Rain...
Posted: Thu 08/12/2005 12:05
...at last. Not a lot, but better than nothing.
Real rain has finally set in and it looks as if it may last.03 Stormchaser wrote:Did get a few spits, nothing to write home about. but enough to write on the forum.
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.Jasestrm wrote:Gary thats good to hear should get plenty more welcome rain in the coming week here's hoping.
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.
Cheers
Jason.
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.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.