General May Weather

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Tue 26/05/2009 16:43

Some heavy rain today over the top of Northland, 152mm at Kerikeri.

Manukau heads obs · Tue 26/05/2009 21:42

that seems an incredible amount of rain
any damage reports?

iomkiwi · Unread post by **iomkiwi** » Tue 26/05/2009 21:55

Manukau heads observer wrote:that seems an incredible amount of rain
any damage reports?

yeah 150mm in 12 hours made for a wet day, similar rates to when we had the two big floods in 2007, thank goodness it finally moved on around 5pm.

I went for a cruise around 1:30pm, a bit of localised surface flooding and rivers overflowing their banks in places, heard a rumour about one road being closed. Haven't heard how Kaeo fared, if they had similar rainfall amounts they would have had their town flooded again.

David · Unread post by **David** » Tue 26/05/2009 22:25

iomkiwi wrote:Haven't heard how Kaeo fared, if they had similar rainfall amounts they would have had their town flooded again.

According to Northland regional council Kaeo's rainfall was about 104mm today...

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Wed 27/05/2009 07:06

Thunderstorms/hail look on the cards for Northland, possibly north Auckland on Saturday. Will be able to make a more accurate prediciton by Friday.

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Wed 27/05/2009 09:49

Razor wrote:Well tommorow it will be 7 days since ChCh hit double figures.
A rude shock after some of the warm spells lately!

And still no sign of the sun...and no sign of double figures....maybe if the fog burns off later today we might be in luck.

9 days...?

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 27/05/2009 11:24

I see Dunedin Airport was on -3C at 9am.

Some blue sky over Ak today, a cool 14C, May is usually a mild month for Auckland with 18C days not uncommon.

David · Unread post by **David** » Wed 27/05/2009 17:33

spwill wrote:Some blue sky over Ak today, a cool 14C, May is usually a mild month for Auckland with 18C days not uncommon.

Reached 18Â° here today

waterboy · Unread post by **waterboy** » Wed 27/05/2009 20:27

The weather around Tekapo was awesome today. Pity about all the fog around Twizel! Man thats a foggy hole!!! Sorry Twizel but its TRUE!!!

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Wed 27/05/2009 22:53

Low cloud stuck around here for the majority of the day and remained rather cool with a NE breeze, some welcome sunny intervals from 1-3pm got the temperature up to 10C

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Tomorrow i think that cloud will dissapear altogether as theres a slight upper SW flow.
Hey Waterboy did it snow in Tekapo on Saturday because the webcams looked like a winter wonderland

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melja · Unread post by **melja** » Thu 28/05/2009 07:26

I see philip duncan is saying on weather watch that mt hutt is the first skifield to open for the season

was there not one in the north island that has been open for a few weeks but is now closed again

maybe check the facts before writing.

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Thu 28/05/2009 08:18

melja wrote:I see philip duncan is saying on weather watch that mt hutt is the first skifield to open for the season was there not one in the north island that has been open for a few weeks but is now closed again maybe check the facts before writing.

Which one was that? Turoa and Whakapapa don't open till the 20th and 27th respectively.

Manukau heads obs · Thu 28/05/2009 08:26

was there not one in the north island that has been open for a few weeks but is now closed again

I find that hard to believe
maybe open for sightseeing?
mind you, i remember going to see snow at the top of the bruce in the may school holidays when at primary school (wet snow and it was drizzling)

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Thu 28/05/2009 09:05

Yes the small club feild on Mt Taranaki has been open for 2 or 3 weeks I understand

As for us here...we've snapped our 9 day streak of single digit temps, and for the first time since last Tuesday I can see the sun!!!!

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Thu 28/05/2009 09:06

was there not one in the north island that has been open for a few weeks but is now closed again

Yes, Manganui field on Mt Taranaki did open a couple of weeks back, saw this on TV ONE news, they were thrilled to be the first to open for the 09 season.

Better weather today for NZ, lovely morning in Auckland.

RWood · Unread post by **RWood** » Thu 28/05/2009 09:14

waterboy wrote:The weather around Tekapo was awesome today. Pity about all the fog around Twizel! Man thats a foggy hole!!! Sorry Twizel but its TRUE!!!

Is such triumphalism necessary? It's better left in the revolting political blog correspondence that the two large newspaper chains support. I like Tekapo a lot but nowhere's perfect - if Gary were still here he'd have a go at you.

RWood · Unread post by **RWood** » Thu 28/05/2009 09:16

Sunshine this morning after 5 straight overcast days - southerly storm followed by a "drizzler", which would rate dead last in my preference list for weather scenarios around these parts.

Tornado Tim · Unread post by **Tornado Tim** » Thu 28/05/2009 09:27

Low of 2.1Â°C here with Very mild Fog.
Still Humidity is at 100%

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Thu 28/05/2009 15:10

I like Tekapo a lot but nowhere's perfect

A good place to stop for Petrol.

Like this weather today, sunny 17C.

Inny Binny · Unread post by **Inny Binny** » Thu 28/05/2009 17:02

Well, the sun didn't last long...back to low cloud and fog very quickly today.

melja · Unread post by **melja** » Thu 28/05/2009 17:15

spwill wrote:
I like Tekapo a lot but nowhere's perfect

A good place to stop for Petrol.

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I never stop there for petrol its to dear, twizel is a lot cheaper.

tgsnoopy · Unread post by **tgsnoopy** » Thu 28/05/2009 18:57

Just be grateful it's not as expensive as Milford Sound (Ouch).

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Thu 28/05/2009 20:01

Inny Binny wrote:Well, the sun didn't last long...back to low cloud and fog very quickly today.

Yeah. It came in on a rodent light southerly

JohnGaul
NZThS

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Fri 29/05/2009 00:19

It did come in very fast as i remember looking at the sun setting around half 5 to the west and then 10 minutes later it was overcast and very bleak.
The temperature dropped quickly too from 12C to around 8C with a breezy southerly, almost like freezing fog $\:D/$ .
Other than that it was great to see the sunshine again.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Fri 29/05/2009 07:11

Lifted index chart for Saturday night over NZ. Looks like some marginal deep layer instability over the upper North Island due to the cold trough/modest low level moisture. I can't see much dynamics with this but should be a few flashes/rumbles in the west of Auckland Saturday night. Also worth mentioning an isolated embedded thunderstorm risk with that front during Saturday.

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