Here’s what is making the weather headlines today.

🌡️Milder weather is gradually returning to #NewZealand.

Maps: MAX Daytime Temperatures (Departure from Normal) for Tue & Wed.

Key:
🔵🟡🔴 Colour shading represents how much cooler/warmer it is compared to average.

🔢Numbers on the NZ map represent actual forecast Temperature. pic.twitter.com/aZS3ZQDUW0

— WeatherWatch.co.nz (@WeatherWatchNZ) October 24, 2022

RAIN FOR THE WEST COAST

Despite a high pressure system covering most of New Zealand today, a trough brings some rain to the West Coast north of about Haast. Only one spot may see some heavy’ish rain and that is around Greymouth then easing this evening.

SOUTHLAND / OTAGO – VERY NICE WEATHER

The lower South Island has some very nice weather today, mostly sunny conditions are expected with light winds. There may be a light frost this morning though. Any morning cloud for Central Otago clears.

Temperatures for the upper North Island may be a touch warmer but there is more cloud.

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BOB CROWDER SAYS THERE ARE HINTS OF 1969 IN THE AIR – T/STORMS

I went and visited Bob Crowder on Saturday afternoon in the weekend. For those who don’t know Bob he used to lecture at Lincoln University in Canterbury, he set up the Biological Husbandry Unit in the mid-1970s and at the time he was the only researcher in the country advocating organic methods of farming.

Beyond organics Bob has been following the weather and thunderstorms in particular ever since he arrived in New Zealand from England. This is how I know Bob, through thunderstorm circles.

He noted to me, “The weather has a feel about it like it did in 1968 / 1969”. Around then and few a few years after Bob tells me we had a good run of thunderstorms in Canterbury. Bob photographed a funnel cloud from the top of one of the buildings in Lincoln back then.

Perhaps some more frequent thunderstorms coming up for Canterbury, we shall see…….

– Aaron Wilkinson