west. Generally dry for most of the South Island, a few showers about the lower South Island.
By Weather Analyst Aaron Wilkinson – WeatherWatch.co.nz
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LM on 22/03/2019 3:00am
No mention of a possible shower in the far south from any other source. Looking back to the 14th and the seven day rain maps for down here, they were way off!
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WW Forecast Team on 22/03/2019 4:15am
Were NIWA and MetService more accurate?
– WW
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LM on 22/03/2019 9:35am
NIWA are abysmal for their ‘forecast’ temps down here so I take any projected rainfall from them with a grain of sale and as for Metservice, their extended computer models always shows showers or rain. And I’ve noticed with Metservice, is that it’s more likely to be called ‘occasional rain’ in the south and ‘occasional showers’ for the north.
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WW Forecast Team on 22/03/2019 8:26pm
Will have to work on improving this. Southland is a very large region with a lot of fine details to forecasting, it’s perhaps one of the trickiest regions to accurately cover from one side to the other. In saying that, loads of places on earth are tricky so it’s not really an excuse that stands up forever. A work in progress LM.
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– WW
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