Weather Forecast for Christchurch

Hi Matt

0% chance of snow in Chch this week :)

Cheers
Aaron

Hi there, no fog isn't forecast at this stage for the weekend - but strong to gale force winds are but it's too early to know if it will cause any flight issues. But fog, which is usually more problematic, is not in the current forecast. 
Cheers and safe travels!

- WW

Could be some heavy rain on Wednesday morning this coming week. Monday 5th August, hints of some very cold air around then, outside chance of snow flurries into Chch perhaps? But being this far out chances are that snow level will lift or the weather for then may change completely so don't hold any hopes on that.

Looking fairly placid after that as far as I can see.

Hope that helps!

Cheers
Aaron

Hi there

Apologies about the late reply.

Monday looks good, sunny areas and some high cloud with light winds. Showers move in Tuesday morning with northwesterlies strengthening during the day. Wednesday has heavy showers, some hail, snow likely and strong to gale Nor'West winds.

So Monday good, Tuesday you may get away with some sking in the morning perhaps?? Wednesday looks no good.

Cheers
Aaron

Good morning, at this stage it's looking a little less likely for fog in the days ahead due to more of a breeze to blow it away/stop it from forming. We may still get some isolated patches but generally the risks do look slightly lower in the mornings ahead.

Cheers!
WW

Hi there, it's too far out to see that far but the second week of August may have high pressure slowly moving away which can lead to warmer weather moving in but sometimes some rain too. We really can't lock in anything with accuracy until at least 10 days out though. All the best and keep an eye on our Wellington forecasts from August 6th for the 16th. Fingers crossed it pans out as nice as it is right now!! :)

Kind regards

- WW

Hi there, we hoping to launch this in just a week or so actually :) 

- WW

Hi there, thanks for the question and the very kind feedback (much appreciated!). There is a small but very active cold front out in the Tasman Sea, mainly in the lower half. The detectors in NZ aren't professional (as MetService won't share the tax owned tracker) so sometimes when lightning is well offshore our detectors here pick it up but can't quite place it. Just had a look at the global lightning tracker, which our friends at Weatherzone in Sydney use, and this confirms these storms.

- Cheers, Phil

Hi there, there may be some on Sunday and Monday otherwise it's mostly dry. Looks like they have a 40cm base at the moment which isn't too bad.

Cheers

WW

Hi there, we'd be normally expecting westerlies, showers and possibly a polar southerly at some point with temperatures by day a few degrees lower and temps at night about where they are. Maybe a remaining frost or two too. This year, however, we see the late July pattern continuing on into August which suggests milder weather - at least to begin with.

Kind regards
-WW

G'day there

Conditions are looking quite good, mainly sunny. On Sunday expect thickening high cloud then Monday looks a little wet, but in Mt Hutt's case this will probably turn to some snow which isn't bad. It's not much, perhaps an extra 5 to 10cm of snow at most but Mt Hutt will need it as it hasn't been a spectacular season for snow so far. The last lot of wet weather we had in Canterbury provided a much needed boost re snow up there and hopefully that will see your trip out ok.

Winds are looking light even up high on the mountain top so that's good.

Not sure re the website query. Is this the page you get?

https://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/location/Mount%2520Hutt%2C%2520Rakaia

Even though it says Mount Hutt, Rakaia.... it will more then likely be for the Mount Hutt Ski area looking at those forecasted temperatures, high's of only 0 to 4 degrees and overnight lows all in the negatives.

Good luck for your trip!

Cheers
Aaron

Hi there Jess, wow what a lovely message to get, thank you :)   At this stage we're not seeing a major wintry change for Dunedin.  In fact the theme of mild weather looks likely to continue on into August with high pressure kicking the month off (at this stage). We see no major change in July's weather pattern which means drier than average and milder for Dunedin. Of course August can be a very chaotic month and so a winter storm is always on the cards, but right now we see no significant change in sight to this current weather pattern. Really appreciate your support for our free public service :)

Cheers
Phil D

Hi there

Perhaps not till late July or early August, even then there's nothing that drastic looking in the pipeline for around then. Is looking quite settled.

Cheers
Aaron

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