Ex-TC's affecting NZ - Jan 17-19

[Philip Duncan]

Oh Onenews intro was funny today saying that the worst is still to come kind of way

Yeah they're really bad at that

[bmo]

Oh Onenews intro was funny today saying that the worst is still to come kind of way

Yeah they're really bad at that

Just like the webcams they use during the news "and lets go to Auckland where it is cloudy and you see nothing from the pictures..." yes we can see that?!

[Lacertae]

Looks pretty good on Terra and Aqua NZ subsets !
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subs ... .terra.2km
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subs ... 8.aqua.2km

[bmo]

Looks pretty good on Terra and Aqua NZ subsets !
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subs ... .terra.2km
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subs ... 8.aqua.2km

I see Taranaki region and that's about it!

[Tim S]

41.4mm so far from this event although I was expecting a little more.

Interestingly the barometer is sitting on 987.8hpa which means the low that was formerly known as Zelia must have passed fairly close by as the BoM 06Z chart had that at 987hpa.

[melja]

982hpa here and droping at .9hpa an hour and 14.2hpa in the last 12 hours so looks to be moving over the island now.

[bmo]

Overnight low for auckland 23degrees fells like 30

[Storm Struck]

Still off and on showers here with larger drops at times, You can start to see where the low will cross in the coming hours.
Still such a nice night out there, 18.3C with 88% humidity and up to 28mm so far.

[Chris Raine]

Heavy rain and SW set in at 0030hours , still raining steadily

[Manukau heads obs]

we got better rain here with the SWer
10mm, 7mm yesterday
usefull, but I expected alot more!
we might get some showers over the next week from the east (heat showers in the afternoon)?

[Avalanche]

Its a fizzer, what i thought was gonna be some heavy rain an wind for wellington region ended up being nothing i guess most of the weather ended up on the southern alps it seems . altho we did have the odd down pour an recieved a total of 35mm of rain during this event.

[NZstorm]

we might get some showers over the next week from the east (heat showers in the afternoon)?

Rain, but it may be Monday before it gets here.

35mm is a good fall Avalanche.

[Wildland]

Tawa got 16 mm from this event, 12 mm of that fell between 9 pm and midnight. It was quite intense at about 9:30 p.m. (0.4 mm/min) so the run-off rate on dry, hard clay was rather high. The 4 mm that fell up until 1 am was probably the most useful for shrubs and gardens.

Mana, just north of Porirua, got 20 mm.

[Razor]

Good strong SW change blew its guts out for half an hour in the wee smalls. nice to have an inch of rain yesterday too, perfect.

[Dale]

Much nicer day up here with the passing of the 'artist formerly known as Zelia'.. still high dewpoints but nothing compared to the sauna that was yesterday.

[Brassnz]

12mm out our way, was also anticipating more than that.

[Nev]

Total of just 8mm of mostly light rain/drizzle here. Over night temps of 21/22C, until about 6am. Down to 19C now, with RH still close to 100%. Winds fairly blustery yesterday, but nothing too exceptional. Starting to clear here now.

[gllitz]

Was just checking out ECan website for rainfall totals from yesterday's system and did a double take on the name of a site:

http://ecan.govt.nz/services/online-ser ... eNo=320010

...jeepers, you'd think they would have renamed this site by now?!?!?

EDIT: Then found this below:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/3364258 ... cist-names

...still,

[Michael]

We tend to get more rain when it goes mid latitude from extra tropical maybe the cold air condensing it out,ie the winter sub tropical ones are that way.

[Shepherds Valley WX]

I'd be stoked with 35mm Avalanche! - we got a miserable 4.2mm over the "hill" in West Taratahi. I see Masterton recorded the highest temp yesterday (it was stifling hot, 31C with a 21C DP and high humidity). The new Metservice history graphs are a nice feature on their web page.

[Vertigo]

heres some pics i snapped at takapuna beach in auckland around 6pm yesterday..

[Orion]

Vertigo - thanks for those pictures, they convey the conditions well!

[Vertigo]

notice the plethora of windsurfers taking full advantage

[bmo]

Nice pictures! Normally Takapuna doesn't look like that!