Changeable weather pattern typifies spring

Last week’s October weather in Taupō settled into a typical spring pattern with westerly to southwesterly winds and scattered showers brought about by the passage of northward moving and weakening frontal systems.

Although the winds were not at all strong, they were often moderate to fresh.

At the end of the week a rapidly intensifying high-pressure system began to move onto the country from the Southern Ocean clearing the weather and bringing a fine and frosty with change.

A glance at the attached data chart appropriately shows those weather features.

The high-pressure system heralded a fine and sunny Labour Weekend, not only in the Taupō area, but throughout the country.

Spring is so often marked by changeable, windy westerly weather, typical of last week.

Temperatures through last week were near to the average of an October spring, but finished with a sharp frost as calmer, clearer weather arrived with the advent of the rapidly rising barometric pressure.

Next week’s report will feature the final full week of October and the following week a monthly summary and the statistic chart for October 30 and 31.