Thankyou.squid wrote:oh btw my weather station is a weathermax one oh man sorry about the typos in that last post i was trying to say that there are quite a few strikes being picked up to the NW of northland atm and that was basically it and also that we need a weather system to flush out all this humidity phew it is sticky
80mm in 1 hour is incredibly, stupendously (can't think of words to describe such an extreme intensity) heavy rain. The only other occasion I've heard about in NZ where that hourly total has been reached was during a thunderstorm somewhere near Alexandra in November 1992. (which involved very heavy hail)No, the 80mm we got in an hour back in May was heavy rain.
Internationally it's above 6mm/h... think the Metservice use that too..tich wrote:80mm in 1 hour is incredibly, stupendously (can't think of words to describe such an extreme intensity) heavy rain. The only other occasion I've heard about in NZ where that hourly total has been reached was during a thunderstorm somewhere near Alexandra in November 1992. (which involved very heavy hail)No, the 80mm we got in an hour back in May was heavy rain.
18mm is still pretty intense, more than what I usually see on the 3 hour obs during rain events. I think anything more than 5mm in an hour is defined as heavy, according to MetService.
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would be cool to see the skys cracking up again So true.. im sticking up bad in 25c/dp 21csquid wrote:very humid calm with baro of 998 something has got to give this remids me of when i lived in Far North Qld at this time of year
A very warm moist airmass resident over the North Island coupled with cooling temperatures aloft over central and southern areas, will produce widespread shower activity there today. The highest risk of thunderstorms is expected over southern Hawkes Bay and Wairarapa as a wind shift line moves northeast.These storms may produce rainfall amounts of 10 to 25mm/hr in some places.
Further afield, there is a moderate chance of thunderstorms and heavy showers from about Waikato, to the central plateau and around to Wanganui and Manawatu through this morning and afternoon. There, storm motions should limit rainfall amounts to about 15mm in an hour. In the Wellington area, a cold front could trigger one or two thunderstorms in the more northern parts of the district for a short time early this afternoon.
Low thunderstorms risk exist in the Auckland and Coromandel Peninsula area this morning,central and eastern parts of the Bay of Plenty this afternoon and this evening in Gisborne as a front moves northward.
-MetService
.. and if you don't happen to get saturated on the outside, you'll get saturated from sweat! 
Edit: woah 3mm/min at my ham east station at the moment!Regional picture
There has been very heavy rainfall (up to 300mm) recorded on the Coromandel and Kaimai Ranges over the past 24 hours. The heavy rain warning that was in effect for much of yesterday has now been lifted as the storm front heads south across the North Island. The Pinnacles rainfall site recorded the maximum total of 325mm over a 30 hour period (measured between 3am Tuesday 24 January to 7am Wednesday 25 January). Maximum intensities peaked at 40mm/hour.
Only the Waihou River recorder site at Te Aroha remains above alarm at this stage (9.98 metres above mean sea level). The other river systems which were above alarm last night (such as the Ohinemuri, Kauaeranga, and the Mangatangi) have all quickly receded below their alarm points this morning.
Lake Taupo’s level is currently 357.04 metres above mean sea level and rising. Lake Waikare’s level is currently 5.53 metes above mean sea level and falling.
-Environment Waikato
