Moist, mild and gusty this weekend

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sat 26/08/2006 18:24

Looks like an active line of showers to cross Auckland shortly, Northland more in the firing line.

RWood · Unread post by **RWood** » Sat 26/08/2006 18:30

With 60mm of rain at Kelburn overnight to 9am the winter total now comes to 580mm - with more having fallen, perhaps another 25mm, it looks likely that only the 1881 (!) total of 640+ mm will beat it. Ironically, that years' annual total was near average.

GraemeWi · Unread post by **GraemeWi** » Sat 26/08/2006 18:55

Thunder - aka music to my ears - out in far west Auckland. Showing up on the tracker very well!

G

Manukau heads obs · Sat 26/08/2006 19:05

lucky you guys!
its going to go to the north of me here
looks good on the rain radar and tracker!

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sat 26/08/2006 19:19

Yes, North Auckland I think.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sat 26/08/2006 19:25

Downpour here now, distant Lightning to the North.

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Sat 26/08/2006 19:27

Just crappy heavy rain here

ricky · Unread post by **ricky** » Sat 26/08/2006 19:28

Heavy rain here in Grey Lynn now, just after i got the generator in

we had a power failure here for about 1 1/2 hours
.. did see some distant lightning flickers to the northwest

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sat 26/08/2006 19:37

Lightning/distant thunder to north of here.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sat 26/08/2006 19:39

Yes, Thunder heard here, storm not too far away.

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Sat 26/08/2006 19:41

yeah, heard some VERY distant thunder. Coming our way guys?

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Sat 26/08/2006 19:46

Lightning with thunder 3 seconds difference

KiwiWeather · Unread post by **KiwiWeather** » Sat 26/08/2006 19:47

Just had a lovely brilliant flash, stunning boom - party party party

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Sat 26/08/2006 19:51

still nothing here

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Sat 26/08/2006 19:59

By contrast, it's mostly cleared up in Chch now. A rather dull day here - only had a few brief spits of rain, but according to the rain radar, more persistent rain/shower activity was only just to the north of us.

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Sat 26/08/2006 20:00

wow!!!! about 9 intra cloud flashes in 3 seconds way out to the east of here. Nice rippling thunder

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Sat 26/08/2006 20:12

Since then only 2 visible sporadic flashes to my north

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Sat 26/08/2006 20:17

Well wasn't that exciting? That was our south west wind change then wasn't it? Humid warm air being absorbed by the arrival of a cold front

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Sun 27/08/2006 08:06

By contrast, it's mostly cleared up in Chch now.

Clearance wasn't lasting - we had a heavy shower about 1am. Still cloudy, but looks like it should clear this morning.

janewaystv · Unread post by **janewaystv** » Sun 27/08/2006 10:48

RWood wrote:With 60mm of rain at Kelburn overnight to 9am the winter total now comes to 580mm - with more having fallen, perhaps another 25mm, it looks likely that only the 1881 (!) total of 640+ mm will beat it. Ironically, that years' annual total was near average.

Would that be the wettest August for years

RWood · Unread post by **RWood** » Sun 27/08/2006 11:08

It will be, but I don't have data past 9am yesterday for this month yet. Of the last 13 (1993-2005), 8 have been below average - last Aug. being the driest for 70 years - 3 average and only 2 above average. 1990 had 202mm and 1979 203 mm. These should be beaten, but not 1975's 246mm let alone the record 269mm from 1967.

As a slight oddity, despite this possibly being the wettest winter for 120+ years, sunshine here was above average in June and July and should show a small surplus for this month also. So while it has been a dramatic winter with the big rain events, I don't put it in the more miserable category with winters like 1977 (dullest, as well as being wet) and 1981. There have been more days than usual when I could sit in the sun at a decent coffee spot near my workplace.

Update: 40mm at Kelburn for Saturday, bringing the total rainfall from Friday night to 100mm. Monthly total now 206mm, so now the winter's total is 623mm, with just 643mm in 1881 to beat.

It should be noted though that the EWS rain data (2005 onwards) appears from "overlap" data to be 3-4% higher than that from the previous manual records.

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Sun 27/08/2006 12:54

Heading into town last night there was some CU about with a few isolated showers about so a little bit of unstable air about.
Yes Tich a heavy dolop of rain and abit of hail too around 1am I was patiently waiting for a clap of thunder but not quite

.
Cheers
Jason.

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Sun 27/08/2006 13:06

Jasestrm wrote:Heading into town last night there was some CU about with a few isolated showers about so a little bit of unstable air about.
Yes Tich a heavy dolop of rain and abit of hail too around 1am I was patiently waiting for a clap of thunder but not quite .
Cheers
Jason.

Noticed the hail here aswell about 1am.

mikestormchaser · Unread post by **mikestormchaser** » Sun 27/08/2006 23:18

yes! there was a heavy rain/hail shower last night bout 1am. I never expected it eh. And also waiting to hear that first clap of thunder but nothing happend

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sun 27/08/2006 23:30

I was a bit inebreated after drinking cider at our wassailing outing at Dunsandel so was unaware of any heavy downpours around 1am this morning.
However the were lots of interesting cloud forms yesterday across the plains.
Coming home in the bus around 6pm we went through a rather heavy shower around Burnham. There was nothing in my rain gauge at West Melton this morning.
2mm I recorded here in Somerfield from the rain early this morning.

JohnGaul
NZTS