Likely permanently offline: What was originaly intended to be a temporary outage for repairs will likely be permanent due to a much better weather station being setup in near by Hamilton East. Reinstating the Ruakura station is probably not worth the fairly high repair cost now.

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Weather for 2019-01-02


Records

Sensor Min Max
Temperature 15.8°C at 05:15:00 28.1°C at 19:05:00
Apparent Temperature 11.8°C at 05:15:00 27.5°C at 19:15:00
Wind Chill 15.8°C at 05:15:00 28.1°C at 19:05:00
Dew Point -40.3°C at 05:15:00 9.6°C at 18:50:00
Humidity 1% at 23:55:00 33% at 18:50:00
Barometer 1011.2 hPa at 21:30:00 1013.0 hPa at 11:55:00
Gust Wind Speed 2.7 m/s at 16:05:00
Average Wind Speed 0.4 m/s at 18:30:00

Total Rainfall: 0.0mm

1-day Charts

7-day Charts

Data is a 30-minute average.

Temperature and Dew Point (°C)
-50
-40
-30
-20
-10
0
10
20
30
27Dec
28Dec
29Dec
30Dec
31Dec
01Jan
02Jan
Temperature
Dew Point
Apparent Temperature and Wind Chill (°C)
5
10
15
20
25
27Dec
28Dec
29Dec
30Dec
31Dec
01Jan
02Jan
Apparent Temperature
Wind Chill
Humidity (%)
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
27Dec
28Dec
29Dec
30Dec
31Dec
01Jan
02Jan
Humidity
Pressure (hPa)
1010
1012
1014
1016
1018
1020
1022
27Dec
28Dec
29Dec
30Dec
31Dec
01Jan
02Jan
Pressure
Wind Speed (m/s)
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
27Dec
28Dec
29Dec
30Dec
31Dec
01Jan
02Jan
Average Wind Speed
Gust Wind Speed

Ruakura Ground Station

These images are received directly from polar orbiting weather statellites (NOAA-15, NOAA-18 and NOAA-19) each of which travels across the sky at least twice a day. Received broadcasts are analog APT signals so the images tend to have noise at the top and bottom where the satellite is closer to the horizon.

The satellites orbits vary from day to day so the country tends to move around in the images a bit. The rotation of the image tends to vary based on which direction the satellite is traveling in. How tall the image is depends on how long the satellite is within range of the ground station. The tall lower noise images are from high elevation passes (where the satellite travels nearly overhead) where as the short noisy images are from low elevation passes where the satellite is traveling along the horizon just within range of the ground station (often not far enough in range to produce an image).

Each satellite pass produces several images with various enhancements applied. See: A description of satellite enhancements for more details.