Weather Forecast for Palmerston North33m above sea level
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Next 24 Hours in Palmerston North
Next 9 Days in Palmerston North
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30km/h
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trace
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26km/h
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of rain
8.8mm
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16km/h
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5.1mm
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20km/h
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12.6mm
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16km/h
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5.8mm
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15km/h
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2.2mm
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16km/h
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2.4mm
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20km/h
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0.8mm
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25km/h
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4.6mm
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Christopher Randal on 10/09/2024 4:19am
Waharoa forecast for today is “mostly sunny” but just fyi we’ve just had 7.5mm of rain in 5 mins
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Hannah on 9/09/2024 8:38am
Please help. I see this all the time “rainfall may approach warning criteria 15km east of the main divide”. I have googled, I have asked, I have searched what is considered the ‘main divide’. I understand it is the mountain range up the South Island, but how do I use this for predicting weather with something so specific as 15km east of a landmark that goes all the way up the island? Thank you a million times over for explaining this to me.
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WW Forecast Team on 9/09/2024 7:18pm
Hi Hannah – thanks for the question but you’d need to ask MetService about that for more specifics. To us it means the highest main ridge of the Southern Alps which runs north-east to south-west and leans more towards the West Coast. At WeatherWatch we simply refer to this as “Spillover from the west” and this can vary along the Southern Alps as to how far east it goes. As the air rises over the Southern Alps that process strips most of the moisture, so once the air drops down on the eastern side it warms up and loses the rest of that moisture.
Chees
WW
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josh on 10/09/2024 1:21am
is that what they call a “Fohn wind”? i read something like that in that metservice book that came out a few years back.
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Josh on 2/09/2024 9:15pm
hey ww . are we expected to see more active fronts move into auckland like thursday night – early sunday morning this month? lots of thudner/lightning last few days.
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WW Forecast Team on 3/09/2024 12:07am
Hi Josh, hard to know sorry – spring is very changeable but the mix of warm and cool air is a good recipe for thunderstorms, especially when there is a westerly for northern NZ but a southerly over the Tasman Sea.
– WW
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josh on 3/09/2024 12:44am
cheers team. september already. spring already. where is 2024 going?
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WW Forecast Team on 5/09/2024 1:26am
Almost a quarter way through this century already!
PD
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Josh on 9/09/2024 9:44pm
and this century weather records have been broken with some in the past year or so. aucklands wettest day was last year on the deadly january 27 flood event. followed by deadly cyclone gabrielle. quite a few damaging tornado events 4 deadly ones and big thunderstorm events and droughts.
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