Farmer Roy's Random Thoughts - I never said it was easy.

Kiwi Pete

Kiwi Pete

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Owaka, New Zealand
Yale said:
Was that a low pressure zipping through which gave you the rain?
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There was a good trough that lined up Fiordland, we got a dribble out of it but I imagine further west would have had a good dousing.
It looked like it stretched all the way from Roy's, to here.
The alps and Fiordland take the brunt of any weather systems from the west, especially the northwest - we really need southwesterlies to get much moisture, which was our issue last summer: too much northwesterly stuff.
Just a different weather pattern, which means those systems have been a few degrees further north than usual, can really leave us dry down the bottom corner - we may average 900mm or so, but end up with 650mm, which is noticeable - I think that's about the Gunnedah "average"?
 
Yale

Yale

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North East Wales,upland farm,800-1300ft
Kiwi Pete said:
There was a good trough that lined up Fiordland, we got a dribble out of it but I imagine further west would have had a good dousing.
It looked like it stretched all the way from Roy's, to here.
The alps and Fiordland take the brunt of any weather systems from the west, especially the northwest - we really need southwesterlies to get much moisture, which was our issue last summer: too much northwesterly stuff.
Just a different weather pattern, which means those systems have been a few degrees further north than usual, can really leave us dry down the bottom corner - we may average 900mm or so, but end up with 650mm, which is noticeable - I think that's about the Gunnedah "average"?
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So explain to me.

Our weather generally comes from the West,especially across the North Atlantic.

I’ve never studied NZ weather patterns however assumed your weather would come opposite from the East.

I don’t know why I would think this,maybe because of the water down the plug hole thing,(not that it has anything remotely to do with it).:bag:

However the other day it looked like the front passing Roy was going West to East.

I’m totally confused now.:scratchhead:
 
holwellcourtfarm

holwellcourtfarm

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Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
hendrebc said:
Your waaaaayy too close to London :stop:
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The Orange cross is us :facepalm:

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cows sh#t me to tears

cows sh#t me to tears

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southern riverina Australia
Yale said:
So explain to me.

Our weather generally comes from the West,especially across the North Atlantic.

I’ve never studied NZ weather patterns however assumed your weather would come opposite from the East.

I don’t know why I would think this,maybe because of the water down the plug hole thing,(not that it has anything remotely to do with it).:bag:

However the other day it looked like the front passing Roy was going West to East.

I’m totally confused now.:scratchhead:
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From an Aussie point of view our weather "generally" goes west to east.....but.....because the continent is so large and is surrounded by multiple oceans, they also play a large part in local weather. Commonly east coast lows that deliver flooding rain to Sydney and down to Victoria's east gippsland, dont penetrate inland. The tropics tend to get there weather from the east from the Pacific. Tassie and southern Aus generally get ours from the west and depending on the pressure system as to whether it comes from the south west or north west.
 
Kiwi Pete

Kiwi Pete

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Owaka, New Zealand
Yale said:
So explain to me.

Our weather generally comes from the West,especially across the North Atlantic.

I’ve never studied NZ weather patterns however assumed your weather would come opposite from the East.

I don’t know why I would think this,maybe because of the water down the plug hole thing,(not that it has anything remotely to do with it).:bag:

However the other day it looked like the front passing Roy was going West to East.

I’m totally confused now.:scratchhead:
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We generally have a prevailing westerly flow, although the wind up at 70 hectopascals is going east to west.

So, if we get a low out east, because we're coastal, we'll get 3 days of moisture.
From the south, due south, then we can get snow at any time, (I've been fishing on Boxing day in the snow) and a sou'wester generally means wind and rain. But a nor'wester is hot and dry, as the alps block it and gut the clouds - hence they measure rain in metres on the west coast.

So, it's very fickle down here, we can get 650 or 1350mm in a year, it just pleases itself what it does and we go with it... we can get decent rain events over summer, or basically nowt....
 

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