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Weather Warning & Alert Service

The Sanctuary Weather Station now sends out three types of emails: a Weather Report, a Severe Weather Alert and a Frost Warning. If you'd like to receive any (or all) of these, simply drop us an email using the Contact Form and choose the appropriate department from the drop-down box.

The first is a twice daily weather report of conditions observed at the Sanctuary Weather Station with the following format:

CURRENT WEATHER REPORT FROM: The Sanctuary, Auckland, New Zealand

TIME: 09:00 AM  DATE: 10 May 2010

(All values are reset at midnight NZT)

 

Current Conditions: Dry

Current Temperature: 13.9°C

Apparent Temperature: 13.6

Maximum Temperature: 14.5°C at 12:00 AM

Minimum Temperature: 12.4°C at 8:00 AM

(Yesterday's High: 18.9 °C - Yesterday's Low: 14.1 °C )

 

Humidity: 87 %

Dew Point: 11.8°C

 

Average Windspeed: 5.0 km/h

Wind Direction: South east

Max Wind Gust: 12.6 kmh from the east north east

at 2:11 AM

 

Barometer: 1018.0 hpa and Rising

Pressure Trend: +0.4hPa/hr

 

Today's Rain (since midnight):   0.0 mm

Month's Rain: 1.5 mm

Year's Rain (to date): 1.5 mm

Full days since last rain: 2

Last Rain at  8:25 AM on 7/5/2010

 

Sunrise: 7:07 AM - Sunset: 5:27 PM

Expected hours of daylight today: 10:20

 

Moonset: 2:24 PM on 09/05/10

Moonrise: 3:00 AM on 10/05/10

Moon Phase: Waning Crescent Moon

Next New Moon: 01:05 UTC 14 May 2010

These reports are sent out at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m

The second type of service is a Severe Weather alert and looks something like this:

******WEATHER WARNING !******
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93 km/h average windspeed was exceeded !
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Time of event was : 23:57:51
Date of event was : 28/10/09
Current conditions :
Windspeed 10.0 kts
Direction SSW 198 °
Temperature 12.9 °C
Humidity 91 %
Barometer 1013.9 mb
Maximum windspeed 29.6 kts SSW at time: 03:43
Maximum speed last hr 20.9 kts SSW at time: 23:38
Rain today 1.2 mm
Monthly today 107.6 mm
Maximum temperature 13.7 °C at time: 13:41
Minimum temperature 12.3 °C at time: 04:37
Rain Rate/min 0.00 mm/min (0.00 mm/hr)
Rain last hr 0.0 mm

The way the above report works is this:
There are thresholds set by the Sanctuary Weather Station and if any of these (listed below) are exceeded then an email is automatically sent to all those who have requested it.

Please Note: this is not an advanced warning system of weather to come. It is a notification of weather events that have just taken place here at the Sanctuary Weather Station but can be indications of Severe Weather in the area.

 The thresholds are as follows:

* Maximum wind gust above 50 km/h (High Wind)
* Mean wind speeds over 55 km/h (30 knots)
* More than 25mm (1 inch) of rain in the last hour
* More than 50mm (2 inches) of rain in the last 6 hours
* Temperature falls below 4°C
* Temperature rises above 30°C
* Windchill falls below -1°C
* Barometric pressure rises above 1040 hPa
* Barometric pressure falls below 950 hPa
* Barometric pressure fall more than 5 hPa in 1 hour

 The third service is a Frost Warning alert which is automatically sent out when the following criteria are met:

* Time of day is between 9pm & 9am (over night)
* Dew point is less than 3°C
* Air temperature is 6°C or less
* Temperature has dropped more than 1°C in the last hour
* Wind speed has been 2 knots or less in the last hour

If you're interested in receiving these, please let us know via the Contact Form, choosing the appropriate department(s) from the drop-down box. You are free to request that your email address be removed from the list at any time and your email address will not be passed to any third party.