Weather Forecast for Napier

Hi Graham

I would have expected Queenstown to be lower in pressure also most of the time, perhaps a particular station you were looking at may not be calibrated correctly?

Then again from memory stations higher up in elevation should be calibrated to act as if they were at sea level so there could well have been a sea level reading difference of 4 hpa between Dunedin and Queenstown on that particular day.

Hope that helps!

Cheers
Aaron

Hi there

Sunset for Wellington NZ on the 22nd June 2019 was 4.59pm, this is the date for NZ's shortest day.

Sunset for Wellington NZ on the 22nd July 2019 is 5:16pm.

So we will have gained an extra 17 minutes of light at sunset today since NZ's shortest day! :)

Cheers
Aaron

Hi there, a couple of isolated thunderstorms in the upper North Island this afternoon as the mild sub-tropical northerly turned cooler westerly. It will be cooler tonight and into the weekend so thunderstorms are less likely although some more heavy downpours are possible.

Cheers
WW

Hi there, not sure if you mean today or next Wednesday. Today's rain is moving in now and the afternoon looks wet. Next Wednesday looks much better. The rain today clears away this evening.

Cheers

WW

Hi there

Thursday looks to be a dry day for Christchurch :)

Cheers
Aaron

Hi there, yes MetService provides warnings which taxpayers fund. WW completely ignores these warnings due to the failure rate of accuracy and was why Civil Defence in Auckland hired our services for several years to reduce their false alarms. Sadly, we're back to the original problem of near continuous false alarms with absolutely no accountability.

Cheers

Phil D

Hi there

Please see a responce we made to a question just below, this covers Auckland also. Actual lightning / thunder is probably a touch lower risk wise in our estimation.

WW

Hi there

If you could let us know your location that would help in letting us find out what you need to know.

I'm assuming you are talking about for the western North Island, after a period of heavy morning rain afternoon showers could be briefly heavy / thundery with hail then overnight western parts of the North Island get another band of heavy showers with possible thunder / hail, especially Taranaki.

Cheers
Aaron

Showers pushing through at times tonight may be briefly heavy, thunder looks to be a low chance of happening.

WW

G'day there, a period of heavy rain around midday may bring some thunder but late afternoon / evening the chance of thunder increases a touch. Any thunderstorms later in the day will likely have hail and short / sharp squally showers. Typical NZ thunderstorms really for winter / the western side of NZ.

Hope that helps!

Cheers
Aaron

Hi there, the weather we have at the moment is a little spring-like, which means we'll see warm and colder air collide and that can lead to isolated thunderstorms and even isolated tornadoes. But they are VERY isolated along NZ's entire western coastline so not a high risk of concern but some low risk for a repeat performance (but more than likely will happen at sea or over a remote part of NZ). 

Cheers
WW

Hi there

Check out our Auckland forecast, it's just been updated and shows a few chances coming up, Friday and Sunday at this stage :)

Cheers
Aaron

Hi there, yes there is the chance of a cold snap early next week, short lived and mostly in the southern half of the South Island. We're actually right now putting a story together about it so look in our news feed before noon :)

Cheers

WW

Hi there, thanks for the supportive message and for the idea! Yes noticed that smog yesterday - the precursor to the fog we have this morning. We have actually built a fog forecaster we are trialling and in theory it could have smog attached to it. The issue in NZ is that the Government really loves to limit how much data is out there (unlike ALL other first world nations) - so because the Government makes NIWA and MetService agencies heavily commercial it means WW can't access tax funded/owned data to make products like this. So WW not only has to pay the Govt taxes for data we then cannot use, but we also have to heavily pay for data offshore just to be able to run our company!  So it's a little complicated but we are getting there - we hope to have a fog (and maybe someday smog) forecasters out in the near future though :)

Cheers!
-WW

Hi there, unfortunately we cannot freely share tax funded data due to MetService and NIWA's own commercial priorities - we get legal threats from these Government Agencies if we try to share tax funded data. So you'll need to contact either of them directly. NZ is the only country in the world to operate this way, hugely limiting how we can help with simple requests like this. 

Kind regards
WW

Hi there, very good question. The daytime highs are especially above normal and we have even warmer than normal weather coming in the weeks ahead. In Auckland many people notice spring conditions in early August so there isn't much time left for winter to 'do its thing'. In saying that, it was mid August 2011 when we had a nationwide Antarctic blast that brought snow into Auckland and Northland - so we can never rule out a major blast, but as for daily conditions winter is definitely spluttering this year here.

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Phil D

Hi Di! Are you talking about your desktop computer or mobile device? Sounds like you may have a caching problem (it's trying to auto remember where you live). You may need to clear your cache to reset. We're overhauling the site in spring which will fix some of these bugs. Hopefully that works for you. Let us know if it doesn't! 

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Phil

Hi Michelle

That is something you will have to contact Metservice or NIWA about as they hold that type of information. Good luck! :)

Cheers
Aaron

Morning Deano, as nice as 37 degrees might be for some it is clerly wrong! :) We've removed it for now - so it should automatically transfer to another nearby station today for you.  Thanks for the update.
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Phil D

Hi there, you'd need to ask MetService about this as we're only a free service but they are the tax funded weather service for Government. We have tried to get a few local ones in that area on our observations page - but the lack of population there would be the main driver for not too much data - in saying that, heavily touristy so makes sense for more focus. Thanks for the message - we're improving the quality of forecasts around NZ and we do have specific 10 day forecasts for Tekapo you may find helpful and accurate.

Cheers
WW

Great question - at this stage high pressure looks to dominate the start of the month so perhaps more of the same for at least the next 14 to 21 days. A lot of high pressure systems still extending from Australia. 

Cheers

- WW

A subtropical northerly airflow is being directed over New Zealand at the moment hence the warm nights, it will eventually change later this week with the direction changing to the south. Won't be as warm then!

Cheers
Aaron