wembley wrote: Sat 28/04/2018 21:57
Have you noticed the Met Service have not updated the forecast for tomorrow or subsequent days? Are they being lazy or something?
They of probably given up and all gone down to the pub?
The overnight low here was a balmy 18C, sunny spells today should give us a warm day with a few heavy showers moving in this afternoon.
A line thunderstorm activity showing up currently across Coromadel/BOP, missed the weather action here so far.
Started off slowly about 3pm here, got heavy around 9pm last night and again at about 4.30am with some occasional very loud thunder from intracloud lightning as far as I could tell. Only about 70mm thus far.
spwill wrote: Sun 29/04/2018 06:57
The overnight low here was a balmy 18C, sunny spells today should give us a warm day with a few heavy showers moving in this afternoon.
Possible thunder if the convection gets going. GFS has a afternoon trough line coming down. Expected max today is 22C.
Just over 200mm at the WRC's Golden Cross site on the Coromandel since yesterday.
A mere 21mm here. Not quite as severe here as forecast, but all Waiheke ferry sailings were cancelled last night (perhaps needlessly?) due to 'severe weather warnings'.
MetService list of highest gusts (km/h) yesterday…
109 .. Mamaku Radar
104 .. Cape Turnagain
102 .. Paeroa
100 .. Tutukaka Harbour
96 … Cape Reinga
91 … Hokianga
91 … Okahu Island
91 … Mokohinau
89 … Port Taharoa
89 … Waiouru
85 … Golden Valley
83 … Whenuapai
83 … Cape Kidnappers
81 … White Island
(Note, no readings from Whangaparaoa )
still heavy rain off and on at Tepuna, infrequent lightning every 15 mins or so , looks like lots to come yet until trough moves east.120 mm here now. Kaimais will be sitting at 200 as well.[where most of the thunder is ] 3 rumbles in the last few mins now ! Taurangas turn for a change as we have dad no real T Stms for months.
Rotorua Police have asked people to avoid all travel in their patch. At least one of their cars has been abandoned stalled in rising floodwaters apparently. Serious flooding around various areas has been reported.
NZstorm wrote: Sun 29/04/2018 11:41
Rotorua has had 63mm last hour and 130mm last 4hrs. BOP regional council rainguage.
....and we thought we had it quite bad here in South Canterbury with lots of flooding, a bridge washout near Geraldine. Lots of weather related accidents. 165mm so far here for the event but it looks as though it may ease up soon as it is much brighter looking towards the north.
The mothership low in the Tasman has been virtually stationery for the last 6 hours assisting it’s water bombing missions on parts of the North and South Islands. Serious flooding now in certain areas already mentioned. The low is maybe inching NE slightly again around 994 hPa. A heavy band of showers off the west coast of Northland is wrapping around and heading SE now near that next stationery front. The good old mid latitude cut off low has stumped models and forecasters every day for the last 5 days
Currently here it is 21c, 18c DP, baro 1000.8 and steady. Only 26mm so far but it could have easily been a 100mm more if the low had of stalled more west.
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