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Here is a bit of footage from the Cricket

http://www.3news.co.nz/Black-Caps-survi ... fault.aspx

http://www.3news.co.nz/Gale-force-winds ... fault.aspx

Why did they put the covers out? was it going to rain?

JohnGaul
NZThS

Nice to see another mad dog NW again today, although didnt pick up to gale force until around 3pm.
I noticed that punchy CU to the W-SW this afternoon, actually looked like a good CB developing or even initial thoughts were it was a thunderstorm.
Braced for the next NW front on Wednesday.

The cold system is still on the cards for Wednesday. Looking like Taranaki will be a good spot for some thunder action on the cold front. Storms will have squalls to 50kts and hail but these are unlikely to reach Auckland.

Jasestorm wrote:Nice to see another mad dog NW again today, although didnt pick up to gale force until around 3pm.
I noticed that punchy CU to the W-SW this afternoon, actually looked like a good CB developing or even initial thoughts were it was a thunderstorm.
Braced for the next NW front on Wednesday.

Yes. I saw those Cu s to the WSW just south of the TC, but not really interested as there was no substantial development to them. They died away just before the dry and only wind change to the SW , then SE around 6pm.
Nice to see you have moved into town but will miss your reports from Kaiapoi .

JohnGaul
NZThS

12Z gfs shows some instability with the slow moving front over Auckland/Northland Wednesday morning so looks to be an embedded thunder risk with that now as it crosses.

NZstorm wrote:12Z gfs shows some instability with the slow moving front over Auckland/Northland Wednesday morning so looks to be an embedded thunder risk with that now as it crosses.

Hope so... anyway... drizzle has finally arrived in the FN - currently 21 C out..

I gotta say the front going over us at the moment is pathetic!

Think theres more in the tasman tomorrow...Good finally to get a decent wind direction at last albeit 2 days.

Yes, tomorrow looks good for rain with the trough moving in, current Auckland dewpoints a moist 18C.

David wrote:I gotta say the front going over us at the moment is pathetic!

Yeah, wasn't very impressed with the massive 0.2mm we received, tomorrow is looking much better!

I think the further south you were the better (rainfall totals from the front). I got 3.0mm (but in all honesty that isnt much)

Long way out but models last 3 days vieing towards easter with a NE flow with a low in the tasman though easily it can change.Sun. must be an easterly surge looking at the charts.

Nice day here in Christchurch today! warmed up nicely with not much wind really.
Tomorrow for me could be interesting afternoon with Southerly change moving up with a chance thunder if conditions can be set up right.

Winds were generally light this morning from the N-NW direction, then got abit more gusty in the afternoon.
I like tomorrows set up in the fact that its lower pressure and a small low develops just SE of BP, however i dont like the dry Gale NW beforehand.
So theres a reasonable chance there 50/50 and MS putting up a moderate risk is certainly right on the button.
We shall see, strong gusty NW out there at the moment and 17C.

Heavy rain here for the last half hour big drops too, must be some spill over rain from the coast.

melja wrote:Heavy rain here for the last half hour big drops too, must be some spill over rain from the coast.

Morning melja,

The HEAVY sound of RAIN woke me up at exactly 07:30hrs - the sound of it's drumming on the roof was music to my ears...

Snapped a few pics of the monring skies earlier on this morning... all taken between 07:37hrs - 07:47hrs, currently 19C out skies have cleared sun's shinning and there's a light fresh NW.

few more pic's of FN skies this morning.

Currently drizzling here because the air is saturated. Not too common occurrence when that happens here.

Only got 2.5mm but all in 25min.

Typical, NW rain is so unreliable here! The GFS sure was off on this one

good blob of rain heading towards the auckland area at the moment

This one might actually hit us here looks good

Erm... just checked the rain guage... and the rainfall amount reading for today was *cough* half of 1mm!!!!
still... each drop of rain is precious up here in this dry part of the country.

EVEN THE NEIGHBOURS ARE IMPRESSED

Anyone who doubts the severity of Northland's drought now has all the evidence possibly needed to support the view that it's a ripper.

Even the Australians have started paying attention, the land where a drought barely rates as news sending its reporters across the ditch to see Northland's big dry for themselves.

Among them is Liv Casben, of ABC News, who filed on Monday for the The Midday Report on channel ABC1.

In a piece called 'NZ's north suffers worst drought in 60 years,' she inspected the meagre trickle that is Kaitaia's sole source of water, the Awanui River.

above excerpt taken from The Northland Age Thurs, 25 Mar 2010.