NZ: Kaikoura has near-record temperatures IN THE NIGHT!

"At 3am this morning Kaikoura reached 22.6 degrees ( on the back of a puff of northwest wind). Interestingly looking back through the climate data for this weather station (which started reporting in 1949) this 22.6C is 11th on the list for the highest maximum in September, and it happened in the early hours of the morning. The average night time temperature for September is around 9 degrees, so it was considerably warmer."

Anthropogenic climate disruption

22.6 C at 3a.m. in Kaikoura

How come no emergency declared???

---Kevin Hester

Kaikoura sees 22 deg C in the early hours of the morning

NZ Metservice, via Facebook

You have to love this spring weather

No snow today but we have everything else.

Vigourous northlerly flow ahead of an approaching front is not only causing some wind damage in parts of the South Island and bringing heavy rain, it is also playing havok with our temperature forecasting.

At 3am this morning Kaikoura reached 22.6 degrees ( on the back of a puff of northwest wind). Interestingly looking back through the climate data for this weather station (which started reporting in 1949) this 22.6C is 11th on the list for the highest maximum in September, and it happened in the early hours of the morning. The average night time temperature for September is around 9 degrees, so it was considerably warmer.

Looking at the wind graph you can see the brief northwesterly of around 20 knots (37km/hr) at the time the temperature peaked

(note times are in UTC so 141500 is 3am this morning) then later this morning went back to a northeasterly which lowered the temperature back down to around 14 degrees (which is not to far off the sea surface temperature)

It has also turned into a warm day elsewhere in the east of both islands with quite a few centres well into into the twenties. At 1pm Napier was up to 24.5C and Hastings 24.4C.