Christchurch gets abit of everything when you think about it Carrot, 50/50 whats good about our weather here is when we get something exciting its normally pretty big!
steady rain here for most of the night, got heavy for a time but since then nothing special and no wind t speak of hmm werid!
Still heaps of rain to come for CHCH so dont worry and the latest rain radar shows heavy stuff approaching. Latest warnings from metservice says from the hours 8pm - 5pm thurs. So 3 hours down still another 16 to go!!!
Reporting Live from Southern Christchurch
Leighton Thomas
11pm radar does show a lot of heavy rain headed for ChCh, even some heavy rain headed for temuka and timaru, which I was thinking was going to miss temuka a few minutes ago but now looking likely to hit.
Yes some big rain in north cant, me thinks a river or to is gona flood and the huruni is now at over 1000 cumics! and rivers like the ashley are coming up fast to.
melja wrote:Yes some big rain in north cant, me thinks a river or to is gona flood and the huruni is now at over 1000 cumics! and rivers like the ashley are coming up fast to.
hmmm that 1 in ten year reading is actaully at the Mandamus site, not the SH1 reading.. so not quite at the worst levels yet but still very high!
Very steady here now edging on heavy, I can actually hear it on the roof now unlike before.
Sea is starting to get a good roar going and thats about 5-10mins drive from here.
Some interesting hours ahead then.
Cheers
Jason.
271.8mm wow that's a lot of rain, where abouts in chch is fendalton? don't know whether or not to believe it, but on the 12:36am radar there is a lot of heavy rain showing for chch
Sure is coming down heavy now, surface flooding evident in my backyard already.
Its also swung southerly now which is also why the rain has got heavier.
Cheers
Jason.
wind is still SE in Timaru, don't know about Temuka as I don't have a weather station yet... and don't know of any in my town so my closest readings I look at are in Timaru.
Only 20mm here so far today on top of the 13mm yeaterday. Cheviot still getting good a good fall 140mm for the storm so far. It looks like it might even clear for a period this morning then rain again.
MarkThomas wrote:where is the rain for chch. 21mm thats it?!?!!? its stopped already
I don't think we are done...more to come from looking at the SAT and radar loops...only 21 mm in my part of town...32 mm out at SG's place in Templeton...looks like areas in Canty north of the Waimakariri got hit the hardest with this system so far...(those cumec readings from the Hurunui were scary...)
115mm here for the storm so far, very heavy between midnight and 3am with rain rates in excess of 20mm/hr. Extensive flooding and washouts on roads around here, paddocks 90% under water.