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HEAVY RAIN!

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

i see massey got heavy rain, similar to us!
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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.
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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....
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It was pretty awful last night(rain) :( There was thunder but I saw no lightning though ;)
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some of the cb's aroudn here today (not far from here we had another torrentialy heavy shower at 11am this morning

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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
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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)
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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.

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


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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.
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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.


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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.

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cool
we got down to 994, and the wind was easterly...
gusts to 42 knots here today!
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[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.
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Must be 100 knots today ;) ;) :)
The Northeasterlies are tame by the comparison of today :)
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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!
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