Weather Forecast for Whangarei

Hi there, most of the cloud today has actually been Australian smoke/dust high in the atsmosphere giving the appearance of an overcast day. Actually today just has passing clouds and is mainly sunny. Over the next week or so we have plenty more cloudy days due to west to south west winds (which almost always bring clouds). The weather over the next week won't be as settled in Auckland with more wind and cloud coming in.

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WW

Hi there

Ues these maps: https://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/forecast-maps/rain

Scroll through the various times and you can see the areas of rain or showers moving through (rain is typically the brighter looking blobs, showers often the lighter coloured areas). You can see when it will actually be dry or wet.

As for the temperatures, the modeled temperatures are a little low. I would add a degree or two to them. It isn't a perfect system yet but better then nothing. More or less I'd just take note that days with lower temperatures will be a bit cooler on average and days with higher temperatures a little warmer.

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Aaron

Good morning Bex. The percentage relates to the chances of precipitation falling - precipitation being rain, showers, drizzle, snow, hail, sleet (moisture falling from the sky). 10% is a default setting when we can't say for sure it will be dry all day but there's a very good chance it will be. The percentage of rain does't relate to how much might fall although they do tend to go hand in hand. The higher the chance of rain the greater the chances of rain clouds in the area. We're upgrading our site next year and we'll be including amounts of rain into our forecasts too - and RuralWeather.co.nz already has this now. Have a great 2020, hope this has been some help at explaining!
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Phil D

P.s. By the way, we all tend to say "rain" when wet stuff falls from the sky, but technically a shower covers a small space, comes from a single cloud and lasts less than 30minutes. Rain covers a larger area, is generated from a large cloudy area and lasts more than 30 mins. A shower can produce more than rain can though. It's a tricky area to be clear in which is why having the radar to just 'see' what we're talking about will help a great deal.

Hi there, thanks for the question. Happy New Year to you too! Unfortunately the current set up doesn't bode well for sunny days - we have windier, cloudier, weather about to move in. Auckland actually only gets about 5 days a year that are truly cloud free, so this is fairly normal weather. Sunniest weather in Auckland will be in the extreme eastern areas - like north of Orewa or down near the Hunua ranges. Sou'east and Southerly wind flows are usually Auckland's sunniest - but we have a lot of sou'westers about to move in which, while similar, are much cloudier.

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WW

Really amazing to here. We've just put news, photos and maps up showing it. Cheers for the update.

www.weatherwatch.co.nz/content/surreal-thick-smoke-aussie-turns-south-island-skies-orange-and-dark-maps-photos

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WW

Happy New Year to you and the cats too! Thanks for all your great support, it's what fuels us :) 

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WW Team

Hi there Lullaby, thanks heaps for this - very kind! Have a great 2020 :) 

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Phil D

Hi there, sure we'll see what we can do - but give us until mid January to sory :) 

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WW

Thanks heaps for the feedback - we use IBM data to form our forecasts and they have the world's most accurate weather data, so it's a good place to be starting from! Will see what we can do about the rain :) 

- Cheers and Happy New Year!

Hi there, take a look at our lead story covering January and the next three months ahead. While not especially hot many places will be average temperturewise - or above normal. But there is also a decent portion of NZ that is averagr to cooler - and yes more like Spring and Autumn. You may find later in January and over Feb and March things are more summer like. But it's important to note that for over 10 years we've been saying summers and winters in NZ are both only about 2 months long - the rest is all an extended spring/autumn. :)

Cheers and wishing you a great 2020 - thanks for the support!

- WW

Morning John, thanks for your question. You may find this story from yesterday helpful - and keep an eye out later today for our next January and seasona/climate update. https://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/content/aucklands-windy-summer-may-get-even-windier-we-explain-whats-going

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WW

It happens, most years are different from each other. Hopefully summer finds it's groove perhaps end of January or February.

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Aaron

Hi there, thanks for the message and feedback about our new seasonal forecasts. Temperatures in early December were fairly mild and leaned above normal for a time, but you're right, we have this nagging sou'west wind which is dropping temps lately. Both daytime and night time temperatures lift up next week though, thanks to lighter winds and warmer airflows. Tonight will be colder than average just like today is.

We expect January to generally be about normal too (which means we don't expect this pattern to completely stop or dramatically change). Hottest weather will be in the north east of the region. 

The warmer weather at the start and even of December will likely balance the month out to be about average - but we won't know for sure until we reach January and government agency Niwa confirms the public stats.

We're also publishing our January outlook and updated Summer outlook on Monday - so keep an eye out for that.

For others who may want to see our current climate/seasonal outlook, you can find it here: https://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/content/new-december-summer-climate-outlook-new-zealand-8-maps 

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WW

Possibly. All depends on airflows from Aussie in the weeks ahead.

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WW

Hi there

There are no issues, it'll be fine.

Have a good holiday!

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WW

Hi there, sadly we did forecast in November that December would be cooler and wetter than average. You can find our full summer forecast for Southland here - https://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/content/new-december-summer-climate-outlook-new-zealand-8-maps and we'll be updating this next week.

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WW

Hi there, in 2020 we're adding new options for people to capture historical data and forecast data + alerting to our phone. It's a work in progress but hopefully we can get to where you're wanting to go at some point in the next 12 months. Historical data in NZ is hard to access due to unfair behaviour by both Niwa and MetService and is why the Commerce Commission has launched an enquiry into them: www.stuff.co.nz/business/116203356/commerce-commission-investigating-niwa-and-metservice

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Phil 

Thank you very much for the support! Have a great Christmas and safe and wonderful 2020. 

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WW Team :) 

Hi there

That's possible, the nature of showers is they are a bit hit and miss. But keep in mind you could get a downpour.

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Aaron

Hi there

Is looking mainly dry, perhaps the risk of an isolated shower late afternoon / evening this coming Wed / Thu as written  in our forecasts above. Thursday carries the slightly higher risk of a shower otherwise mainly dry.

Rain will come when it comes but in the short term, mainly dry.

Thanks very much, Merry Christmas to you too!

Cheers
Aaron