Deep low for S.I. next MON/TUES...

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Mon 03/04/2006 12:22

I thought the AK radar just got upgraded??? April 7 now?

Manukau heads obs · Mon 03/04/2006 13:00

i wondered why it was not up to date....as there could be some heavy showers coming in that cloud sheet to our NW
sky channel is blaning the position of the sun for no transmission again just at the moment

kiwisk8er · Unread post by **kiwisk8er** » Mon 03/04/2006 13:22

Manukau heads observer wrote:could be one of the biggest storms for a while buy the looks....

Hi all I'm new here. I'm hoping it will be a nice big storm, hopefully my new weather station will arrive sometime this week, I can't wait to set it up. By the way I'm a weather junkie, can't get enough especially hurricanes/cyclones.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Mon 03/04/2006 13:41

Welcome along!

Yes it looks like a good storm coming up..but it may just send easterlies across Southland/Otago.. but it looks good after that with a cold change running up NZ hopefully by Monday.

What kind of weather station are you getting?

Manukau heads obs · Mon 03/04/2006 13:42

rain in sight to my NW here now..

kiwisk8er · Unread post by **kiwisk8er** » Mon 03/04/2006 13:53

Foggy Hamilton wrote:Welcome along! Yes it looks like a good storm coming up..but it may just send easterlies across Southland/Otago.. but it looks good after that with a cold change running up NZ hopefully by Monday.

What kind of weather station are you getting?

A La crosse 3600, it the most I could afford that hooks up to a PC. My hubby (computer programmer/systems administrator) can't wait to play around with it especially trying to get open3600 working on my mac mini.

My biggest problem at the moment is finding the right site to put it.

squid · Unread post by **squid** » Mon 03/04/2006 16:45

GFS has a low 968 over the middle of the SI in a few days time could be in for a good storm good luck

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Mon 03/04/2006 17:01

In perth you never get that sort of weather very often

squid wrote:GFS has a low 968 over the middle of the SI in a few days time could be in for a good storm good luck

Andy · Unread post by **Andy** » Mon 03/04/2006 17:22

squid wrote:GFS has a low 968 over the middle of the SI in a few days time could be in for a good storm good luck

Yes some excitement

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Mon 03/04/2006 19:22

At a glance, looks good for thunder in the west of both islands end of the week/weekend. Depends on how much cold air gets advected into the Tasman.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Mon 03/04/2006 19:44

Looks like a Cb factory in the Tasman later in the week.

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Mon 03/04/2006 19:44

lovly warm day today 24.2C with gusty N-NW wind still 18C at the moment.
Yes an interesting beaut towards te end of the week I think winds will be the main player but also thunderstorms.
Some models depict two different deep lows on Friday,Saturday

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Cheers
Jason.

Manukau heads obs · Mon 03/04/2006 20:39

heavy rain here, and in the auckland city too, i see....
4.3mm, wind changed to the WNW now, temperature dropped...a bit of a front just went through...

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Mon 03/04/2006 20:42

Raining here nicely too

Brian, check out my 24 hour graph...? (I did that logfile to graph function)

Manukau heads obs · Mon 03/04/2006 20:52

i suspect that the log file had last months data in it too?
open up the file, 42006lg.txt, in notepad.exe, and have a look ...if so, delete that....

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Mon 03/04/2006 20:54

A couple of heavy showers here this evening.
I see greylyn had 3.6mm from the last shower, would have been more than that here.

KiwiWeather · Unread post by **KiwiWeather** » Mon 03/04/2006 20:54

Just had a really intense flash of lightning here. No thunder heard.
Now its heavy rain.

Manukau heads obs · Mon 03/04/2006 20:57

over 4mm there now...

cool on the lightning.....
i thought the sky looked thundery coming onto dark!

ricky · Unread post by **ricky** » Mon 03/04/2006 22:59

wow, yes I just looked at the nexstorm replay and there was some lightning to the SE about 8:40 and some more further east a bit after 9

was quite a defined front came through..

squid · Unread post by **squid** » Mon 03/04/2006 23:25

only in winter michael with your favourate wind the SW

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Tue 04/04/2006 08:01

Nice shower passing over ChCh at the moment, can see cb's over tha alps.

Manukau heads obs · Tue 04/04/2006 14:19

with all the spill over rain on the great divide from this low just crossed the SI, and the same expected for the next low, then that should ease the power crisis?
(funny that i hard on the news they said no rain expected for the catchment areas in the near future....on the day it was raining there?
or have i missed something?

Flutterbye · Unread post by **Flutterbye** » Tue 04/04/2006 15:03

Manukau heads observer wrote:with all the spill over rain on the great divide from this low just crossed the SI, and the same expected for the next low, then that should ease the power crisis?
(funny that i hard on the news they said no rain expected for the catchment areas in the near future....on the day it was raining there?
or have i missed something?

Call me a cynic but I think they will use any excuse to raise the price of electricity and start playing around with everyones hot water.

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Tue 04/04/2006 15:26

a single helium cooled nuclear power plant should do it....and its safe and believe it or not (if managed properly) has less impact on the environment than the archaic practice of burning fossil fuels!

but yes i think your right flutterbye, they will find ANY excuse to increase the per unit cost of electricity.

Also the govt should be subsiding the installation of solar panels on ALL new houses built

two pennies bit, and completely irrelevent to this thread

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Tue 04/04/2006 17:05

C-Nimbus wrote:a single helium cooled nuclear power plant should do it....and its safe and believe it or not (if managed properly) has less impact on the environment than the archaic practice of burning fossil fuels!

Good idea

...but keep it in Auckland

JohnGaul
NZTS