Weather Forecast for Christchurch

Hi Dave, great to see you writing to the Minister. Megan Woods needs to hear from as many people as possible about the anti-competitive and bullying behaviours well documented in these two Government Agencies. Our meeting was positive but the Commerce Commission is refusing to help us currently, despite the Minister assuring us the ComCom was our next step following our meeting with her recentlly. We have held off on explaining it all to the public as we are waiting on a formal letter from the Minister's Office, which we hope to get this month. We've told her we feel the system is corrupted and broken - we repeated that again to Megan Woods Office on Friday after the ComCom were flat footed on what their responsibilities will be moving forward. Frustrating and painful. 

Cheers
Philip Duncan

Hi there

Very latest updates show areas of cloud and occasional sun, may be a brief shower or two about otherwise mainly dry. Winds light from the north, a high in the late teens, possibly early twenties if your lucky.

Cheers, Aaron

Hi there, tomorrow is a classic 50/50 forecast with rain in the area but it is clearing away...so timing is EVERYthing! It does look as though it will break up in the morning but whether it happens by 9am in Beachlands isn't 100% known yet. Either way, it doesn't look likely to linger all day but there is a moderate to high chance of early rain or showers. We'll be fine tuning our Auckland update a few times across today, for Saturday. :)

Cheers
WW

Hi thank you for this and sorry for the inconvenience. We'll check in with Panasonic and our developers and see what the issue might be.
Cheers,
WW

Hey there, normally a SE wind does make for a dry day in Auckland but a nearly by offshore trough may encourage rain or showers to linger longer. It's a bit 50/50 but at the moment the chances are weighted towards the day become drier rather than the day becoming wetter as it goes on...so good luck! We'll be fine tuning that Saturday forecast over the next day or so as we try to lock in the timing.

Cheers!
WW

Hi there

Is looking mainly dry next Sunday with a southerly wind in control so hopefully a good day on the cards for you. Have a good one!

Hi Ken,
The observations network we display is actually operated by WeatherUnderground and the site has some data being switched off now. On top of that issue, NZ is the only country in the western world to give their forecaster (MetService) the power to commercially block people access to the data they helped fund. So we can't display live tax funded weather observations, instead we switch to the private network (which is actually much more detailed and granular, but it also has glitches, like the one currently affecting you). We are working on a major overhaul of the entire current observations network next year, but in the meantime we'll take a closer look at this issue in your area. As for the weather station above, we can look into it also but please note we do not run this network, or have access to the weather stations - we simply display them.

Cheers
Phil D

Hi there, take a look at our observations page and you can see the various stations we have in Tauranga. They are here: https://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/observations

Kind regards

WW

Well that depends, where are you located in New Zealand?

Aaron

Hi there, yes we are seeing an early November pattern kicking in across New Zealand already. Mostly dry for the week ahead too but hopefully a rainmaker kicks in next week in the north. Definitely a bit concerning and droughts have been declared in both NSW and SA over in Aussie in recent weeks. Can't connect this with climate change at this stage, simply the reality of weather patterns impacting a small nation, but the warmer than average year can be considered part of global climate change.

Cheers

WW

East is best today and again on Sunday. Bay of Plenty, Bay of Islands, eastern Auckland and Coromandel, Hawke's Bay etc :) 

Good luck!

WW

Hi there

Is looking mainly dry. Just a spell of early clearing rain on Monday then later in the week on Thursday there could be some rain associated with a low slipping southeastwards to the east of the North Island. With its associated southeasterly airflow rain may be not too bad about Auckland but places like Coromandel, Great Barrier Island, eastern Northland and East Cape could be affected with heavy falls. But we'll wait and see, still a while away yet and things could change.

Cheers
Aaron

Hi there, you may just be ok :) There is a cold front moving up the West Coast this weekend with heavy slow moving rain but it appears it will be stuck down in Fiordland and South Westland on Saturday and not reaching Westport until Sunday morning. So hopefully a mainly dry day (a few showers) and increasing clouds. Mild northerlies. All the best!
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WW Team

Windier and colder from Monday night/Tuesday. Keep an eye on our weather videos and news updates for extra details :)

Cheers
WW

Hi there, Christchurch is too far north and this is too much of a westerly event for Canterbury to bring you the worst of the weather. Because it will be windy frosts aren't highly likely next week although overnight lows will drop to the low single digits. So probably a 25% chance of frosts at this stage (air is definitely cold enough but probably too breezy). The polar blast will drop temperatures nationwide but Southland, Fiordland, Otago and the West Coast look to be  exposed to the worst of it. The Southern Alps will keep Canterbury mostly dry and sunny next week, except Monday.

Cheers
WW

Hi there,

 

Regarding the live obs page, this still uses a WU data feed, but I can see it there showing data so it's a valid PWS".

 

Hope that is helpful,
Cheers
WW 

Hi there

Someone wrote in asking for some historical data just below and this is the responce from Phil Duncan.

"Hi there, sadly NZ it the *only* country in the entire western/developed world to give Government agencies like MetService and NIWA the power to control this data on a *commercial* level - this means we are blocked from openly helping you. In all other western nations we'd be able to help you, quickly and likely at no fee, because we could share data that we all collectively tax fund. In the meantime, please contact MetService or NIWA directly for this information. Both NIWA and MetService now compete directly against each other (imagine if we had two police forces!?). If this frustrates you - as it does us - you can email Minister Megan Woods (as she is currently reviewing this set up following an independent Government review that recently supported our point of view that this is wrong).

Kind regards
Philip Duncan"

Cheers
Aaron

Hi there

Mostly everything you are thinking re what the weather is going to do is fairly spot on. Rain will be more persistent on the western side of the Alps, it picks up in intensity from afternoon with heavy rain from evening on Sunday. This rain will clear away on Monday morning fairly quickly with sunny spells and the odd shower then possible.

Hope your trip goes well! :)

Cheers
Aaron

Hi there, interesting points raised. Like most news outlets we try to cover stories that our audience wants and without a doubt a major storm hitting the United States garners more interest from the general public than storms hitting eastern Asia, most likely because it's perhaps more relatable with all English products and news updates. We covered Jebi as well and had a surge of interest in it, but this storm approaching the eastern US is unique and has the potential to be incredibly devastating. In saying that, the typhoon is actually more powerful at the moment but there is a greater chance of it being at sea and not slamming populated places. Our relationship with CNN means we can get access to a lot of domestic US weather graphics, which we find much harder to source for eastern Asia. We didn't cover the hurricane that was heading towards Hawaii recently because all our modelling suggested it would be a non-event, which for the most part it was - so it has nothing to do with whoever is 'shouting the loudest' as we make our own independent assessment. So we do tend to weigh up a few things before deciding to cover international news. It was us covering Hurricane Katrina for radio stations in 2005 that actually lead to the set up of WeatherWatch.co.nz a couple years later so we'll always have a close tie in with the US storms due to our connections with US forecasters.

Kind regards and thanks for the questions (and ps, yes totally agree it's very confusing having Typhoons, Hurricanes and Cyclones all with different ways of measuring storm strength, it really needs to have one global bench mark in this day and age).

Philip Duncan

Just a few extra clouds to add to the mix, she's all good :)