Heavy Rain, Easterlies developing

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Fri 25/11/2005 15:57

I see there's been Lightning up Northland way and the Tracker shows strikes out in the Tasman with that Low.

squid · Unread post by **squid** » Fri 25/11/2005 16:14

someone say heavey rain dargaville lol i nearly fell of my chair we i will keep you up to date so far we have a fesh east wind and convection showers and th eodd thunderstrom have fired up this afternoon I havent had any direct hits yet but I can see them around me

squid · Unread post by **squid** » Fri 25/11/2005 17:09

did i say that i havent had a direct hit may i correct my self just had a direct hit had 15mm in 15 mins between 4 30 and 4 45 pm and radar will prove it aswell wow beauty downpour no thunder or lightning just really heavy rain with gusty winds water runnig all over the place bring on more plz

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Fri 25/11/2005 17:18

Raining here now, though not heavy. What a change to the day!

spike_01 · Unread post by **spike_01** » Fri 25/11/2005 17:56

Met Service has sent out a warning for Northland , Auckland and BOP...

Manukau heads obs · Fri 25/11/2005 18:51

that other low in the tasman now has some big cb lines in it!
looks like the 2 will combine and we could get good rain alright

yes, the only sign that it might be raining by the end of the day was there was some towering cumulus out to sea this morning, which showed there was instability there (if you did not have any computer models!

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Fri 25/11/2005 19:33

A lot of rain on the radar this evening over Northland/Auckland.
Looks like the drought will be broken.

Manukau heads obs · Fri 25/11/2005 19:41

but there is a bit of a dry line running north south!
i.e lots of rain just offshore here, and west of kaipara and in the hauraki hulf and between dargavile and hokianga....the rain bands are moving south...so the dry slot to the north of us will mean the best of the rain will evade us here until it all fills in...which hpefully it will do overnight

Manukau heads obs · Fri 25/11/2005 19:43

but there is a bit of a dry line running north south!
i.e lots of rain just offshore here, and west of kaipara and in the hauraki hulf and between dargavile and hokianga....the rain bands are moving south...so the dry slot to the north of us will mean the best of the rain will evade us here until it all fills in...which hpefully it will do overnight

squid · Unread post by **squid** » Fri 25/11/2005 20:43

heavy rain is setting in now right on que rain all over the place on radar and it is intensfying by th elooks of it

spike_01 · Unread post by **spike_01** » Fri 25/11/2005 20:52

Easterly here and that is quite rare... No rain...

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Fri 25/11/2005 22:04

Rain wont arrive till the wind changes to the SE south of the plateau

Manukau heads obs · Fri 25/11/2005 22:34

heavier rain now to the north of us moving south, so thats good

that gap is filling in

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Fri 25/11/2005 23:03

Told 'ya so squid

Remaining dry so far this evening, light northeast breeze, 13c
Rain on the way soon though...

Interesting the satellite loop today.. it just all converged into one big fat heap!

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Sat 26/11/2005 00:30

Rain has arrived, mainly heavy now.

Achten · Unread post by **Achten** » Sat 26/11/2005 06:28

Send the rain to me, tanks are near empty, Iam hoping this baby goes south enough. They reckon it might

Manukau heads obs · Sat 26/11/2005 07:48

a nice drop of rain
(my rain gauge was over reading, i will investitage that)
20 to 30 mm recorded in the area

rain should move down into the kawkes bay
the cows i was milking this morning were shivering, some of them..only 10oC here at the moment....and its nearly summer!

at 5:30 am there was a big area of pink on the rain radar over the hunuas an firth of thames....looked very black over that way at first light!

43mm at cooks beach, coromandel
they are way behind for their annual rain total there too!

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sat 26/11/2005 08:14

the cows I was milking this morning were shivering,

Imagine what the cows would be like in the SI where there has been frost in places this morning.

Intermittent rain overnight with 18mm recorded at Grey Lynn. Good enough to water the garden.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sat 26/11/2005 08:33

Satellite indicates a large cb over North Auckland. Can't see much from here as there too much cloud.

Manukau heads obs · Sat 26/11/2005 09:04

yes, there is a 2nd front now, and rain radar shows a band of heavy rain over the kaipara, which is slow moving....will be some big totals there

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sat 26/11/2005 09:05

COLD,12C with a fresh Easterly.

I see Dunedin Airport had a temp of just 1C this morn. Cold enough to damage gardens and some horticultral crops down there on the Taieri.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Sat 26/11/2005 09:13

spwill wrote:COLD,12C with a fresh Easterly.

COLDER

, 9.4c, rain, easterlies also
19mm so far today.. a bit more than I had expected here.

Southerlies developing this afternoon for Auckland, and will persist through to Monday.

Manukau heads obs · Sat 26/11/2005 09:26

cows can handle frost much better, as there is no wind ....but wind and rain is much colder on exposed bodies

the deepening of the system must have added to the temperature drop, plus there was a big cold injection from that front that went up the east coast the day before
when you get a temperature drop like that, and the DP was 10oC, then you get lots of rain, despite the realtively low DP to start with...
30 kt gusts here from the SE (53 kph)

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sat 26/11/2005 09:40

Thats the end of rain for a while. Looks like we are now in for a prolonged sunny dry spell.

Gisborne is in for a wet period.

Manukau heads obs · Sat 26/11/2005 10:18

vibration from the strong SE wind caused my rain gauge to give false tips
I just now put some more guy wires on it....its the strongest SEer we have had for a long time...
I am going to increase the height of the mast for the windspeed to 10m next too (standard height)