Rangiora Airfield Weather Station

The Club Weather Station is offline temporarily (last update was receieved 01/07/2010 20:03:28 local time), in the mean time, here is the report from Mike Kindon's weather station.

The below summary is generated by Mike Kindon's Rangiora Weather Station and is provided here in the case that the club's station has gone tango uniform. Note wind is in km/h

METAR Observations NZCH

122 minutes ago, at 20:00 UTC, the wind was blowing at a speed of 8 knots from West at NZCH. The temperature was 3 °C (37 °F), the windchill was -1 °C and the pressure was 1,016 hPa (30.00 inHg). The relative humidity was 69.6%. There were no clouds below 5,000 feet.. The visibility was >10 kilometers (>6.2 miles).

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Satellite Image

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Analysis Chart

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Rain Radar

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Sunrise/Sunset

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Web Cam

The web cam image below shows the view from the clubrooms towards the windsock (that's looking southish), look carefully and you should be able to see the windsock (unless the sun is low... or it's night).


Web Cam (daytime only!)

Time Lapse

NZCH METAR & TAF

Here are the latest METAR and TAF for Christchurch International Airport (NZCH) direct from the NOAA. NZCH is close enough to NZRT that these will be roughly accurate for NZRT. METAR | TAF

Weather Forecast Maps


MetVUW.com has free and easy to read forecast maps for up to 7 days showing wind, pressure and rain (this link goes to the South Island maps for the next 7 days).