Weather Forecast for Timaru

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- WW

Late afternoon / early evening will be the best time for showers then it eases away. Although we are seeing a few showers coming in at the moment, but that aforementioned time is the precipice of today's event.

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Aaron

Hi there, Thunder isn't really in the forecast but showers are off and on until Monday. Check our Rain Maps for more details along with our hourly chance of rain for the next 10 days.

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WW

Hi there, like restaurants we all have the same ingredients but product different menus. We use the computing power of IBM's super computer (the most powerful weather computer in New Zealand) and it self learns from various events. MetService do not have this technlogy. At this stage Monday and Wednesday look a little showery - perhaps a bit similar to today but with lighter winds. The showers may be enough to make us shift to a sun/shower icon but for now it's not looking overly wet. High pressure look dominant next week. MetService have gone very wet with showers, we've gone drier - i think it will be somewhere in the middle with Mon to Weds more dry than wet, but in saying that still a bit showery at times with sunny spells and West to SW winds. Look at our rain maps for more details too - you can see why this forecast is shaping up that way. All the best with the visitors!

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WW

Hey Deano, we've fixed this now. Let us know if it's working better for you :)

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Phil D

Hey there, thanks very much for letting us know. Can you see what the Station ID is for that particular station? (in the NOW/Current section).  If so we can then easily remove it - or replace it with another nearby station until this one is working again.

Kind regards and cheers for the update,
WW

G'day there

That is a week away so anything I say now may not exactly come to fruition by the time the 16th to 19th rolls around. In any case the 16th looks good, sunny with light northwesterlies. 17th is fairly good also, winds may pick up a little. The 18th may be dry in the morning then a front moves over in the afternoon bringing rain. Morning rain on the 19th then drying out in the afternoon.

Hope that helps!

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Aaron

Hi Deano, we're currently working on a new set up which will allow you to choose the local weather station you want. This is because so many of our main centres are both coastal and hilly so have quite a variation. Sometimes even the nearest station may not be the most accurate for you. We'll be adding this feature later this year in our free app and our new rural app...so watch this space for a fix!

- WW

Hi Jemma, thanks for the question. Unfortunately it's too far out to lock in any kind of weather pattern or forecast that far out, especially in Wellington which can be spectacular sunny and dry, or cold, wet and wintry! Best we can do is give you an update 10 to 14 days out based on the patterns around then. Storms sometimes can appear with as little as a few days notice so even two week advanced forecasts aren't always helpful in a small island nation like New Zealand. Sorry we can't be of more help at the moment!

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Phil D

Yeah it's a bit complicated as there's also a high coming in behind it quickly which may weaken it. But ff the high is slower the low may deepen more. A 'watch this space' forecast!

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- WW

Looks quite anticyclonic around then for Taupo so mainly settled weather looks to be on the cards I'd say, doesn't rule out the chance of areas of low cloud or fog morning and night but the afternoon's should be good.

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Aaron

Hi there

It'll get cold, but not quite a frost. Looking at about 3 degrees, perhaps an outside risk of something a degree or two lower which is getting close.

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Aaron

Winter months in NZ are June, July and August. But some prefer to go by the solstice which in 2019 starts from June 22nd.

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Aaron

May, a bit colder than April but not as cold as June. As for the other particulars......rain, wind and sun they will all occur in varying amounts, some more than others.

Aaron

Hi there, yes Queenstown can get 'spillover' from West Coast rain events and the set up over the past month or two has been for a LOT of rain to fall on the West Coast, so Queenstown has been affected by that too to some degree. A similar pattern continues from April into May this year it seems.
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- WW

Hi there, the warm calm conditions around Auckland coupled with a weak low moving in over the city is helping to produce instability. These clouds have exploded into life over the warm waters of Auckland harbour/Hauraki gulf. We do have some risks today (in green) but generally at the lower end of the risk scale so not likely to be widespread - but may still be intense. We had thunder showers in our 4am forecast Infographic this morning for the upper North Island - but they are very isolated.

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WW

Hi there, your taxes fund MetService. We are an entirely free service and we definitely warned of the rain for Taranaki and had it in all of our forecasts. We also tweeted yesterday how much rain had fallen in some parts of the region - well over 100mm!

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WW

Good morning - what we display is our general WW Wellington regional forecast, in which we deem 0% chance of rain. The hourly forecast comes from IBM and is specific to the location you have chosen, and this shows any variation in your local spot. We'd suggest if you're confused at all, ignore the hourly forecasts and focus on the main WW one as it's generally more accurate. MetService's set up is very different and their data often has no association with their forecast. Our hourly data is related to your precise location of choice and this is the extra details we provide to help you plan your day but as we say, just stick to the main WW forecasts if it's too much detail to make sense of.

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WW

Haha, it's fun to be fun sometimes! :)  Glad we made you laugh!
Have a great long weekend

- Cheers WW 

Greetings to you too :)  At this stage we don't see the right amount of energy for hail - but there may be some locally heavy downpours along with a cold change that may feel a bit wintry for a time. There is some chance but the risk is deemed so low it's perhaps not worth highlighting.

But please let us know how things pan out

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WW Team