Drought breaking heavy rain, NI & Upper SI, 28th-2nd

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Thu 29/03/2007 14:36

Mostly light to mod rain here, 38mm over 24hrs. Dewpoints are a humid 18C.
Satellite pic suggests we may get some heavy showers building in from the NW this evening.

Edit 3.25pm Rain heavy now with a fresh to strong NE

Manukau heads obs · Thu 29/03/2007 15:30

the back edge of the frontal rain line from here, looking WNW
and looking towards auckland city
rainbow is after the front has moved off us

ricky · Unread post by **ricky** » Thu 29/03/2007 15:36

Fortunately looks like the heavy rain is clearing Northland for now, well western anyway... yes, reports are coming in of bad flooding, buildings washed away at Haruru falls etc, emergency services having a hard time getting in.. News will be worth a watch tonight!

I'm getting a lot of noise on the boltek from this rain which points to it being from quite deep Cb convection now, the sort of thing that is usually not far from a thunderstorm.. Convection and lightning is very active out west to sea

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Thu 29/03/2007 16:14

Strong NE with heavy rain here yet I can see the sun out to the West.

GreyLynn showing 14.4mm in the last hour.

Brassnz · Unread post by **Brassnz** » Thu 29/03/2007 16:23

Here in Takapuna we've had rain on & off for most of the day - torrential rain for the last 90 minutes or so, but now easing... The roads will be chaos tonight.

ricky · Unread post by **ricky** » Thu 29/03/2007 16:32

I see one Whangarei weather station has recorded 184mm in the 15hrs since midnight!

http://www.hansenproducts.co.nz/weather/whangarei.htm

Manukau heads obs · Thu 29/03/2007 16:37

and 32mm before that, so over 210mm there, WOW!

spike_01 · Unread post by **spike_01** » Thu 29/03/2007 17:23

No rain here worth mentioning...

Some pics and stories here ;

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Community/Mess ... d=16343656

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Thu 29/03/2007 18:44

A friend who lives at Waipu Cove tell me homes are flooded there and it's still raining.

KiwiWeather · Unread post by **KiwiWeather** » Thu 29/03/2007 18:52

It was weird driving home this evening.

I drove into sunlight, had to put my sunnies on. Very dark towards the east, garnished by a delightful rainbow, however, brilliant sunshine and blue skies to the west.

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Thu 29/03/2007 20:29

Sounds like there were some really good key ingrediants to create that moisture in such a short time especailly over Northland.
I also heard on the radio about trees down due to high winds so how strong were the E-NE winds up there? also a report of a lightning strike hitting a tree near Kaitaia somewhere.
Overcast here again today but not cold making it to 18C although very isolated light rain or drizzle patches where it was rather dry in more eastern suburbs and perhaps central city but wet out near the airport and the port hills.
All we had was a few spits around mid afternoon other then that quite dry considering rain was forecast and yet 5 minutes up the road the grounds were wet.
Looks like it may swing more N-NW by the weknd for a change.
Cheers
Jason.

TonyT · Unread post by **TonyT** » Thu 29/03/2007 20:54

It may have been a drought breaker in Northland, but the drought is still biting here in North Canterbury - 14mm so far this month, 5mm last month, 51mm since the beginning of the year, most of that in the first two weeks of January.

Manukau heads obs · Thu 29/03/2007 21:28

we got gusts to 39kts here Jason, but more exposed places along northlands east coast would have been stronger than that
the station I have on the western coast here is on top of a 700 foot hill that is very exposed to the NEer....58 kts record there last night (pressure wind (the barometer suddenly jumped up as the wind dropped a bit)

dija · Unread post by **dija** » Thu 29/03/2007 23:00

TonyT wrote:It may have been a drought breaker in Northland, but the drought is still biting here in North Canterbury - 14mm so far this month, 5mm last month, 51mm since the beginning of the year, most of that in the first two weeks of January.

Crikey and here i was moaning about how little rain we've had

Like spike, we've had practically none today yet again. 0.4mm

KiwiWeather · Unread post by **KiwiWeather** » Thu 29/03/2007 23:11

Where are these predicted thunderstorms hiding?

Storm Vue is null & void.

Manukau heads obs · Fri 30/03/2007 06:36

there was activity on that 2nd front....until it actualy got here....

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Fri 30/03/2007 06:59

The rain has finally gone. Auckland City got 82mm off the system. Whangarei got 225mm.

Manukau heads obs · Fri 30/03/2007 07:19

a photo of the back of the (2nd) front (notice one nice big boil up), and showing fog sitting over the city in a wave like pattern

Ricky got 2x the rain total we got , as the rain petered out over our area all the time --interesting dynamics happening yesterday!

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Fri 30/03/2007 09:18

A spectacular 417mm fell in the hills near kerikeri.
I'm heading up to Matauri Bay on Monday for a few days, the coast line up there will be a mess.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Fri 30/03/2007 09:40

Still a distinct band of heavy rain hitting the Coromandel Peninsular..
http://www.ew.govt.nz/enviroinfo/riverl ... _9_110.htm
Would be one to watch.

Dewpoint 19C here with drizzle, up to 20C already in Tauranga...
160mm over the last 24 hours there, just 20.6mm here.

dija · Unread post by **dija** » Fri 30/03/2007 09:53

0.4mm total here, very hot with clear skies 26.6Â° already.

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Fri 30/03/2007 10:39

Sunny and warm in Chch for a change in Chch this morning (after early fog cleared) - flow must've gone more northerly.

I guess there has been some really big surf on the northeastern coasts from this storm.

Manukau heads obs · Fri 30/03/2007 12:49

i guess the rain quickly eased from auckland south because that is where the front turned into a warm front, being SE of the low center that was west of northland

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Fri 30/03/2007 14:11

Appears to be a redevelopment of convective shower activity in Auckland. Hosing down accross Rangitoto towards Mission Bay right now, very heavy rain

RWood · Unread post by **RWood** » Fri 30/03/2007 17:10

Glorious day here, went to beach.