Tasman low 20-23rd July

[David]

31mm rain here since about 1pm yesterday

[Vertigo]

quite a storm here, overnight. lovely driving rain and trees being blown around. i do like a good strong low like this.

[David]

31mm rain here since about 1pm yesterday

More like 37mm (from my manual rain gauge) - been having some problems with under-reading Davis gauge

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Looks so dark out there yet no rain. The band is well to the SE now. According to the models it should be quite persistent rain today and gradually becoming heavier. That band must be about to turn around and intensify.

[Razor]

Yeah sure is dark A lull since about 8.30 here in town. Looks damned wet tonight/ tomorrow, could cause some issues. I'm surprised there isn't a full warning out yet.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Yeah sure is dark A lull since about 8.30 here in town. Looks damned wet tonight/ tomorrow, could cause some issues. I'm surprised there isn't a full warning out yet.

Totally agree! I see they have cancelled one in the updated weather warnings. Just driving down the road before and water in paddocks is quite incredible from the additional 10-15mm weve had.

[Razor]

Metservice 'watch' from last night indicated it would be reviewed by 9am this morning, so presumably something is imminent in terms of an update

[Razor]

Right on cue...haha

Canterbury folk will well know to look out though, we do not need the "metservice warnable threshold' to be met for significant problems right now. 20-30mm will be enough for flooding with current water tables so high

Severe Weather Watch
Valid to: 9:30am Friday 23 July 2010


SEVERE WEATHER WATCH FOR BAY OF PLENTY, CANTERBURY AND KAIKOURA
ISSUED BY METSERVICE AT 0930hrs 22-Jul-2010

HEAVY RAIN FOR THE RANGES OF BAY OF PLENTY EASING THIS AFTERNOON

A PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN ABOUT CANTERBURY AND KAIKOURA COAST THIS
EVENING AND FRIDAY

A front is expected to move eastwards over the Bay of Plenty this
afternoon, preceded by a moist northeast flow and brief heavy rain.
It looks unlikely rainfall there will approach warning amounts.

The front is expected to become slow moving over the eastern South
Island later today, before drifting slowly northwards during Friday.
This is likely to bring a period of heavy rain to the Canterbury
foothills and to the Kaikoura Coast in a southeast flow, this evening
and Friday. Rainfall amounts may approach warning criteria in some
places.

The watch for heavy rain in northern Marlborough and the Coromandel
Peninsula is now lifted.

This Watch will be reviewed by 9PM THURSDAY 22ND JULY
Forecast prepared by: HEATH GULLERY

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Metservice 'watch' from last night indicated it would be reviewed by 9am this morning, so presumably something is imminent in terms of an update

Was updated at 930am now and they have kept it as a watch and not a warning. Surely they should be issuing the warning now if its valid for tonight and tomorrow....

Some drizzle is picking up again.

[spwill]

Some chilled air over the south of NZ, Gore still below 0C, -0.7C, Invercargill on 1.3C.

Mild humid flow over the top of NZ with 14C dewpoints, overcast high cloud currently but any sunshine today should lead to some very mild temps

[NZstorm]

Not a bad day in Auckland, 17C with high cloud. Looks like a trough moves across tonight with a heavy shower risk.

[Tornado Tim]

17°C and a DP of 15°C outside atm with towering cumulus, that temp/dp is very unusual for winter!

If this continues into spring which it looks like it will because of the developing La Nina, thunderstorms would be more likely esp if we have a few sub tropic lows come our way or surface lows

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Misty light drizzle all day except for about half an hour earlier this morning. Rain should pick up from after 6pm im thinking and should be quite a wet 24 hours.

3pm: Drizzle starting to pick up now.

[Vertigo]

Not a bad day in Auckland, 17C with high cloud. Looks like a trough moves across tonight with a heavy shower risk.

incoming now - looks like a thunder risk in it. (not happy, took a sick day today and started de-rusting my car).

[snowstormwatcher]

This system has been a bit of a non event here so far no rain here today and only 0.5mm overnight. Air pressures to high for any heavy rain for this area still 1016hpa here for any real rain to eventuate it would need to drop at least 10-15 hpa.

[Razor]

Not a bad day in Auckland, 17C with high cloud. Looks like a trough moves across tonight with a heavy shower risk.

incoming now - looks like a thunder risk in it. (not happy, took a sick day today and started de-rusting my car).

I hope you got a doctors note for your employer

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

You can see when ya run the loops now that the band / flow is starting to do a turn to the SE

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Dull and grey and misty here. Real Scottish weather.

JohnGaul
NZThS

[Michael]

We havent had that for a while.as long as they stay away
Anyway tomorrow has -25 at 500hpa over auckland tomorrow so something could happen.

Dull and grey and misty here. Real Scottish weather.

JohnGaul
NZThS

[NZstorm]

Very heavy shower here atm.

[Richard]

Dull and grey and misty here. Real Scottish weather.

JohnGaul
NZThS

My turn for a bit sun today,though not a lot,could feel a bit of warmth when it did too.

[snowstormwatcher]

Heavy drizzle has just started up here and a southeast brezze is also starting to develop.

[David]

Very heavy shower here atm.

Just got it here, when the SKY signal is lost it's a good indicator there's some real heavy stuff nearby! It arrived seconds later, peak instantaneous rate here reached 87mm/hr

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Looks like this system doesnt last well into tomorrow anymore. Looks to lose sting early morning.

[melja]

Back to rain here again since 5pm with a current rate of 1.5mm/h so only light but still rain and not drizzle.