Tuesday: Heavy Rain and Thunderstorms in the North

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Tue 03/05/2005 23:18

67mm in one hr to 9pm in Tauranga this Evening

, thats a very big dump.
Here's the 9pm sat photo.

Fujita Phil · Unread post by **Fujita Phil** » Tue 03/05/2005 23:32

Blue dome blue dome

tgsnoopy · Unread post by **tgsnoopy** » Wed 04/05/2005 07:03

Since someone asked (via e-mail), the depth of the water outside was approximately 190mm above our inside floor level, not 190mm above the ground and only just above floor level.

There is a high point between the two sides of the house, we have created a race to water between the two sides, but it wasn't wide enough to prevent the built up on the driveway side. Probably just as well, as the other side had enough build up that it came in there!

I'm hoping we are about to get premission to lower the top on the retaining wall into the neighbours slightly, the flooding doesn't affect them as badly, their house is a pole platform, and they have good drainage off their property.

It's still raining, and increasing in intensity, I noticed it's swung round to the East now, I hope we aren't in for a repeat.

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Wed 04/05/2005 07:40

post a picture

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Wed 04/05/2005 07:48

Missed that late afternoon Cb out to our East, was inside working.

I saw it from Devonport...looked impressive.

I notice on the midday sounding for Auckland yesterday there some reasonable wind shear there. No doubt this wind shear assisted in the development of the cb's allowing rainfalls like 67mm in an hour to occur.

Manukau heads obs · Wed 04/05/2005 08:00

that sure is alot of rain

the rain radar shows that heavyu rain area moved up and over the coromendal overnight, and is now in the north hauraki gulf, rotating around the low center there
wish we could have had just 10mm more here to help things out...oh well, its May now, there should be more on the horizon soon, LOL
I see whakatane area got around 50mm too

RWood · Unread post by **RWood** » Wed 04/05/2005 08:05

Manukau heads observer wrote:that sure is alot of rain
the rain radar shows that heavyu rain area moved up and over the coromendal overnight, and is now in the north hauraki gulf, rotating around the low center there
wish we could have had just 10mm more here to help things out...oh well, its May now, there should be more on the horizon soon, LOL
I see whakatane area got around 50mm too

For a contrast (didn't want to open a new topic) - our mates in the West Island have been having a toasty time this year...

http://www.bom.gov.au/announcements/med ... 0502.shtml

Manukau heads obs · Wed 04/05/2005 08:33

seems we cant get away from what seems like global warming
after spending a month in europe/uk, and seeing the polution in the atmosphere there (they do not notice it, they are used to it) , i now have grave concerns about this fragile planet we live on

Manukau heads obs · Wed 04/05/2005 08:51

123mm totals i have heard coming out of taurange from that deluge!

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Wed 04/05/2005 10:30

The blue in the photo below is sheet lightning and the yellow is street lighting.

I thought for a moment (before properly reading the post) that you'd made a typo and put 'street lightning'

I guess these downpours must've been pretty intense, so as to result in localised surface flooding, rather than generalised flooding with rising rivers etc. For example Mt Maunganui is separate from any rivers flowing from the inland hills, and I can't recall any significant streams on the Mount itself, so there must've been an intense downpour right there.

tgsnoopy · Unread post by **tgsnoopy** » Wed 04/05/2005 20:29

03 Stormchaser wrote:post a picture

Sorry, I was at nightschool when it happened & my camera was at work.

I don't have any pictures I can show you.

If you watched TV One news, the guy who waded out of the double garage and was later heard saying we were lucky to get stuff out is an employee where I used to work. I couldn't get home due to the flooding and went there as I knew they were prone to flooding to see if I could help. They bent the living daylights out of the garage door opening it due to the weight of the water on it, but they needed to as it had a new $40,000 vehicle in there that belonged to a customer. It had over a metre of water in there within a couple of minutes of then getting it out.

The insurance company isn't very happy as they had just made repairs to the last flooding damage a couple of months ago.

Manukau heads obs · Wed 04/05/2005 20:48

The insurance company isn't very happy as they had just made repairs to the last flooding damage a couple of months ago

heavy rain events that are supposed to be 1 in 100 years seem to be occuring more like every year in Tauranga lately

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Wed 04/05/2005 21:30

Nice image here from White island crater cam tonight:

http://www.geonet.org.nz/images/volcams ... 4.1800.jpg

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Wed 04/05/2005 21:32

03 Stormchaser wrote:Nice image here from White island crater cam tonight:

http://www.geonet.org.nz/images/volcams ... 4.1800.jpg

Oooohhh...beautiful!

Cheers for the link! I'd never have seen it otherwise.

BTW, didn't some wag place an alien toy or similar near that webcam a few years back, and is it still there?

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Wed 04/05/2005 21:34

Yup sure is : )

I love it!

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Wed 04/05/2005 21:44

03 Stormchaser wrote:Yup sure is : )

I love it!

Haha! I saw a webpage about it once. I think it said a visitor to the island placed it there as a joke and when the staff saw it they adopted it as an unofficial mascot or similar. A neat story!

Manukau heads obs · Wed 04/05/2005 21:53

how come you south islanders keep poaching weather event threads in the north island...we dont do that to you guys (well if we do, shame on us)

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Wed 04/05/2005 21:58

Manukau heads observer wrote:how come you south islanders keep poaching weather event threads in the north island...we dont do that to you guys (well if we do, shame on us)

"Poaching"...?

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Wed 04/05/2005 23:07

Gary Roberts wrote:
Manukau heads observer wrote:how come you south islanders keep poaching weather event threads in the north island...we dont do that to you guys (well if we do, shame on us)
"Poaching"...?

The only thing I poach is eggs on my toast from our hens?????????

JohnGaul
NZTS

tgsnoopy · Unread post by **tgsnoopy** » Wed 04/05/2005 23:13

Gary Roberts wrote:BTW, didn't some wag place an alien toy or similar near that webcam a few years back, and is it still there?

The tour company that operates the tours on White Island is beleived to be responsible to placing a little purple dinosaur in the camera image. It got them international media attention and apparently has helped their business quite a lot.

As the camera is located in an off limits area, and the crew who placed it there are the same crew who transport the crew who maintain it

I imagine it's likely to last a while (It was still there last time I looked).

Oh, and it's not the Barney figure most parents love to hate, it Fred Flinstones pet Dino.

Dean. · Unread post by **Dean.** » Wed 04/05/2005 23:21

how come you south islanders keep poaching weather event threads in the north island...we dont do that to you guys (well if we do, shame on us)

Far Out

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Thu 05/05/2005 08:27

Deano wrote:how come you south islanders keep poaching weather event threads in the north island...we dont do that to you guys (well if we do, shame on us)

Far Out

uh, maybe its cos were from the same country!!

sheeesh!

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Thu 05/05/2005 08:46

Well we're not poaching your storms.

Much more settled (boring as some would say) weather down here under the ridge of high pressure.

ricky · Unread post by **ricky** » Thu 05/05/2005 09:06

thats just because you stole them all last month! lol

Manukau heads obs · Thu 05/05/2005 09:37

see here:
http://www.weatherforum.org.nz/forum/vi ... php?t=1250
I was getting back at those one eyed cantebrians who called me a spammer