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Re: When's it going to rain?

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Are you serious? Far out, that is amazing
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Re: When's it going to rain?

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Looking at the rain radars from overnight it looks like a stationary front, stalled over a line between ChCh and north Canterbury?

Don't have a rain gauge at my place but I'd say there was at least 10mm in the hour before midnight before I nodded off to sleep

Not often you see unexpected events as major as Tony's with modern forecasting!
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Re: When's it going to rain?

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Stationary (more or less) fronts have delivered quite a lot of rain here of late. About 95mm over 29-30 March, and another 30mm on Saturday. More than we really needed. Bit of a relief to be seeing a following southerly that looks to be brightening the skies quicker than the forecast implied (I hope).
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Re: When's it going to rain?

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MS are going to need to review their max temp for auckland today i think. Already 23 and that is the max they have. Just a slight breeze at the moment. I was sitting outside in the sun and started sweating straight away.
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Re: When's it going to rain?

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Out on Banks Peninsula, there was probably only some light drizzle overnight. (as judged from dampness of ground) It seems that heavy rain only hit northern parts of Chch and northwards, as Hillmorton recorded nothing overnight. Sounds like a convergence zone maybe.
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Re: When's it going to rain?

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Very unusal patter for ChCh. Steady rain here in riccarton for the past hour again. Still nothing in Jeffs guage at hilmorton though?
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Re: When's it going to rain?

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j--me--h wrote:MS are going to need to review their max temp for auckland today i think. Already 23 and that is the max they have. Just a slight breeze at the moment. I was sitting outside in the sun and started sweating straight away.
convection flaring up today, big single drops hitting my windshield as i went to get wendys :) daytime heating is helping push those clouds up.
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Re: When's it going to rain?

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j--me--h wrote:MS are going to need to review their max temp for auckland today i think. Already 23 and that is the max they have. Just a slight breeze at the moment. I was sitting outside in the sun and started sweating straight away.
That strikes me as an overly simplistic way of looking at it.
If you go by the airport then it's hit 22C today.
From what I can tell the forecast was not reviewed and it seems to have panned out quite well.
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Re: When's it going to rain?

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Razor wrote:60mm!!!! :shock:

Wow I'd love to see some comment from the Metservice on this one then, thats a major event there Tony

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Cloudy with patches of drizzle.
I wouldn't have thought that such a local event could be classified as serious...judging by the data I can find none of the other Christchurch stations have recorded anywhere near TonyT's amount.
And how could something so local be accurately forecast - even if 'some heavy showers' had been forecast, I think anyone would still be surprised with a rain total like 60mm.

Still, it's unusual event, and TonyT got lucky! 8)
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Re: When's it going to rain?

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Nothing here in Rolleston today, actually blue sky to our south but very dark to the north.

1 mm overnight.

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Re: When's it going to rain?

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Periods of drizzle and rain here in Central ChCh all day.

I'd be interested to know how much more Tony T has had up that way today. No wind to speak of.
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Re: When's it going to rain?

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SE with light patches of rain for us - not a usual occurrence for here to have rain from that direction. We had 30mm on Saturday, so want sunshine again please ???
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Re: When's it going to rain?

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Myself wrote:
j--me--h wrote:MS are going to need to review their max temp for auckland today i think. Already 23 and that is the max they have. Just a slight breeze at the moment. I was sitting outside in the sun and started sweating straight away.
That strikes me as an overly simplistic way of looking at it.
If you go by the airport then it's hit 22C today.
From what I can tell the forecast was not reviewed and it seems to have panned out quite well.
Yes my bad. They did it just right. At about 2pm high cloud thikened up keeping the temp at its high of 24 here.
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Re: When's it going to rain?

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Given cooler air aloft I think 24C is all we were gonna get today. Nice to see the t/cu building up with distant afternoon showers to SE.
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Re: When's it going to rain?

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We finished with 62mm. Most of that fell between 5am and 7am this morning. Just light drizzly stuff off and on during the morning, dry this afternoon. There were a few brief torrential falls during the night (following on from the couple I mentioned last evening), then a sustained period of heavy rain before dawn. I had to drive into Chch at 9am, and while it was 14deg here it was only 10 deg down the road in Woodend, both places under heavy cloud and with little wind - so I think there was probably a significant temperature gradient in there contributing to it all. Just a shame I didnt forecast it! :D :oops:
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Re: When's it going to rain?

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I had some steady rain falling last night at around 9pm on and off all night from there, nothing torrential though.
Definatly isolated with about half a km of heavy light rain, drizzle driving into work this morning rather large drops though too.
Most of the wet stuff will be moving out by now for the week until perhaps the weekend.
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Re: When's it going to rain?

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Bucketing down straight down here about an hour though easing up now.
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Re: When's it going to rain?

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Im seeing the possibility of a bit of tropical rain late next week maby, fingers crossed. Long way away. Could be a late TC. But im probably jumping the gun here.
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Re: When's it going to rain?

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oh no, looks like the weekend of the 20th will be a big NE blow and heavy heavy rain over the upper NI...its the wifes 40th birthday and we are heading up to the far north for a weekend away from the kids.....might be inside the whole weekend!!
of all the weekends.......
but the rain is badly needed if it can get down into the Auckland/Waikato area (hopefully)
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Re: When's it going to rain?

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ok, latest ecmwf shows that the next low from the north is going to slowly move south and be all the way through by the start of the school holidays, with a westerly flow left...
on its way through, there should be good rain from the NE over the dry areas of the NI next week hopefully
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Re: When's it going to rain?

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Hmmm, we're heading south in front of it then, going to Masterton for mother's 80th and a book launch. I'll make sure the PC is happy before I leave... :lol:
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Re: When's it going to rain?

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This Anticyclone should slow the approach of a Tasman Low next week allowing for some good falls of rain hopefully over Auckland. Looks promising this far out.spwill
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Certainly for Northland, flood producing rain up there. Thats based on slow movement of the front and good moisture advection onto the province.
But hey, we are still looking days out so the prognosis can change.
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Re: When's it going to rain?

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good
latest ecmwf has the low passing right over the Auckland area, with, yes, a big moisture feed
surely we gota get the rain this time
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