Weather Forecast for Blenheim

Good morning, it's still in our news feed but wasn't on the homepage at the time you checked (It's back again now). You can find it here.

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WW

Hi there, you're not the only one having issues with the new MetService site so welcome along to WeatherWatch :)

We have quite a few Hastings observations (click the image to load our observations page).

As for historical - the NZ Government blocks open data (in other words, MetService and Niwa take all our taxes, build weather stations with it for their own profits, then block any of the taxpayers from openly using that data they originally paid for. (no other country on earth does it this way). So it means we have limited historical data...FOR NOW. We are working with IBM to change this - and the Commerce Commission is now investigating this bad behaviour from MetService and Niwa, so we hope to be able to share more data NZers have already paid for in the near future. They are holding on to the data because they cannot compete with ideas and innovation - it's a way to hold us back. 

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WW

Good morning and thanks very much for giving us a go. It's the third time in a decade MetSerivce has spent millions revamping their look. At first we used to complain about what a waste of public money that was - now we enjoy gaining new followers from their changes :)  Glad to have your support!!

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WW Team :)

Hi there, this storm will have passed by then - and even next week when it's near NZ it's unlikely to affect Auckland too much. All the best and keep an eye on our 10 day forecasts :)
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WW

Hi there, thanks so much for the supplrt, it means a great deal to us all!
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WW Team :) 

Not common like every day or anything but in the big scheme of things Christchurch does get strong NW winds from time to time, especially in the spring. So yeah it's fine.

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Aaron

Hi there

That depends where for exactly. If you go to the metservice website, each center has a section called "past weather". You can click on that and find info for the last 30 days.

Any more then that and you will need to contact Metservice directly or NIWA.

Hoep that helps.

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Aaron

Hi and thanks for the questions. In NZ there is no single day that is the "official" start to a season. The meteorological start is on December 1st, the astrological start is Dec 22 this year and Mother Nature has already brought summer temperatures and summer rainfall into some regions, although much of the South Island is still caught up in a spring pattern (which is fairly normal as the Southern Ocean is stormy until late December). To get a December storm in NZ is fairy common - but the month isn't usually overly unsettled with more high pressure rolling in. 

Next week the storm in the Southern Ocean is big - but still a big chunk of NZ may not be overly impacted severely with more hot, sunny, weather in some places.

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WW

Easy solution - just use our forecast for Hastings instead? Or even your suburb within Hastings. There's a reason why we exist :) 

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WW

G'day there

7th of December is quite a we way away but currently it's looking like just a light westerly, so hopefully yes conditions will be good for you then.

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Aaron

Thanks for the nice comment! :)

Auckland will always / often have breezy southwesterly winds, much like Christchurch can get a fresh easterly to spoil a nice summers day.

Only thing is Christchurch has the Southern Alps to the west giving warm days when the wind comes from that direction.

Hopefully a nice still day coming your way soon :)

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Aaron

Hi there, we had a bit of sou'west change this week which did pull in some colder air. Hard to notice it during the day with all the sunshine, but at night with clear skies and light winds the colder air is sinking. The South Island has already had this colder air flushed away by warm nor'westers, the North Island will see the overnight lows lift up this weekend.

Here's tonight's map for you - and thanks for the support, we look forward to growing our forecasting services in 2020 starting with seasonal/climate updates which we will put our for the first time next week. It's designed to be quite simplistic and we look forward to feedback on it as we progress through 2020 :)

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WW

Hi there,

They are basically all forecasting for a very similar location but the best one is probably the first one that comes up as Waitomo Caves, Otorohanga. Looks great for Nov 30 at this very early stage :)

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WW

Keep an eye on our Chch forecast as it's being live updated every 30 to 60 mins this afternoon. But yes most likely.

- WW

No worries at all, we've removed that station so within an hour it should have gone for you. Let us know how you get on. And yes incredible hail storms today, the damage has been significant around Timaru, now it's moving into Ashburton and towards Christchurch.

- WW

Lower level cloud may have cleared but there may be some high cloud about, hopefully it's thin enough in your case that you'll see what your looking for.

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Aaron

Keep an eye on our detailed Chch forecast and the MetService thunderstorm outlook.

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WW

Hi Ian, thanks for this. We are making a big upgrade to our website this summer, but it's mostly to do with making the website work faster, work smarter and be more secure. Our upcoming upgrade is the biggest in 10 years and is needed to keep the website working (it will seriously crash under the weight of data if we keep it this way). Hopefully most people can see why we needed to upgrade and will still find everything they need.

We are a bit surprised so many millions of dollars went into the MetService site for such little change. It's also the third major change to the MetService website this decade so far! This is the number one issue WW has with the two Government forecasters though - so much wasted money for no real return on the tax payer who owns them. And still they won't freely share data we have all already paid for.

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Phil D

It wasn't overly strong compared to tornadoes you hear about in the USA but for us in NZ it would have been a bit of a jolt to the system. It would have been an EF0 or EF1 at best.

WW