General October Weather

[melja]

36mm yesterday and 20mm already this morning with continuous rain. This wet year is just crazy.


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[NZstorm]

Airmass turning unstable over the North Island for the next couple of days evidenced by the 700-500mb lapse rates which will be around 7C. Isolated thunderstorms could pop up in a few spots, particularly Monday afternoon.

Drizzle 15C in Auckland this morning. 16mm here overnight.

[Bradley]

36mm so far from this system

This would now have to be one of the wettest first 9 months of a year for your part of the world you could remember Richard?

[David]

Drizzle 15C in Auckland this morning. 16mm here overnight.

18mm here. Seems to have cleared earlier than originally expected.

[Richard]

36mm so far from this system

This would now have to be one of the wettest first 9 months of a year for your part of the world you could remember Richard?

No its been a lot wetter than this in past years, we have a watercourse that i seen 1m deep and 4-5m wide flowing at maybe 1/2m a sec. Had a look this morning and there's a bit of water laying in the lowest spots, another 30-40mm and it might start flowing. The water table near the house is at 1.2m have seen it at 30cm.

[Richard]

36mm so far from this system

Thats odd, now showing 34mm and its been lightly raining all morning

[snowstormwatcher]

36mm so far from this system

Thats odd, now showing 34mm and its been lightly raining all morning

is it a weather station electronic gauge? if so its probably just Showing 24hr rain total rather than total event?

its Been continuous light rain here since Friday night.. 21mm in total..

[Richard]

This is NIWA's one out in my paddock, its showing the last 48 hours and at the time i posted the 36mm, well its was 35.9 but i rounded off, now says 27.4mm at that time, bit of a head scratcher

[spwill]

Dewpoint here is 16C, very moist air for the time of year.
Some solid looking Cu clouds over South Auckland now

[NZstorm]

Some beefy showers out to NW of here and have seen 1 lightning strike.

[melja]

My rainfall in Rangiora the last 2 days.

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[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Interesting.
Your place must be waterlogged.

[tich]

This is NIWA's one out in my paddock, its showing the last 48 hours and at the time i posted the 36mm, well its was 35.9 but i rounded off, now says 27.4mm at that time, bit of a head scratcher

Went up to Hanmer for the day yesterday - it was wet all the way, with ponding on side of road in places. Good day to soak in the hot pools.

[Richard]

Nice place to be when its either raining or snowing.

[Cyclone Tracy]

Sun just came out, air temp went to 21.5c and Dew point to 19.4c. Things might erupt this afternoon if this sun creates a nice little convection oven.

[NZstorm]

My thinking today is for isolated thunderstorm possible north of Helensville and south of Hamilton. The area from Hamilton to Auckland could suffer from moisture mixing out.

[Razor]

My rainfall in Rangiora the last 2 days

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Not even a quarter of that total here! about 15mm all told since Friday

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

I see that it got to 24.1C in Milford Sound yesterday.
Must be a record there for October.

[spwill]

Afternoon showers developing in the west here today, a weak storm over the Waitaks. Some Thunderstorm activity showing up southwest of Hamilton last hr or two.

[Cyclone Tracy]

some clouds top now near -50c, 100 km/h north of Auckland.

[spwill]

A convergence line running through the west with isolated thunderstorms, someone is getting a lot of rain, dry here. Photo from here looking NW

[NZstorm]

Looks like there was some thunder from Helensville to Kemu.

Good pic there spwill.

[NZstorm]

There is a PWS near Waimakau (NW Auckland) that has recorded 49mm since 2pm with 19mm last hr.

A dry day for greater Auckland though.

[GraemeWi]

My wife reported lots of thunder and hail at her work in Massey, and later when I drove home from the shore it was very heavy rain with roadside drains overworked, and streams of water over the road. We got about 30mm in a couple of hours at home which appeared to have missed the worst of it.

[mikestormchaser]

A few bubbly cloud build ups look likely inland Canterbury today.
Models suggesting thunderstorms around that area this afternoon.