Subtropical Low/TC Innis 20th-21st Feb

[Manukau heads obs]

report from the wife who is passing through thames that there is thunder and lightning there

[Tornado Tim]

thats interesting because I checked both ULD and nexstorm and it didnt pick up the thunderstorm.
might be really weak?

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Clearing now, radar backs it up. Some BLUE SKY!! Sun trying to come out and cloud looking a lot higher. Maybe cricket will be on tomorrow with a drying Northeasterly and rather humid conditions

Rain, heavy at times about the hills south of Timaru, but just scattered falls north of Rangiora. Rain easing during the afternoon and skies clearing in the north by evening. Southeasterlies,strong in exposed places south of Ashburton, turning northwest in the north during the afternoon.

Doesn't sound too promising....

Yeah but thats interesting when them saying rain easing tomorrow evening when its stopped here a day before. All the rain on the radar is now around Ashburton and southwards. Could be lucky.

[NZstorm]

The NZWP 00Z sounding shows t/cu tops to 5000m is what gave our rainfall a boost today. In Penrose where I was working today we had some very heavy showers late am/early pm amoungst the constant rain.

[Manukau heads obs]

basicly in the clouds here this evening now
very murky
still on 20.1C DP

I would say another cold front will develop to clear out this warm and moist air mass yet
could be some thunder on the cards tomorrow?

[Storm Struck]

Somewhat cooler now on 14C with very light drizzly stuff now and then, and a strong easterly which has just picked up as of the last 30 minutes.
Averaging 30kmh gusting 45kmh at the moment.
Cheers
Jason.

[TokWW]

Sth Waikato was featuring in most of the forecasts on Thursday - esp the eastern hills, well we had a quiet night with rain starting at 3am with light nor-easters, and 16mm by 9am. It slowly gathered pace, and received a further 61mm by 5pm. Total then to date now 20:45 is 79.3mm. Max T was 21.2ºC with DP depression around 2ºC all day, same now.

Max gust was 52km/hr at 3pm in a quieter rain spell which started just at a bump in the baro. Has levelled out again at 1005hPa. Winds were NW ever since the bump, but reducing now. Skies are clearing from the west. Should be very muggy again tomorrow if the sun comes out...

[Manukau heads obs]

the low is moving east faster than models thought just at the moment....the wrap around rain band might get across into canty yet....but the low might do a loop the loop yet?

[TokWW]

Seeing quite a few lightning strikes down towards Napier and Hastings through the inner hills, plus still some way out east of BOP as seen on StormTracker. Hawkes Bay Not confirmed though.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Winds gusting to 50km/h. Windchill at -1 with that gust. Around 15 degrees at the moment. Looks like some new development threatening the Christchurch City region. Hopefully that stays clear or if it is going to rain it poors. Mainly light at the moment however. Currently it is dry and windy.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

the low is moving east faster than models thought just at the moment....the wrap around rain band might get across into canty yet....but the low might do a loop the loop yet?

What does that mean for canterbury do you think?

[Manukau heads obs]

looks like more rain for canty now...as the low centre moves closer

[melja]

Big difference in rainfall between chch and rangiora at only 30kms away, we have had 54mm so far and its starting to come down good again in the last hour with the wind now picking up so maybe the low is going to drop more rain on the area to the north of chch than metservice thinks

Had 42mm between 8am and 1pm so not bad going for this area.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Yeah you have. Only about 20mm in my area and peaking to around 30mm tops in some suburbs. Just been for a drive and very heavy drizzle is sweeping horizontally out there now. Especially in the city centre!

[mikestormchaser]

Yeah heavy drizzle coming in now almost steady rain.. that Easterly has sure picked up as jase said.
Be interesting to see what happens tomorrow id say we'll wake up to the same stuff lol

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Very nice band of rain starting to show now on the 11pm radar. Heavy falls in the area too. Hopefully some good solid rain overnight

[melja]

Coming down thick and fast for the last hour or so now, 5mm an hour.

[Janos]

Good steady rain and cold 9.9deg 22.2 mm of rain so far.

[Storm Struck]

Light rain here now just about steady, amazing contrasts in rain depth just kilometres away.
Could well be some big totals overnight.
Edit. 5 minutes later and its heavy rain on the roof .
Cheers
Jason.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Raining quite steadily here with a keen ENE.

....by the way good to see Steven Graham's weather station back on line at Templeton

JohnGaul
NZThS

[Chris Raine]

Sound of heavy rain woke me up at 3am. Currently raining at 7.2mm an hour.If this keeps up coud be some problems on the roads later today

[Tornado Tim]

another 3.00mm of rain fell at 4 AM. Now partly cloudy skies.

[Manukau heads obs]

great looking cirro cumulus passing over here at the moment

[Tornado Tim]

Look at this, You can see the cloud band bringing the heavy rain to the SI.
Quality of the pic is not that good on here due to shrinkage and filesize.
Let me know if you want to a raw copy...
Original format: PICT
Credit: Earthdesk

[Nev]

Ended up with 38mm out of that system here - MTD 73mm (Jan only 23mm), so very happy.

Re the North Island, not too sure which set of figures below to believe, so take your pick...

Rain set to get blown away
4:00AM Saturday Feb 21, 2009 - NZ Herald
...MetService heavy rain warnings proved well-founded yesterday. Many places were drenched, including Wellington - where 70mm of rain fell - while those in Lower Hutt had to be quick to avoid the puddles after a rainfall of 83mm... The wettest place yesterday was the Taranaki Regional Council site on the visitor's centre in North Egmont, where 303mm of rain fell, while Inglewood had 112mm of rain... In Auckland, rainfall of 37mm soaked some people's hopes of a fine night out...

Taranaki bears brunt of bad weather
Saturday, 21 February 2009 - Taranaki Daily News
...While the whole country was drenched, Taranaki got the heaviest dumping with 301mm at North Egmont, 174mm at Dawson Falls and 108mm at Inglewood.

The Pinnacles on the Coromandel Peninsula also ended up with 174mm and the township of Whitianga apparently with 80mm.