Wet Week for the South Island

mikestormchaser · Unread post by **mikestormchaser** » Wed 30/07/2008 22:29

Christchurch gets abit of everything when you think about it Carrot, 50/50 whats good about our weather here is when we get something exciting its normally pretty big!
steady rain here for most of the night, got heavy for a time but since then nothing special and no wind t speak of hmm werid!

CHCH Weather Chaser · Wed 30/07/2008 22:58

Still heaps of rain to come for CHCH so dont worry and the latest rain radar shows heavy stuff approaching. Latest warnings from metservice says from the hours 8pm - 5pm thurs. So 3 hours down still another 16 to go!!!

melja · Unread post by **melja** » Wed 30/07/2008 23:14

26mm now and hevens have just opened up again with 13.3mm/h being recorded now and wind gusting 54kph.

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Wed 30/07/2008 23:16

90mm at Cheviot allready, falling at up tp 20mm/hour, keep this up and they will be breaking 200mm++

CHCH Weather Chaser · Wed 30/07/2008 23:17

12 mm here in halswell but rain starting to get heavier. Hopefully we get heaps in the night. wake up to 50mm more or so

trickytiger · Unread post by **trickytiger** » Wed 30/07/2008 23:18

11pm radar does show a lot of heavy rain headed for ChCh, even some heavy rain headed for temuka and timaru, which I was thinking was going to miss temuka a few minutes ago but now looking likely to hit.

melja · Unread post by **melja** » Wed 30/07/2008 23:21

Yes some big rain in north cant, me thinks a river or to is gona flood and the huruni is now at over 1000 cumics! and rivers like the ashley are coming up fast to.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Wed 30/07/2008 23:22

Raining here quite steadily .. and calm
Temp at 10pm, still 6Âºc C

JohnGaul
NZTS

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Wed 30/07/2008 23:32

melja wrote:Yes some big rain in north cant, me thinks a river or to is gona flood and the huruni is now at over 1000 cumics! and rivers like the ashley are coming up fast to.

hmmm that 1 in ten year reading is actaully at the Mandamus site, not the SH1 reading.. so not quite at the worst levels yet but still very high!

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Wed 30/07/2008 23:34

Very steady here now edging on heavy, I can actually hear it on the roof now unlike before.
Sea is starting to get a good roar going and thats about 5-10mins drive from here.
Some interesting hours ahead then.

Cheers
Jason.

Inny Binny · Unread post by **Inny Binny** » Wed 30/07/2008 23:49

Definitely getting heavier now, pinging off the chimney quite a bit.

trickytiger · Unread post by **trickytiger** » Wed 30/07/2008 23:58

getting heavier as well, also looking like it's going to get heavier in chch also by looking at the rain radar

Inny Binny · Unread post by **Inny Binny** » Thu 31/07/2008 00:35

Is the Fendalton station broken or is it honestly raining that hard?

http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstat ... =ICANTERB8

Heavy rain here.

trickytiger · Unread post by **trickytiger** » Thu 31/07/2008 00:45

271.8mm wow that's a lot of rain, where abouts in chch is fendalton? don't know whether or not to believe it, but on the 12:36am radar there is a lot of heavy rain showing for chch

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Thu 31/07/2008 00:52

Sure is coming down heavy now, surface flooding evident in my backyard already.
Its also swung southerly now which is also why the rain has got heavier.
Cheers
Jason.

trickytiger · Unread post by **trickytiger** » Thu 31/07/2008 01:04

wind is still SE in Timaru, don't know about Temuka as I don't have a weather station yet... and don't know of any in my town so my closest readings I look at are in Timaru.

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Thu 31/07/2008 05:31

Inny Binny wrote:Is the Fendalton station broken or is it honestly raining that hard?

http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstat ... =ICANTERB8

Heavy rain here.

No its broken, has been for a while!

Only 20mm here so far today on top of the 13mm yeaterday. Cheviot still getting good a good fall 140mm for the storm so far. It looks like it might even clear for a period this morning then rain again.

CHCH Weather Chaser · Thu 31/07/2008 07:10

where is the rain for chch. 21mm thats it?!?!!? its stopped already

Hypno · Unread post by **Hypno** » Thu 31/07/2008 07:16

looks like some big swells from this as well http://www.niwascience.co.nz/services/free/waves

melja · Unread post by **melja** » Thu 31/07/2008 07:21

74mm so far in rangiora with water up to my door step.

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Thu 31/07/2008 07:27

See areas in sefton flooded with people evacuated. Also SH1 from Parnasses to Blenheim closed!! due to flooding and debris on the road.

gllitz · Unread post by **gllitz** » Thu 31/07/2008 07:42

MarkThomas wrote:where is the rain for chch. 21mm thats it?!?!!? its stopped already

I don't think we are done...more to come from looking at the SAT and radar loops...only 21 mm in my part of town...32 mm out at SG's place in Templeton...looks like areas in Canty north of the Waimakariri got hit the hardest with this system so far...(those cumec readings from the Hurunui were scary...)

TonyT · Unread post by **TonyT** » Thu 31/07/2008 07:48

115mm here for the storm so far, very heavy between midnight and 3am with rain rates in excess of 20mm/hr. Extensive flooding and washouts on roads around here, paddocks 90% under water.

trickytiger · Unread post by **trickytiger** » Thu 31/07/2008 07:52

more heavy rain coming, been between about 30-40mm here in Temuka since 2am this morning no signs of it easing yet.

Manukau heads obs · Thu 31/07/2008 08:17

CHCH itself would get some rain shadow from banks penin.?
looks like inland was heavier, with the rising ground orographic effect

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