General May Weather

[Manukau heads obs]

the front looks to have stalled ...
wind has dropped away here ...
rain off and on...looks like that will be the case for some hours now here

[David]

I've recorded 27mm since 8pm last night. GFS was picking around 50mm.

[Nev]

Currently up to 31mm here since about 10pm last night.

Below is a nice little graphic summary of rainfall for the last 3 days to 9am this morn ℅ MetService…

MetService 3 day 24 hr rainfalls to May 8, 9am.jpeg

[melja]

Once again those silly graphic charts are highly miss leading, Hoki only had 2.8mm yesterday and Haast 5.2mm so not the widespread heavy rain yesterday on the coast as it shows.
My folks in Kumara Junction said it was dry all day yesterday.

[Razor]

Once again those silly graphic charts are highly miss leading, Hoki only had 2.8mm yesterday and Haast 5.2mm so not the widespread heavy rain yesterday on the coast as it shows.
My folks in Kumara Junction said it was dry all day yesterday.

To defend the graphs...the 3rd one (last 24 hours) seems to marry up perfectly with your Kumara figures quoted. Where's the problem here?

West Coast regional council raw data also attached

[melja]

That chart shows between 15-25mm for hoki yeterday and 75-100mm for haast so just a little different from 2mm and 5mm they had.
I was just pointing out how they can be miss leading.

[Nev]

To be fair, both sites are virtually on the coast and, based on the 24 hours to 9am this morn, MS's Hokitika Aero site actually recorded 5.8mm, its Haast site 9.8mm and, not too far inland, Franz Josef Aero recorded 31.8mm.

[ben g]

35 here from that, looks like the front has beefed up over the gulf on latest radar. Like always.
Second looks it's well off the east coast on coromandel :s

[Richard]

Another windy night here which must be really drying out the 30mm we had here two weeks ago,areas to the east of here that had little of that rain its only making the drought even worse and no signs of good rain in the next week.

[Nev]

Ended up with 36mm from that event here (same as Whangaparaoa). A nice sunny 20C here today.

I see MetService have revised the last 2 days of that previous rainfall graphic and added the last 24 hours to 9am this morn…

MetService 3 day 24 hr rainfalls to May 9, 9am.png

[David]

Ended up with 36mm from that event here (same as Whangaparaoa). A nice sunny 20C here today.

We got 36mm in Howick too. Sounds like the rain totals were quite uniform across the region.

[melja]

Nervous times for ski fields with some only 4 weeks from opening and this warm wet westerly weather hanging in there.

[matttbs]

Nervous times for ski fields with some only 4 weeks from opening and this warm wet westerly weather hanging in there.

Still too early to be nervous, all it takes is 1 good dump and they will be away. Plenty of time left

[Bradley]

Christchurch will be running around 4-5C above the May average max by mid-May, unless the second half of the month is way below average it will turn out to be the warmest May on record by my estimations

[Richard]

Noticed a bit of Australian bushfire smoke last evening and this morning,from a controlled burn near Pewsey Vale in SA i would think its coming from.
Another windy day coming up

[matttbs]

Big lightning over my house at the moment

[matttbs]

Can't hear any thunder though?

[matttbs]

A reasonable size TS developing by mt peel, metservice have no mention for TS in canty today

[Orion]

It's gone southerly, got much darker & beginning to spit with rain here.

[matttbs]

Thunder, lightning, heavy rain and hail here

[melja]

Someone wakeup metservice! Thats piss poor.

[matttbs]

Couple photos, storm incoming and hail settling. Everything's all white now and still hailing

[Orion]

Deep rumbly peal of thunder here just now.

[carrot]

Decent size hail in riccarton with thunder and lightning

[Razor]

Large hail in ChCh CBD. That one crept up, looked quite minor til it arrived!

Some welcome birthday weather action