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Gary Roberts
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Rain...

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...at last. Not a lot, but better than nothing.
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Darkening northwest arch to west of Chch - 4pm radar shows light rain just reaching the city, but nothing here (does the radar pick up virga?)
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Did get a few spits, nothing to write home about. but enough to write on the forum.
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03 Stormchaser wrote:Did get a few spits, nothing to write home about. but enough to write on the forum.
Real rain has finally set in and it looks as if it may last.
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Gary thats good to hear should get plenty more welcome rain in the coming week here's hoping. :D
Drizzle falling here at the moment probly be off and on all night then some tomorrow morning clear around midday then rain sets in at night.
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Jasestrm wrote:Gary thats good to hear should get plenty more welcome rain in the coming week here's hoping. :D
Drizzle falling here at the moment probly be off and on all night then some tomorrow morning clear around midday then rain sets in at night.
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It's clearing now, but fingers crossed. We need a lot more of it into the divide catchment. I used to feed the trout and salmon from the lunchroom at Tekapo-B but now the water's edge has receded well out into the lake.
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Not too hopeful a prospect in the current regime, but maybe...
Lovely here at present with sunshine and high cloud to the north, but there are indicators of a later moisture invasion - banks of low cloud in the seas to the southeast and tendrils of the stuff creeping over parts of the Orongorongos.
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RWood wrote:Not too hopeful a prospect in the current regime, but maybe...
Lovely here at present with sunshine and high cloud to the north, but there are indicators of a later moisture invasion - banks of low cloud in the seas to the southeast and tendrils of the stuff creeping over parts of the Orongorongos.
The last two Christmas/New Year periods in the Mackenzie have been dismal (ie, lots of rain) so perhaps this year'll be three-in-a-row and the lakes could be replenished. Otherwise the country should brace itself for power restrictions. Besides farmers of course. Never any restrictions there. :roll: