Tasman lows from 16th December onwards

[Storm Struck]

Up to 10mm here but it sure has been humid, feels more like being on the west coast.
Sun has been out for awhile now and to 22C, with 85% humidity.
I did notice some CU earlier on and now theres darker looking glaciated showers to the west from here so possibly a heavy shower soon.
So the interesting weather begins finally

[David]

This rain is just so nice to listen to and relax 6mm last hour

[Tim S]

Good to hear I am not the only one getting some good falls. That band that went through Auckland really seemed to strengthen considerably as it passed through, or was that just the radar picking it up better?

I'll call my final total at 77.6mm as I haven't registered any significant rain for almost 3 hours, so that fall is from 1pm yesterday to 6pm today. Falls in this region seem to be fairly well spread with everywhere on the coastal plain in Tasman Bay getting at least 50mm and higher areas up to 200mm (but mostly 120-150mm).

Todays rain is the highest 24hr total I have seen since Perth got 120mm in a night, not counting a storm chase were I witnessed the aftermath of 90mm in 2 hours as I wasn't actually there for most of it!

[Manukau heads obs]

heavy rain (sounded heavy on the caravan roof) here during the night in Inglewood, north taranaki...do not know any totals at this stage for north taranaki...
we did not get as much as the City got from that Kaipara rain area, it must have weakened..

[NZstorm]

Overcast with fog here this morning and just heard thunder to the north. Temp 20C dp 20C.

[David]

Overcast with fog here this morning and just heard thunder to the north. Temp 20C dp 20C.

Heard that out east too. What a nice sound to wake up to Seems it was an isolated rumble though

[ricky]

Yes, great to be woken by the sound of thunder

[Nev]

Yes, those rumbles well heard here too.

Weak thunderstorm activity showing near Kaipara last hr and around 2pm this afternoon, nice area of rain has developed over southern parts of Northland...

I see Dargaville recorded 118mm of rain in 9 hours yesterday, 85mm of which fell in the 3 hours from 1pm to 4pm (43mm in one hour).

24mm here in the last 48 hours.

[Richard]

whoo thats so much in a short time,well thats the end of the dry period up that way then

[tgsnoopy]

Very Foggy outside this morning. Unusual for Tauranga.
Fingers crossed for an interesting afternoon this afternoon.

[jamie]

Awww far out. Seems everyone is getting rain, i still have only had 14mm for december (October 36mm, november 28mm) just ridiculous.

bring on the thunder for the day. would love to hear some!

[Michael]

Inglewood north taranaki?,its south of New Plymouth.Poured down here for 1/2 hour,the joy of wet cats on your laps.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Awww far out. Seems everyone is getting rain, i still have only had 14mm for december (October 36mm, november 28mm) just ridiculous.

bring on the thunder for the day. would love to hear some!

13mm here in December, 51mm in November, October 18mm.

Quite close rainfall over the last 3 months between us. 82mm for me. 78mm for you Oct - Dec 18th.

By the way already 25.2 degrees at 820am here. Its mostly cloudy with the sun sneaking through at the moment. In for a stinker into the 30's if we get long sunny spells!

[Manukau heads obs]

way to go dargaville!
in the clouds here in naki too
big rain band moving south through the hauraki gulf
waikato should catch that one today
lots of frontal bands in the tasman!

[Tim S]

very heavy rain here in Nelson with 11.4mm here in the last 20mins. A fair bit of heavy stuff earlier this morning means I have had 43.2mm since just before 1am. Plenty more to come too looking by the radar, after these heavy showers pass we'll get a nice long period of heavy rain.

No heavy rain warning from MS though, which is surprising given the rainfall intensities have been reaching 15mm/hr since 3am here.