melja wrote:yeah hats of to blue skies for geting there forcast spot on no NW in there forcast.
Right up until last night blue skies were forecasting fresh gusty NW winds not sure about today.
It was actually probly quite good it stayed NE because a NWer would have reduced rainfall amounts today for sure.
I Believe the heavier to more persistant rain fell from about mid canterbury southwards, and less out this way.
Cheers
Jason.
Yes how pathetic, actually we have been quite lucky about how today turned out.
Started to really rain hard around 2pm, stil kept working until we had finished work!!
But NW didn't eventuate either! not really surprised at all, never looked like it was going to.
melja wrote:yeah hats of to blue skies for geting there forcast spot on no NW in there forcast.
Right up until last night blue skies were forecasting fresh gusty NW winds not sure about today.
It was actually probly quite good it stayed NE because a NWer would have reduced rainfall amounts today for sure.
I Believe the heavier to more persistant rain fell from about mid canterbury southwards, and less out this way.
Cheers
Jason.
Not the forcast i read on ATS mind you that is for mid canty but i dont class us as north canterbury here so i find the mid canty one a litle better as its for the flat plans and most of north canty is high country anyway.
really need more rain here....
ECMWF shows a good old fashioned tasman low will be the next best bet for rain...
and maybe we might get another tropical visitor yet over the next few months
in the 2nd picture, Funa is way off to the very SE of that sat pic
that circulation you see is what formed from the tail of Funa .....as it was pulled north again by a jet stream going around the big high sort of thing,...it was an upper level feature that bored down to the surface and then created the low that moved south again to clober the chatamn islands
all really weird how that all happened