TC Ivy

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sun 29/02/2004 00:01

About 20mm here last hour.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sun 29/02/2004 00:13

I notice Ricky's Grey Lynn station has had 25.7mm last hour.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sun 29/02/2004 00:31

Much lighter winds now with mod rain. Have had two big Squally Downpours here this Evening.

GraemeWi · Unread post by **GraemeWi** » Sun 29/02/2004 07:18

I only got 17mm from 5pm - 7am. I had my scanner on overnight and heard many reports of arcing powerlines, trees down on roads, and severly flooded roads (with water so deep and rough that divers were briefly considered for mounting a rescue operation!)

The latest satellite image shows the cyclone to have fallen apart overnight, and quite a way off to the east. It's very calm here, albeit with a low barometer reading of 996mb and still trending downwards.

G

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Sun 29/02/2004 08:06

Light breeze now gone to the south Still humid

Manukau heads obs · Sun 29/02/2004 08:44

it is still packing a real punch....
it it was closer to the Northland, then it would do damage!
Southerly winds here now, up to 25 knots,increasing, and drizzle

see
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/tedm/C ... eather.htm
for a station closet to it at the moment

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sun 29/02/2004 09:02

It has been a humid calm morning (dp20C) but a southwesterly with drizzly rain is just starting to kick in. Cricket is defanetly a washout. Series win to NZ. $\:D/$

Over 100mm fell in many areas yesterday. For the whole rainfall event(most of it in the 24hrs Saturday) Auckland airport 111mm, Whitianga 128mm, New Plymouth 109mm. I notice New Plymouth's February rainfall is 409mm. Auckland 271mm. Ofcoarse, the month is not quite finished yet.

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Sun 29/02/2004 09:49

NZstorm wrote:It has been a humid calm morning (dp20C) but a southwesterly with drizzly rain is just starting to kick in. Cricket is defanetly a washout. Series win to NZ. $\:D/$

Some unhappy Efreekorners around, but they will claim that the NZ team only won by default...

Over 100mm fell in many areas yesterday. For the whole rainfall event(most of it in the 24hrs Saturday) Auckland airport 111mm, Whitianga 128mm, New Plymouth 109mm. I notice New Plymouth's February rainfall is 409mm. Auckland 271mm. Ofcoarse, the month is not quite finished yet.

We've had 23mm since midnight Friday/Saturday. It's looking spectacularly green around here right now.

Manukau heads obs · Sun 29/02/2004 10:13

ssw slowly increading here, we are getting the edge of IVY
maybe now that ivy has lost its central cloud, it will spread itself out as the wind decreases, and so we will get some strong winds here after all?
(now up to 30 knots)

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Sun 29/02/2004 10:14

On the latest chart it has "filled in" to 979 from 955 overnight but we will get trmendous gales as it moves to the SE

Manukau heads obs · Sun 29/02/2004 10:19

http://www.tokaanuskihire.co.nz/whakata ... eather.htm
the next station in the line of fire, whakatane
notice the barometer dropping real fast!
(note, the rain does not work on that station (cows ate the cable) and the windspeed reports bad values at times (he needs to replace a cable with a shielded one)

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Sun 29/02/2004 10:43

Its now just turning into a boring old low with gale force SW for us on its top end

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sun 29/02/2004 11:07

I was hoping to wander down to Eden Park today to watch the Cricket but with some light rain about that looks doubtful. 10am Radar dose not look to bad so may be a game might still happen.

Looks like some heavy rain for Bay of Plenty + East Cape area today.
That trough East of Australia this morning has a lot of Lightning coming of it so might be one to watch.
Looking forward to the big high later in the week.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sun 29/02/2004 11:41

may be a game might still happen.

I can just see Eden Park through the drizzle from here. Anyway, we don't want the game to go ahead, better to have the guaranteed series win.

It looks to have stopped raining on the Coromandal. 200mm at Castle Rock and 290mm at The Pinnacles. And Hunua area got 150mm. Would be a good day to look at the Hunua falls. (I was up there two weekends back).

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sun 29/02/2004 12:03

A friend at Waipu tells me the Waves there this morning are 3 metres high .

Manukau heads obs · Sun 29/02/2004 14:40

HICKS BAY S 28 19.9 18.5 980.4 -12.2

thats a 12.2 hpa drop in 3 hours!

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sun 29/02/2004 20:07

Ah well... in the words of Jim Hickey "She's a Gone-burger", but at least it did leave a bit of an impression to the NI.
Thank goodness I don't live in the North Island but I do pity the people who suffered loss in the NI from this very unusual February, weather -wize!

Boring day here weather-wize considering the situation

I was morris dancing out at the vintage settlement of Barhill today.
Overcast skies with drizzly weather but when we danced the sun came out, well very briefly

Remaining mostly cloudy for the rest of the day but it is clearing up now, boringly despite a slow rising low barometer.

JohnGaul
NZTS

JohnGaul
NZTS

Manukau heads obs · Sun 29/02/2004 20:40

hats off to the met service for picking the correct model to stand by !

TonyT · Unread post by **TonyT** » Sun 29/02/2004 21:40

Manukau heads observer wrote:hats off to the met service for picking the correct model to stand by !

They've all been saying the same thing for the last few days...

Manukau heads obs · Sun 29/02/2004 21:50

actualy, some wanted to have it do a duck, instead of a dive, according to bob mcdavitt, when i was talking to him

in the end it went straight as an arrow, except for some wobbles at times

TonyT · Unread post by **TonyT** » Mon 01/03/2004 08:54

Manukau heads observer wrote:actualy, some wanted to have it do a duck, instead of a dive, according to bob mcdavitt, when i was talking to him
in the end it went straight as an arrow, except for some wobbles at times

Sounds like some quackery to me

Manukau heads obs · Mon 01/03/2004 09:01

whats your problem tony?
get it off your chest man!
I mean, i give credit were its due (i think they did a good job with this cyclone, in their predicitons, but i also criticism the met service when its due to!)
whats the story here?

TonyT · Unread post by **TonyT** » Mon 01/03/2004 10:58

Manukau heads observer wrote:whats your problem tony?
get it off your chest man!
I mean, i give credit were its due (i think they did a good job with this cyclone, in their predicitons, but i also criticism the met service when its due to!)
whats the story here?

I dont think there's a story here - you missed the pun, but thats OK. And my previous point is that it not hard to pick the right model to go with when, about 48 hours out from the event, they all say the same thing. IIRC you were the only person expecting (or was that wanting?) the cyclone to move south instead of southeast. Perhaps your credit should be extended to the modellers?

Thunder · Unread post by **Thunder** » Mon 01/03/2004 11:29

I got ya Tony!! $\:D/$

Manukau heads obs · Mon 01/03/2004 12:29

Hi
yes, I was wrong, my bad,but, yes, it would have been exciting for it to come closer
I like exciting wild weather
is there anything wrong with that?
(but yes its not good too when people/property are hurt/damaged)

but, also TC's can do unpredictable things, especialy as they become extra tropical, so i think it was prudent to watch it very closely and not sit back and expect it to do as the models say exactly
surely someone must be on my side with that?