Severe Easterly storm & Flooding, upper NI, 9 - 13th Jul

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Manukau heads observer wrote:62mm since midnight at whangerei now, and winds picking up in the city center there now too, gusting to 39kts:
http://www.hansenproducts.co.nz/weather/whangarei.htm

Gusting to 73 kts (135kmh) now at tutakaka ! (via nowcasting)
Wow, 161mm there now in Whangarei with recent gusts to 76 km/h!

Dim and dry here in Hamilton on 11°C with a steady ESE wind.
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Cold here with fresh E and light rain at times 12°
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Had one gust to 76 km/h here now and the average speed is really coming up, looking really stormy out there
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Mission Bay and the new Kohimarama Beach loosing a lot of their valuable sand this afternoon, will be the same along the North Shore Beaches.

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Foggy wrote:
Manukau heads observer wrote:62mm since midnight at whangerei now, and winds picking up in the city center there now too, gusting to 39kts:
http://www.hansenproducts.co.nz/weather/whangarei.htm

Gusting to 73 kts (135kmh) now at tutakaka ! (via nowcasting)
Wow, 161mm there now in Whangarei with recent gusts to 76 km/h!

Dim and dry here in Hamilton on 11°C with a steady ESE wind.
My God, 333mm now :shock:
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All wind records broken for the grey lynn weather station here now :) 86.5 km/h gust 70 km/h avearge and building..

many damage reports coming in, Waiheke ferries all cancelled and power off on the island, trains blocked by trees down, accidents on the harbour bridge from trucks blown around, broken moorings, many trees/power lines down now
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That Whangarei rainfall doesn't look correct. Must be a problem with the weather station.
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NZstorm wrote:That Whangarei rainfall doesn't look correct. Must be a problem with the weather station.
Probably wind gusts rocking the tipping mechanism.
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The wind in my part of Auckland really starting to pick up. Losing some roofing tiles off the Gazebo. Will have to deal with that in the morning. Just saw a distant flash of lightning to the north.
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Could that have been a power line flashover? any lightning is way up off Northland at the moment..

TV3 weather reported 265 i think mm rain in the far north, Kaikohe is showing 141mm last 24 hrs, and that was the largest report i could find
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Cripes they've now declared a state of emergency up there, and still it rains and blows. My heart goes out to those poor folk in the north, I have some mates up that way and they got badly beaten up by the last storm.

And looking at Metwuw theres more rain on the way there for Sunday Monday, on what will already be very drenched countryside.

This is bad. :cry:
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News TV 3 showed lot of flooding up north, Kerikeri and Kaeo are badly affected.

At the moment in Titirangi it is dry for the last 10 minutes, some wind but not bad at all.

Perhaps silence before the storm.

Harbour bridge lights are out as well as some areas on the north shore have power outages TV1 closeup news at the moment.

scottiedavies, quite a few power line flashovers have occured and were possibly the flash you saw.
Coming back from Albany via Hobsonville at around 1630 hrs had the powerlines swinging and bouncing in the wind allright.
Who put the LED's on the lightning arrestor ?
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Metservice now say the wind is 150km tonight for Auckland

Unconfirmed TV 3 report that harbour bridge is shut to all traffic

DOC have closed North Head due to falling trees
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scottiedavies wrote:The wind in my part of Auckland really starting to pick up. Losing some roofing tiles off the Gazebo. Will have to deal with that in the morning. Just saw a distant flash of lightning to the north.
It quite possible was a flashover. The first one i saw did look like lightning in the distance. A while later i saw another flash out the corner of my eye. It seemed to have a greenish colour to it, and looked a lot to be in the albany area. This i thought would have had something to do with the substation there.
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The roof of this apartment building has literally peeled off in the wind with insulation blowing all down the street. Just off Ponsonby Road. 4 Fire Appliances there and the Firemen don't know what to do!
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Ponsonby fire brigade assess damage to building.
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NZstorm wrote:The roof of this apartment building has literally peeled off in the wind with insulation blowing all down the street. Just off Ponsonby Road. 4 Fire Appliances there and the Firemen don't know what to do!
Bloody hell the Herald will want that photo!
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WOW!!!!
we are in Taupo 2 nite, visting relatives (i wanted to stay at home, LOL)
we eventualy got out of the rain at matamata

47 kts from the ESE at home, strongest from that direction for a long time
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Peak gust here at Auckland Airport was 53kts around 1730 this evening.
Lightning was reported as being visible to the south at 1900 however think it was probably powerlines arcing in the distance! No reports of CB activity or any deviations around weather which would normally be expected in these circumstances.
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Tired of the constant power flicks rebooting the machine...This wind is no worse than the standard SW we get ;)
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I see matamata gliding club got 55kts at one stage (after we came past!)
http://www.glidingmatamata.co.nz/weather.htm
(in the leee of the kaimai ranges)
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Just went for a short walk, the odd tree branch down around here.
Wind not as strong now as it was early evening.
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Wind not too bad here, Titirangi rd.
No rain for the last 2 hours.
Just back after a substation fault in Sabulite rd, West Auckland.
A few tree branches have fallen on powerlines and cause the odd feeder to trip and hence glitches on other circuits.
Large area in Glendene (Awaroa rd side) is without power at the moment. 33 kV blew into 11 kV and pothead exploded. No option to backfeed here.

Fireservice is quite busy on the North Shore and Whangaparoa, listening to the scanner.
Who put the LED's on the lightning arrestor ?
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when was the last time the North had a storm like this??
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squid wrote:when was the last time the North had a storm like this??
March 29th
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