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Very interesting, reading all these reports.

We recorded 49mm rain for the 24hrs to 7am this morning. Not affected at all by the wind, but we've had a small flood at home today with accumulated rainwater entering under a downstairs door. Power stayed on this time!

Argh, what's that bright light outside? My eye's...

Bound to be shortlived, but the sun is out at the moment.

If only I could get the Weather Radar up for a look... Grr, C'mon Metservice, sort it out!

Very interesting to hear about the wind damage/possible Tornado reports from BOP.

Dry here currently, even a glimpse of the sun. 14C dewpoint 13C.
Looks like a band of heavy showers will cross the Auckland area this afternoon.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/sto ... d=10524292

Tornado confirmed

Razor wrote:http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/sto ... d=10524292

Tornado confirmed

The Heralds informant is the flatmate of my informant, I thought I recognised the name.

Suns gone and low cloud has returned. Brometer climbed, dipped and is climbing again.

Fingers crossed.

A little more info from TVNZ...

'BOP feels force of storm'
Jul 30, 2008 11:04 AM

Tauranga is bracing for possible evacuations because of slips while Mount Maunganui has been hit by a mini tornado...
And the mini-tornado has damaged homes near Mount Maunganui's Bayfair shopping centre. The tornado has lifted roof tiles and caused other property damage. The area hit includes Ocean Beach Road, Inverell Place and Gloucester Street. Local resident Noeline Sealey says they watched the tornado come past their front window, then went outside when it had passed. ...

Nev wrote:A little more info from TVNZ...

'BOP feels force of storm'
Jul 30, 2008 11:04 AM

Tauranga is bracing for possible evacuations because of slips while Mount Maunganui has been hit by a mini tornado...
And the mini-tornado has damaged homes near Mount Maunganui's Bayfair shopping centre. The tornado has lifted roof tiles and caused other property damage. The area hit includes Ocean Beach Road, Inverell Place and Gloucester Street. Local resident Noeline Sealey says they watched the tornado come past their front window, then went outside when it had passed. ...

Is TVNZ that mini-TV station I've been hearing about?

And Philip Duncan is talking about last weekend's cyclone.

http://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/

note that he using the word cyclone as another word for depression

Just out of interest, what met background/experience or qualifications does Philip Duncan have? I have been reading the weather blog at his site and am just curious as to what he bases his observations on....

TonyT wrote:Is TVNZ that mini-TV station I've been hearing about?

Yes, interesting that they quote (or rather misquote) Newstalk ZB as a source, i.e. ...

'Tornado hits Mount Maunganui'
30/07/2008 12:08:45
A small tornado has ripped through several streets at Mount Maunganui. A suburban area near Bayfair Shopping appears worst hit - Inverell Place and Gloucester Street. Local resident Noeline Sealey says they watched the tornado come past their front window - then went outside when it had passed. ...

Be interesting to see what Jim or Karen have to say tonight...

And Philip Duncan is talking about last weekend's cyclone.
note that he using the word cyclone as another word for depression
Just out of interest, what met background/experience or qualifications does Philip Duncan have?

http://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/

Not many people call them Depressions these days,as it means more about a bad economy.Some countries call ordinary lows "Cyclones".
He is a spokesman for the Newstalk ZB network and most people probably dont care if its F1 or F5 apart from it being a scale to compare to or whether how deep or complex a low is apart from how many isobars or how close/big in area it is.He appears to have an interest in weather hence us all being here though some differing views.

baro dropping real fast here at the moment
981 hpa now
NE wind increasing
when the NW hits later today it could be a hum dinger by the looks!

michael, theres a reason we dont like calling these storms cyclones - because they are different events. we havent had a real cyclone here, and when/if we do, people might only take the usual precautions they would take for deep depressions like this. the terms are there to differentiate them, and we should be using them in my opinion.

also, F1-F5 are tornado categories, not cyclone, i believe you meant Category 1-5.

anyway, this thread isnt the place for this kind of discussion. sorry again

hey all,

just got sent home from school after it was closed due to flooding. on my drive home i saw a tree fallen onto a house and a number of other trees fallen onto the road, and alot of surface flooding. arrived home to no power and alot of trees fallen down.

96mm at Napier now! (since midnight)
http://www.tim.co.nz/weather/timsweather.htm

Hastings, actually.

Vertigo wrote:we havent had a real cyclone here

you mean Bola (should be bowler that coz it bowled a fair path) wasn't a real cyclone

tgsnoopy wrote:Argh, what's that bright light outside? My eye's...

Bound to be shortlived, but the sun is out at the moment.

for gawd sakes shuddup man - you'll scare it away !!

lots of news here on the storm so far:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4636468a11.html

kaimaikid wrote:

Vertigo wrote:we havent had a real cyclone here

you mean Bola (should be bowler that coz it bowled a fair path) wasn't a real cyclone

well..

wikipedia wrote: On March 4 Bola transitioned into an extratropical storm, passing to the north of the North Island of New Zealand on March 8.

..so technically not.. Funa falls into this category as well. we may well have had actual cyclones hit us in the past, however it would have been pretty long ago, and only the wisest of those among us would remember them . but Bola was a really good storm anyway, and the closest ive personally ever had to experiencing a tropical cyclone.

edit: impressive numbers tho..

wikipedia wrote: It turned to a southeast drift before executing a small cyclonic loop on March 1, during which the JTWC estimated Bola attained peak winds of 195 km/h (120 mph). At the same time, its minimum central pressure was estimated at 935 mbar.[4]

The Eastern Marlborough River levels are now rising rapidly
http://www.marlborough.govt.nz/enviromo ... ersmap.cfm
http://www.marlborough.govt.nz/enviromo ... ainmap.cfm
Canterbury next:-
http://www.ecan.govt.nz/Our+Environment ... -flows.htm

Really started to punch in here now – Inner Pelorus Sound !!!!
My boat doing the “Harlem Shuffle” on the end of the mooring rope

Not a great amount of rain as yet (17mm) my mates in Horowhenua and Kapiti are getting a hiding – but !!!!!

rain radar shows the low center west of the south kaipara heads, moving south
should get a N to NW change in wind direction here in another hour or so....
978.6hpa here
not far off my all time record that stood before the storm just a few days ago!

Ive been watching the river levels in the waikato with great intrest today. Looks like there is going to be some major flooding of some rivers.

I was talking to dad today and he has a main board drain run through the centre of his farm and he said it was already full at 9:30 and still raining heavily. Soooo i would think it has the potential to get close to the height it did in Feb 03 (i think it was 03.. you all know the Feb im talking about any way) where it backed up all the drains on the farm to the point where the garden and lawn were flooded nearly up to the door step along with numerous padoks. Ill get mum to go out and take some photos just before dark but i think it will peak in the middle of the night, unlike the Feb one where it peaked mid morning.