Today's Wx lesson

A nice day in the Tasman and environs.   Screenshot Windy.com/Satellite.

Unfortunately New Zealand's MSM is in the thrall of fear-ridden doom-mongering today with over-cooked red-infused Wx reports. And dodgy reporters propaganda-merchants in barely-wet plastic macs.  The supposed cyclone has passed us in the upper north with about 20mm of drizzly precipitation since 1900 last night.  Accompanied by a mere draught normal for these parts guesstimated to be 25 knots max.  Too much boy who cried wolf.

The pic taken a short time ago has all the traits of a typical 5-seasons in one day.   Wrt to the centrally featured ex-tropical cyclone depression one can observe at 12 o'clock as nice day with some light cloud  between here and Fiji.  A bit different the other day when said depression was wreaking havoc as a Cat 3 on the plane passengers vomiting in the aisles up there.

At 4 o'clock we have the still blocking feature (speckled area)  pumping cold air northward from the freezer.

Over NZ, there's some dark grey rain clouds.  Nelson and Coromandel to Tauranga.  Normal for the surfers in a stiff easterly.  Bit draughty in the back of Otago - that hard line is wind shadow - it must be fairly  steaming over the Southern Alps.  The rest of the bright white depression cloud is drizzle with some wind.  Hard wind on western edge from Northland to the paradise that is the Auckland Isles - a weather system 2000 Km across transiting through your day may have adverse effects.

At 7 o'clock, we have winter approaching from the Aussie Bight (more speckled clouds = cold shitty showers) having dipped into the lower freezer on the way through.  Probably the remains of Cyclone Narelle that was in Perth a week ago having done an unusual full circuit of Oz starting at Brisbane in the weeks before.  

At 10 o'clock we have the ever present Brisbane River streaming toward the Far North.  Warm tropical air, laden with moisture and in this case as is normal, wracked with active thunderstorms.

At 11 o'clock we have the next cyclone forming.  Nov-Apr is the duty-frigate's worst time of the year.  It's cyclone season and they may have to put to sea at short notice to rescue some errant mariners or the like who do not regularly peruse present Wx or forecasts.

See kiddies, you need to learn how to read a weather map.  And what also is an analog clock.

Have a nice one.