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22mm here and a fair amount of lightning and thunder around midnight

Overnight thundery rain in the Waikato but very little precip made it to Auckland City. Upto 35mm fell in North Waikato.

22mm at your place Brian and Ricky got 0mm.

Not even 1mm here, can't say I'm surprised...

3mm from the front. Had 4mm from showers earlier in the day.

The dry continues here.

Lightning last 24 hours......

Thanks for the lightning data Tim.

Looks like 2 main storm cells moved across. Otorohunga and north Waikato.

Met Service had on their FB site the rain radar estimated totals too...
my neighbour recorded 40mm in his gauge...(which is what Pukekohe got..)..and he is only just down the road...
and yet I only got 22mm
but the rain radar showed it was a very sharp edge where the heaviest rain was...and I was right on the edge

We did a tally for June 1 to end of March rainfall. Dairy season is June 1 to 31 May and we are only 750mm. To reach our average of 1200 we will need 450mm in the next 6 weeks.

In other words it's going to be a very dry season for us which explains why we are just so dry.

I see a pws in Pukekohe recorded 50mm between 1 and 3.30am. 24mm fell in an hr.

A quiet weather outlook for NZ with the Highs dominating. There is a slight chance Northland may catch some thundery weather on Saturday.

Looks like the latest gfs could be under doing the rain chances for the upper North Island this weekend. Both Ukmet and Eu suggest a wetter scenario. Upper level dynamics are not that great though but there is some good moisture there.

coromandel, hauraki gulf...hunua....will get the rain...
but north waikato..that still needs rain...wont get much...I would suggest

Stunning Autumn day today. Cool 8C min warmed up to 21C with mainly sunny skies

Yes a very nice Autumnal day today. Down to a crisp 1.9°C this morning....

GFS is showing very moist air over Northland tomorrow, a dewpoint of 19-20C . Upper air looks cool as well for a thunderstorm chance there, something to watch.

Warm today, up to 23.8Chere.

Why are you not happy about it being warm John, its bloody great.

it looked like we were going to miss the rain..but then a sudden burst of new rain band developed right over us
15mm

melja wrote:Why are you not happy about it being warm John, its bloody great.

No it's not. Did all this firewood and the days are not cold enough to enjoy it, well yet
Warm days are OK but it's really annoying when you don't get a thunderstorm development out of it like what has occurred most days with this useless El Nino pattern we have just had. 99%of people are enjoying this weather but I find it quite non-eventful, sadly

Manukau heads obs wrote:it looked like we were going to miss the rain..but then a sudden burst of new rain band developed right over us
15mm

2mm here

Only 7mm of patchy light rain for Howick. Could do with more, though that is the best rain in 3 weeks.

Steady light 32mm here so far today - mostly since about 11am.

I see Whitianga has had over 100mm today, Metservice showing 71.2mm there in the 6 hrs to 8pm.

Greylyn showing 16.2mm today, brighter weather here from mid afternoon.

Looking like a fine week with a trough due next weekend, and then fine again if you believe the gfs.
No cold outbreak on the cards for April.

Nearly had what one could call rain here this morning, but i reckon i could ripe up the road and there would still be dust behind me though. oh well, one day it will rain.