General April Weather

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

A wet afternoon here as well.
The most predominant rainfall so far this year.
Light wes terlies, with the rain coming in from the north.
21.2mm to 5pm, this also recording the rain early this morning.

[Dean.]

Very similar readings here,hopefully the heavy rain is getting into North Canterbury where its much drier than down here.

[GreggWard]

Have seen quite a bit of distant lightning, down towards Levin/Kapiti Coast way, in the last hour. It has just quietened down in the last 20 mins. I am hoping it will move closer to Palmy, but looking at the radar, it's moving in a SSE direction.

[NZstorm]

Models showing shortwave crossing the North island tomorrow morning with thunder possible including West Auckland. For Auckland 500mb -21C with lapse rates modeled at 7C and we should still have moisture so looks positive.

[Bradley]

Up to 42mm here in West Melton, that's some serious rain for these parts over just a 5 hour period!!

[Richard]

Got 18mm here,so that will help get some descent grass growth going.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Yes, a generally wet day over Canterbury today with substantial rain over the plains, this afternoon, the first this year for something substantial like this. Interesting to see rainfall totals for today over the region.

[melja]

26mm for the event so far here in Rangiora.

[Dean.]

49mm since Monday morning here in Ashburton

[Richard]

26mm as of 6.00am,as John said first substantial rain of the year.

[snowstormwatcher]

32mm here

[Richard]

still a good steady rain here so we should get past the 30mm mark

[Manukau heads obs]

good news for the still drought affected areas

[Bradley]

Up to 62mm here in West Melton since Monday morning, we seem to have done exceedingly well for this event here!

[kiwisk8er]

We had a big thunderstorm last night lightning flashes happening every 20 second and we had continuous thunder for 10 minutes.

[Manukau heads obs]

thunder here just now with the squall line going through....

[Richard]

good news for the still drought affected areas

Unfortunately some areas missed out,Culverden only had 2.8mm Monday and other areas east of me had 7mm for the two days

[jamie]

Had some thunder, hail and squally winds today

[Dean.]

good news for the still drought affected areas

Unfortunately some areas missed out,Culverden only had 2.8mm Monday and other areas east of me had 7mm for the two days

How many fronts have stalled or weakened before hitting North Canterbury in the last six months?,some sort of force field around the area...

[Orion]

Rain-radar showing an interesting line of activity heading towards Banks Peninsula?

[NZstorm]

Models showing 500mb temp -25C tomorrow morning for Auckland. Also deep layer lapse rates 7.4C. Should be worth a rumble of thunder for west Auckland.

Looking like settled weather on the way from late week.

[spwill]

Unstable skies around Ak this morning but showers have largely missed my location, a cooler feel to our weather today, current 18C, overnight min was 10C.

[Tornado Tim]

Raglan got a good Thunderstorm last night apparently with marble sized hail.

[Orion]

Has been clear and sunny here today, but a southerly change has just bustled through in the last ten minutes.

[03Stormchaser]

Very gusty in Christchurch atm. Walked out from work in the cbd about 4pm and thought it felt like walking in 80km winds, I see the airport then was hitting 77kmph gusts.

Le Bons bay was 124kmph earlier