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Thanks for editing my post guys.. blah.
Amazing rainfall here this afternoon & hasnt let up, dont look like it will either.

Front retreated south off central Auckland mid afternoon with quite a nice gust front moving in from the NW

Nice captures Spwill and NZstorm!
Update: It seems the Front is shifting back into the Waikato as it has started raining here again!
That will pose a real threat for flooding for southern Auckland and northern Waikato!

Look at that blob of red!

blob of purple on the 7 min radar. pukekohe has been smashed all day. started raining here again at 4.30 and hasnt let off since. going to buket down soon going by the radar. going to be horrendous flooding tomorrow morning. gutted im going to the snow tonight cuz id love to see how bad the flooding gets. thismorning was good flooding. tomorrow well that has the potential to beat the feb o4 or o3 when ever it was flood we had here if we get another 40mm tonight.

After today's rain, I noticed this month has been the wettest I've recorded here for 2 years (160mm so far)

Certainly seems to be some rain around particularly up round South Auckland and Coromandel at the moment.
When is the next snow storm im not picking up much on met vuw at all, but could be just me missing stuff.

Probably not till a high sits under the aussie bight.

Talbotm wrote: When is the next snow storm im not picking up much on met vuw at all, but could be just me missing stuff.

David wrote:After today's rain, I noticed this month has been the wettest I've recorded here for 2 years (160mm so far)

Wow, you're so far ahead of me! Only 101 mm here in Grey Lynn

We wouldnt mind a little sun now,also thunder is lacking too,cant get any washing done properly,as even the dry days had sparodic light showers tues-thurs,today windows condensated end on end 1st time this year.

Talbotm wrote:Certainly seems to be some rain around particularly up round South Auckland and Coromandel at the moment.
When is the next snow storm im not picking up much on met vuw at all, but could be just me missing stuff.

jamie.h wrote:blob of purple on the 7 min radar. pukekohe has been smashed all day.

Youre not kidding, it was absolutely non stop torrential from about 10am onwards & didnt let up, will find out how much we go when the farmer gets here but judging by the amount of water in the paddocks just afer the peak & my own front lawn turned into a lake (which I had never seen before in all the time here) we must have got damn close to triple figures in the gauge, if not over.

Phenominal rain, hardest & most prolonged I have seen here yet.
Sun now please.. (ps nice fog earlier, just starting to burn off now)

Some big totals of that Environment Waikato site. Castle Rock on the Coromandal had 110mm in 6hrs with a storm total of 200mm. Much of northern Waikato looked to have had storm totals of over 100mm (30hr period). Goes to show what a bit of cold unstable air can do.

This site in the Franklin District recorded about 97mm yesterday
http://maps.auckland.govt.nz/hydrotel4/ ... tchment=28

Only 101 mm here in Grey Lynn

Herald shows 152.6mm for Auckland, I think that is from the Airport with 37mm from yesterdays front.

Rain band slowly edging closer and into Canterbury soon, with some good heavy falls up around Blenhiem area.

Some quite nice looking Cu around Auckland today, very cold air up top.

Drizzle persisting here in Halswell. Been out twice today, once into riccarton and the other just on other side of town and very little drizzle out those ways, much lighter anyways. The radar shows that a little tiny spot has been sitting on Halswell most of the morning. 8mm so far today.

Yeah hasnt been any drizzle here for much of the day, even had some sunny breaks at lunchtime.
But now a misty drizzle has started and down to 7.8C now.

Damage from yesterday was only 60mm.. seemed a hell of a lot more than that, where I get my firewood from, ol mate there said it was the heaviest prolonged rain he had seen in over a decade & pointed out to the stream which had debris all over the fence, he was down there patching it up. Further south into pukke was 75 & 90mm respectively on the other farms, but for this one alone have cracked 220mm for the month including yesterday. Farmer said the big 3 hour downpour a few months back during that week of thunderies which flooded out Pukke (cant find the thread but people relevant to it know where it is) had over 100mm dumped in that time, barely 5 kms S of here it happened but again I dont recall such intensitys in the time Ive been here.

Doing a post data report for my own benefit.
Some very nice TCu & Cb's around atm, been raining here lightly for around 30 mins.

The mid winter sunshine was strong enough today to produce some nice towering Cu and a few weak showers but it stayed dry around. We also had some morning fog.

Nice photos, Mt Eden is a great place to photograph weather.
Up in Hanmer last night / this morning, alot of surface flooding about in paddocks and many streams that are normally a trickle pretty full to over flowing.

On Thurs spwill wrote:I think passsing clouds for Auckland Saturday night.

Great view and clear skies here tonight. Nice Shot spwill

Was a good view indeed, the guys in Oz got some great photos too.

Just had a brief hail shower here with accompanying heavy rain, some pretty nice looking coldies marching in.

'Coldies' is a great name for those wintry cb's.

The unstable front in the Tasman moves in tomorrow but current indications are thats its instability will weaken as it approaches. Could be isolated ts for Taranaki and Waitomo though.