HEAVY RAIN!

Manukau heads obs · Mon 09/06/2003 04:00

3:50 am
been woken up by torrenttial rain, at 6mm per minute!

40mm since it started at midnight
28mm in the last 50 minutes!
40mm in 4 hours total
eased off a bit now.....
also been a big pressure drop too!

looking at other online statations in the area, no one else is getting this,,,,this heavy, but maybe what we are getting is still heading east (we are further west)

Manukau heads obs · Mon 09/06/2003 07:53

http://www.rob-hall.esurf.co.nz/our_weather.htm

i see massey got heavy rain, similar to us!

GraemeWi · Unread post by **GraemeWi** » Mon 09/06/2003 08:50

Yip, I got 26mm here which is a lot for us. Unfortunatly I replaced the battery in my barometer and have not had a chance to calibrate it yet, but it's showing 992 now with a lower dip at 3am.

Manukau heads obs · Mon 09/06/2003 08:52

a fair bit of flash flood damage here
our drive way is a mess
the flats are under water
the neighbour has a slip and a cluvert half buried
but i guess it is winter
SW gales forecast for 2 nite:
that hardly every goes to forecast though, so we will have to wait and see how this low moves....

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Mon 09/06/2003 09:26

It was pretty awful last night(rain)

There was thunder but I saw no lightning though

Manukau heads obs · Mon 09/06/2003 12:47

some of the cb's aroudn here today (not far from here we had another torrentialy heavy shower at 11am this morning

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Mon 09/06/2003 17:57

Surprise Surprise ! Its raining really heavy again

Wasnt too bad earlier but the map showed a rainband off the coast which we must be getting now

Manukau heads obs · Mon 09/06/2003 18:27

once the southerlies set in we will get fine but cold weather michael
we need some fine weather, its quite wet here now,with 91mm for the month to date now....
then back to rain by sunday by the look of it with northerlies again by the looks (thats what the models have)

Thunder · Unread post by **Thunder** » Mon 09/06/2003 20:45

Not interesting down here (Chch) at present, looks alot more fun up your way. Anything your way Pete - AKA "CbFan".

Also, a bit late but thanks GraemeWi for telling me how many hummers are possibly in the Auckland area.

Cheers
Aaron Wilkinson

Manukau heads obs · Mon 09/06/2003 21:04

one thing that bugs me:
the sat pic has shown all day, and the rain radar this evening confirms it, the original low center is crossing the southern end of the kaipara harbour this evening, and yet met service hve been saying all day it will cross the NI just to the south of auckland....
errr....

i see a new low forming off the hawkes bay/wairapa coast......i.e the low/trough doesnt like to cross the ranges of the NI,and a new low forms in the lee of the ranges instead....i.e does a bunny hop

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Mon 09/06/2003 21:58

The wet weather seems to have missed Christchurch until this evening. (light rain has now arrived) Yesterday's radar showed afternoon rain getting up into South Canterbury and later I think as far as about Ashburton, but there's been virtually nothing around Christchurch and Banks Peninsula until this evening; only some light drizzle from about midafteroon.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Mon 09/06/2003 22:15

Yes, Ben ... boring...
an intense anticyclone is now moving across slowly from the west, so for the meanwhilst ...

JohnGaul
NZTS

TonyT · Unread post by **TonyT** » Mon 09/06/2003 23:07

Brief showers and 2-3 thunder claps here in North Canterbury as the front came through around 3pm Sunday afternoon. Dry since then till around 10pm, now we are having a few showers and gusty southerlies.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Mon 09/06/2003 23:35

Interesting, Tony as I was observing from Southbridge, about the same time,Mammatus cloud forms moving across. Light southerly there but no sign or indication of anything ... "thundery" . It was also very gloomy and non very interesting. There were spots of rain on the windsceen home from the cloud 'Filling in" . I heard no Sfrerics.

JohnGaul
NZTS

GraemeWi · Unread post by **GraemeWi** » Tue 10/06/2003 08:45

Manukau heads observer wrote:one thing that bugs me:
the sat pic has shown all day, and the rain radar this evening confirms it, the original low center is crossing the southern end of the kaipara harbour this evening, and yet met service hve been saying all day it will cross the NI just to the south of auckland....
errr....

My barometer got down as low as 986 yesterday afternoon (I'm pretty close to there the low centre would have crossed) I'll check it's calibration today if I can.

G

Manukau heads obs · Tue 10/06/2003 10:09

cool
we got down to 994, and the wind was easterly...
gusts to 42 knots here today!

TonyT · Unread post by **TonyT** » Tue 10/06/2003 10:14

[quote="NZ Thunderstorm Soc"]Interesting, Tony as I was observing from Southbridge, about the same time,Mammatus cloud forms moving across. Light southerly there but no sign or indication of anything ... "thundery" . It was also very gloomy and non very interesting. There were spots of rain on the windsceen home from the cloud 'Filling in" . I heard no Sfrerics.

Southbridge is quite a way from Amberley

Only 2 perhaps 3 claps, they were quite a long way away just a distant low rumble, and definitely to the west/northwest, so I am guessing it was on the hill country. And there was a definite shower with it.

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Tue 10/06/2003 10:47

Must be 100 knots today

The Northeasterlies are tame by the comparison of today

Manukau heads obs · Tue 10/06/2003 11:42

20 to 30 knots gusting 42 knots here
and I would take 10 knots off that for places further inland, like where you are michael, in a southerly
(waiuku is getting gusts to 25 to 30 knots)http://www.tokaanuskihire.co.nz/waiuku/waiuku.htm

still along way to go to a decent southerly...
have recorded 45 knot average gusting 68 knots in a southerly here in the past a few times!