Final week of August- wet?

[Razor]

Another wet spell looming for those who don't need it- esepcially us here in Canty. Its a few days out yet but could be a reasonably significant event to end winter from Sunday onwards for the easter seaboard of the South Island, going by the looks of the models and forecasts

[snowstormwatcher]

Crt weather are forcasting 40 to 90mm from sunday through to tuesday for Canterbury. Looking quite cold as well so possibly some more heavy snow for inland canterbury.

[Richard]

40 to 90mm oh dear

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

I don't think that the overall winter has been all that wet, I think it has something to do with the persistent cloud cover and the lack of weather systems moving through, that sort of hasn't cleared the 'clagg' away, which has made the winter seem to be as wet as what it has been?


JohnGaul
NZThS

[Razor]

I don't think that the overall winter has been all that wet, I think it has something to do with the persistent cloud cover and the lack of weather systems moving through, that sort of hasn't cleared the 'clagg' away, which has made the winter seem to be as wet as what it has been?


JohnGaul
NZThS

Can't agree John. Roughly 400mm in the past 3 months here in town, thats pretty wet for ChCh.

[Richard]

I don't think that the overall winter has been all that wet, I think it has something to do with the persistent cloud cover and the lack of weather systems moving through, that sort of hasn't cleared the 'clagg' away, which has made the winter seem to be as wet as what it has been?


JohnGaul
NZThS

Can't agree John. Roughly 400mm in the past 3 months here in town, thats pretty wet for ChCh.

I agree with Razer,its been wetter than normal here at least,our water table is the highest ive seen it in the 10 years living here at 50 cm

[cantygal]

I'm up the road in Kirwee and this is the wettest I've seen it for many years.

[Dean.]

Crt weather are forcasting 40 to 90mm from sunday through to tuesday for Canterbury. Looking quite cold as well so possibly some more heavy snow for inland canterbury.

Great snow set up for the skifields !
Though I doubt there will be much below 700 metres looking at GFS,but that could change.
Stunning day in Mid Canterbury!

[Razor]

Its been stripped right back now to more manageable levels based on Blueskies predictions, models have shifted a bit too.

[TonyT]

Expect the predicted totals to oscillate a bit over the next few days...

[Razor]

Expect the predicted totals to oscillate a bit over the next few days...

Cheers Tony, as per the norm

Reminds me of a joke...How do you tittilate an ocsillot?

[spwill]

I don't think that the overall winter has been all that wet, I think it has something to do with the persistent cloud cover and the lack of weather systems moving through, that sort of hasn't cleared the 'clagg' away, which has made the winter seem to be as wet as what it has been?


JohnGaul
NZThS

Can't agree John. Roughly 400mm in the past 3 months here in town, thats pretty wet for ChCh.

You must be including May, Winter will be around 230mm to date. Auckland and Wellington will be over 400mm for the winter.

[jamie]

off my head we will be over 500mm for the winter. 260 for June, about 100 for July and 160 and counting for August

[Storm Struck]

Ive recorded 330mm since 1st June and i am sure many other places will fall close to that if not even more, just go back to Tonys posting RE the rainfall totals hes had in Amberley.
Yes SPwill you would normally expect our totals to be lower but we have had alot of rain this winter, sometimes we had stints of 3-4 days of wet and then 2 dry days and back into rain again.
I would imagine we will beat our annual average rainfall for here.

[iomkiwi]

310mm for me so far this month - plus 179mm in both June and July.
This month is easily my wettest on record (but I've only had records for a few years)

[Razor]

Can't agree John. Roughly 400mm in the past 3 months here in town, thats pretty wet for ChCh.

You must be including May, Winter will be around 230mm to date. Auckland and Wellington will be over 400mm for the winter.

Yes, the last three months does capture the late May event (given its still August), which really heralded the start of our winter.

[spwill]

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Yes, the last three months does capture the late May event (given its still August), which really heralded the start of our winter.

The Winter summary wont include May but it is probably fair to say you had an early start to winter in Christchurch.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

non event now

[Razor]

So far only 10mm here, but some decent convection out there right now as commented on other threads- and the 3pm rain radar looks interesting, seems to be wrapping around and approaching the coast and Peninsula quite rapidly? Or is it just me imagining things?

[snowstormwatcher]

Steady rain here since late last night 17mm so far. Looks like most of the rain is over now just a few small showers on the rain radar. Light snow at Tekapo this morning.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Expect good rain soon going by 4pm radar

[Razor]

Ohhhh yes its wrapped around nicely hasn't it?