Weather Forecast for Nelson

Hi there

Not sure on the average for New Plymouth sorry, woud be a metservice or niwa question as they hold stats.

With a low winds rotate clockwise, in a high winds rotate anti clockwise. For information on lows please refer here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-pressure_area

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Hi there Carolyn, no at this stage we expect temperatures to gradually lift overnight. Here's the latest temperature map for you. Stay warm!

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WW

Hi there, the thunderstorm is due to the large low now deepening in the Tasman Sea. We may have another one overnight, but at the moment it's looking a bit quiet out there. Keep an eye on the live lightning trackers we have on our website and app, they are both updated every 60 seconds.

- WW

Good morning, there are some thunderstorm risks along the entire western coastline of the North Island this weekend, mostly later today and across Sunday. They will be scattered / isolated, or "hit and miss", so a bit hard to lock one in for where you live. Today's risk is higher the further south you go. Tomorrow it's generally along the western coastline from Taranaki to Northland. We have some maps indicating the general risk areas in the lead story on our site right now.

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WW

Good morning, it's borderline for snow in Dunedin today but it's just slightly too warm at the moment. It's more likely above 200 metres and if any flurries go lower it's unlikely to settle. Also, the snow level should lift to 300m this evening.

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WW

Hi there, that's quite a tough question to answer because snow and rain will be in various elevations along that route. Generally speaking yes you may encounter snow, as Queenstown has snow in the forecast today and so too does Otago down to about 200m for a time. Keep up to date with NZTA for highway conditions.

Cheers and safe travels

- WW

Hi there thank you for that. We'll see what we can do about that. We're hoping to improve our observations network in 2020. Thanks for this (great getting the Station ID as we can then easily identify it).

Kind regards

WW

Hi there, we have a slow area of patchy rain which is now clearing away with a few showers behind it. We've just updated Saturday and it's a drier morning with showers or patchy rain developing later. There may be some heavy downpours later and looks like a low to moderate chance of an isolated thunderstorm or two later. We'll be closely watching the Auckland weather on Saturday.

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WW

Hi JS, what a really lovely message to get, especially after the negative press we received due to our Government competitors. Thanks heaps - we work really hard to be as accurate as possible, always room for improvement but messages like yours make it all worth while. Thanks so much, have a really lovely weekend.

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Phil D

Oh wow that's the million dollar question!! :) We may see some around on Sunday PM and Monday - otherwise nothing really locked in just yet. Auckland gets better chances of thunder in spring and late summer usually (October and February are often a couple of good months).

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WW

Hi there, no we see some snow for Wanaka and Q-town too, from Saturday to Tuesday are the main chances for slow flurries into those main centres. See our hourly 10 day forecasts for more for Queenstown and Wanaka (we have EVERY small part of NZ covered -  tried testing us!!)

- WW

Oh what a great question!! NZ is a frustrating country for extreme weather - our mountains and ranges break up this severe weather and it can actually enhance the extreme conditions for some while weakening the weather for others. This is NOTHING like the mid 90s blast, you need a more easterly flow of moisture into Canterbury for that to happen. This set up is much more S to SW so that is usually drier for you. BUT....we must say the complicated nature of this set up says you also need to be up to date as there may be a SE lean to the winds for time which could be more interesting for Canterbury. But again....overall the region doensn't look as wintry as others. 

Sorry we can't be more precise for you - just the nature of this set up!

Cheers for your awesome support!

Phil D

G'day there

By the looks of things, Rotorua is dry this Saturday morning (10th) then the odd shower may start to move in from afternoon. The following Saturday (17th) is much the same however it may stay fairly dry till evening then rain moves in.

Winds from the northwest both days.

Sort of a half n half answer, hope it helps either way.

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Aaron

Hi there, at this stage Christchurch may have some cold rain this weekend with heavy snow above 400m on the ranges/hills with single digit highs. No severe weather for the city in any forecast though at this stage.

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WW

Hi Sharon, we both get our data from various similar sources but we both interpret them in different ways sometimes. The data we use from IBM in our long range forecasts has been verified (independently according to IBM) as being more accurate than the NZ Government forecasters. We'd like to think our 5 day forecasts written by WW are accurate too. So it's really up to you to decide which forecaster seems most accurate for you. We often have different opinions, a bit like how restaurants can have the same ingredients but produce different menus. Long range forecasts can flip flop more though, so they are harder to be certain of, but a 20% chance of rain later next week with sou'westers does usually mean a few showers will be caught up in it - so we both have similar forecasts for Weds - Fri next week by the sounds of it. As for this Saturday, our maps and computer models still suggest there may only be showers but we'll be updating that again overnight when the next set of data comes in and helps us fine tune things. Hope that is helpful.

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Phil D

Hi there, if you click on our Auckland forecast you can see Hourly forecasts for the next 10 days out, showing wind speeds for each day. Auckland may get up near gale force at times but it's not likely to be any stronger than the wind we just had.  So "blustery at times" may be a good way of phrasing next week's weather in Auckland.

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WW

Hi, thanks for the question. Temperatures are trending upwards for the rest of this week, then drop after this big low passes by on Sunday/Monday/Tuesday. Things look to warm  back up again later next week and going into next week. As for more generally speaking, usually by mid August (another week or two) we often tend to notice that 'spring bounce' in the temperatures.

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Philip Duncan

Could be something around the 13th / 14th August but that is a week away and model information can change a fair bit in that time frame. At this stage it looks like it may only be brief snow to sea level if it does happen, once again, nothing garantueed this far out.

Will have to wait and see! :)

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Aaron

Hi there, we're launching a new rural focused website very soon and it will have much more data on it, including air pressure trends for 10 days out plus hourly updates for each of those 10 days. So we've answered your question - we still do it (or are at least bringing it back!). We'll be announcing this new site in the coming days...so yes, very near future! :) 

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WW

There may be a cold blast again next week - see Phil's latest weather video as he touches on this. As for Christchurch, nothing in the next week sorry.

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WW

Really appreciate the local update Jac, much appreciated! Poor weka!!

Stay warm, 
Cheers

Phil D

Hi there

Use these maps and you can see where snow may fall around NZ over the next few days.

https://www.snow-forecast.com/maps/dynamic/nz

windy.com also has some usefull maps once you learn to navigate around them.

Basically Taupo itself will probably not see snow but there may well be some about surrounding hills / mountain ranges.

Hope that helps!

Cheers
Aaron

It may get close overnight but perhaps just a tad to warm for anthing to settle at sea level, more then like sitting above 100 to 200m.

Here's hoping a few flurries make it to you :)

Cheers
Aaron