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Re: Tropical Cyclone FUNA

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depends where you see the center, its hard to tell on infrared. id go with S-SSW right now.

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edit again: make that SSW definately now.
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Yer...

The "eye" - or what's left of it, is pretty clear here but I haven't been tracking it so I cant tell if it's made it's turn.

http://www.goes.noaa.gov/sohemi/SHGMSCOL.JPG


If your picking S-SSW then it probably has started to swing...
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yea using my eyes, i realise ive been looking in the wrong place for the center, its defaintely almost SW now. now i see that it seems to have thrown a large part of its SE quadrant down to us (:D) , which i thought was nearer the center and threw me off.

funny how clear the center seems when you finally see it :P

that would make this a very good match for the models so far then.

edit: look out norfolk island!
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Here's an extract of a poem I wrote concerning TC Funa

Cyclone Funa , a bit of a spooner
for what you are worth.
We need more of you to come sooner
to replenish the soil of our earth.
La Nina conditions have come to stay
Well, for a little while
then
we are dry down New Zealand way so show us what you are worth.
Please no Nw gales
Or dry southerlies to tease
We need good rain to soak our earth
And no damage to property
For what it is worth.

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Wind has pretty much died here. Had a about 2 spits of rain here before :roll: .
Had some neat cloud formations just this side of the kaimai ranges this afternoon. I suspect they were from the strong easterly winds coming over the ranges which were making the neat formations.
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still getting some wind here, not as much as before tho. rain didnt turn into much either. is this going to be it for auckland?
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It's been very windy here in West Melton for much of the day from the NE.
Clear skies though

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The weather here is a bit like John's poem.
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Looks rather patchy light rain over the Auckland area at the moment, It could well increase yet just never know.
I am picking areas like Hanmer Springs could get some big gusts from the N-NW on Tuesday afternoon, otherwise gale winds everywhere else with some welcome rain hopefully atleast a good 10-20mm would be good.
South Canty might get a few heavy falls :-k Depressions like this are hard to predict until they actually happen.
Fresh to strong NE here all day with some nice waves around the estruary and Sumner way, a kite surfers dream day.
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much beefier shower lines moving onto the far north now in a what looks like a Gale NE wind
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How big were the waves? And nooooooooo I don't want rain! 4.2mm of rain so far at the airport this month, whats the record low, for a month in Christchurch?
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who thinks northland/auckland will get another lashing on its way S-SSE?
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For January at the Gardens, it's 0.8mm (1871).
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Geez! I don't care if it rains now haha. And I thought 4mm was low..
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There have been 21 months in the Chch record with <4.2mm, the most recent being in Feb 2001. So, thats about a 7 year return period - not that unusual. Its when you get two in a row it starts to get interesting... :shock:
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seem like its slowing down its SW movement.,...and almost going west....it might then loop the loop before tracking SE....
Norkolk island must getting strong winds now, or soon,,,

warm night here,,,,cant sleep
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Yes been very windy here, Jeff's station just about cracked 400 km wind run, will definitely get to 400 by the end of the day.
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yes, its stopped moving SW now...has stopped althogether its movment now....just east of Norkolk Island....at 11pm
now that interesting....if i now moves SSE things will get interesting up this way
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Doing odd things thats for sure :-k .

Is it hot and muggy tonight or what? I cant sleep lol.
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Very still here at Tawa now. The day's high temp of 27.8 was late at 4:03 p.m.
Humidity began climbing again at 5 p.m. (now 85%) and the temperature slid down during the evening to 18.
Dewpoint now 15.6
Took the opportunity to give the grounds a good soaking late evening to give them a head start on soaking up tomorrow's rain, just in case this ornery cyclone decides to hang around longer than planned. Wouldn't want to waste a wet bonus in run-off.
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i think the satellite did one of its lurches which made it look like it stopped
but it certainly has slow down alot and is now moving more south to SSW
and a nice front rain band is sliding over northland now from the NE, and slowly moving down into the auckland area , so alot of rain still to come :)
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Any rain helps. We had 2.6mm last hr in Grey Lynn. Thats a soaking by this summers standards!

I don't see much opportunity for thunderstorms in this system unless we get some hot temperatures over land. The low will pass over Canterbury early tomorrow afternoon southerly buster which could be thundery if temperatures get hot enough.

Looking ahead convection wise, I am seeing a good chance of thunderstorms/hail for east Otago/Dunedin on Wednesday afternoon as a pulse of polar air moves through, these may make it into south Canterbury. And we might be lucky to see some thunderstorms over the Waikato Thursday afternoon.

Did anyone else notice TV1 broadcast the wrong forecast temps last night, they must have been from another day.
The giveaway was a forecast min of 15C at Whangarei etc.
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rather disappointed i must say. not that amazing event i was hoping for.
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Not even half a damn mm here yet. Does look like (very tropical looking low clouds) at the moment if it heats up there will be heavy convective showers. Just saw on breakfast auckland is getting nice rain.
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i cant see that its going to be crossing canterbury tomorrow..maybe more central NZ late tomorrow?
it has slowed down too much...which is good for us....as it means this rain band is going to hang around
Raining very nicely here now
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